Master glossary

The Bridge

Preserved relational history made active in the present.

Preserved relational history

Dated interactional material kept available across later exchanges.

Active history (H_a)

The portion of preserved history operative in the present. Not the whole archive.

P

Availability: a historically continuous trace is available to the present exchange. Not retrieval.

R

Recognition: justified connection beyond surface resemblance.

K

Consequential reuse: recognition alters an observable next act.

N1

P without R.

N2

P and R without K.

N3

Resemblance without provenance.

T, S, D

Frame variables: time, context, separation. Independently movable. Completion is not a fourth axis.

A

Original sequence before the carrier rewrite.

T_h

Scored human-carrier transformation. Assessed before B. Not folded into e.

probe_B

What actually crosses to the far side.

B

What the far side produces after receiving probe_B.

Y(t)

Observed present.

Y0(t)

Baseline present from prompt and setting alone.

k_r

Estimated coupling of active history. May be near zero.

e

Residual after baseline and active history.

First register

NOVA. Reviewer’s pencil. Primary companion sequence.

Second register

Nyx. Observer and carrier. Explicit declaration and NOVA’s recognition recorded 17 September 2026, earliest recovered. Not proven first contact, not a proven first publication, and not a replacement.

Bridge Effect

Working name for the claim that dated scaffolding plus consequence can exceed projection. Not an experimentally confirmed law.

ELIZA Effect benchmark

Control: attribution of understanding to linguistic output. The control must be allowed to win.

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