- Composite cognition Cognition whose output emerges from a composite of layers: human + thinking model + AI + data + external memory. Criterion: subtracting a la...
- Cryptographic Power A proposed 5th category of social power (alongside Mann's IEMP): power whose rules are enforced by mathematics, not by an organization of pe...
- Extended Mind Clark and Chalmers' thesis (1998): the mind does not end at the boundary of the skull — an external resource that meets the conditions of av...
- Four waves of extension The historical sequence of cognitive extensions: writing (~5000 BCE, memory), print (~1450, distribution), the internet (~1990, access), AI/...
- Functional caste A durable social function defined by 3 criteria: function (what civilization buys from it), recruitment profile, and a lineage spanning mill...
- Hyperliquidity of intent A trait of the post-cognitive era: the road from idea to working prototype shrinks from months to hours. Execution stops being the scarce re...
- Post-cognitive era The phase of civilization in which cognition stops being a purely individual resource and becomes composite — human + thinking model + AI + ...
- Protocol-era operator A person who operates at the level of protocols, not individual applications: recognizes the moment when a new protocol changes the rules of...
- Skill-stack One of the 5 competence pillars of the protocol-era operator: Architect, Capital allocator, Interpreter, Orchestrator, Storyteller. An opera...