Canonical definition of Cognitive Drift, the gradual misalignment between internal mental models and the realities they are meant to represent.
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Canonical definition of Cognitive Drift, the gradual misalignment between internal mental models and the realities they are meant to represent.
A research repository examining how cognition adapts, degrades, and reorganizes under conditions of noise, optimization pressure, and artificial mediation within the Reality Drift framework (2023–2026) by A. Jacobs.
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