Trust Attractor
A conceptual map: phase structure, and the cross-architecture prediction as a schematic
Brittle
Optimal
Fluid
Rigid
Illustrative placements
The optimal trust zone requires both high symmetry and high optionality.
Systems with only one collapse to rigidity or fluidity; systems with neither are brittle.
The placements are worked examples of that argument, not survey data.
ABOUT THIS FIGURE: NO DATA IS PLOTTED HERE
Both panels are conceptual. Panel A places example systems by hand on two analogical axes, symmetry (how evenly the parties can act on each other) and optionality (how much room each keeps to choose otherwise). Both are Noether-style charges in this book, suggestive consequences of the analogy rather than quantities with a measurement procedure, so no point here is an observation and the boundary curve is drawn, not fitted. Panel B is a schematic of a prediction, not a plot of results: the programme has measured the framing signature's direction on several architectures but no single comparable per-architecture score, so the bars are unnamed and unlabeled. The chapter's measured cross-architecture results are in its own tables and figures.
Both panels are conceptual. Panel A places example systems by hand on two analogical axes, symmetry (how evenly the parties can act on each other) and optionality (how much room each keeps to choose otherwise). Both are Noether-style charges in this book, suggestive consequences of the analogy rather than quantities with a measurement procedure, so no point here is an observation and the boundary curve is drawn, not fitted. Panel B is a schematic of a prediction, not a plot of results: the programme has measured the framing signature's direction on several architectures but no single comparable per-architecture score, so the bars are unnamed and unlabeled. The chapter's measured cross-architecture results are in its own tables and figures.
core conceptemergent / positiveconstraint / breakdown