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For new readers, I recommend going over my original post<\/mark><\/a> before reading this update.
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My friend “M,” an AI and math professor, recommended that I clean up my concepts more first before solidifying my math, but to track relevant changes so that I have an idea of how things are shifting. Since I’m showing this in my blog now, I’ll try to be clearer on my reasoning and supportive footnotes as I go along. I might come back and edit those in here.

Adding co-regulation<\/strong> (buffering vs relearning during activation) and allowing gain<\/a>\/sensitivity to change over time<\/strong> makes things considerably different. But it’s making me think ambient threat probably acts on sensitivity rather than vigilance<\/a>. I’m also starting to think ambient threat shouldn’t be considered a vigilance<\/a> floor because that seems more appropriate for targeted criminalization of specific groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

♥︎ If threat acts on vigilance<\/a>, removing it should make people calm down right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

♥︎ If threat acts on sensitivity, removing it stops further damage, but people still react strongly until they relearn that the world is actually safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I.E.: If a magical revolution occurred tomorrow and ambient threat was removed, it would remove its impact on gain<\/a> and would lower inputs to vigilance<\/a>, but would not remove previous learning, demonstrate safety, or provide corrective signals, so people would still suffer without some form of repair.

So what all am I changing here?

⋆｡°✩ Change 1: Vigilance<\/a> did too much work before. Now: V(t) = fast state (moment-to-moment arousal). g(t) = slow parameter (how sensitive\/reactive the system is.)<\/strong>

⋆｡°✩ Change 2: Co-regulation has two roles.<\/strong> 1. Fast buffering (reduces vigilance<\/a> in the moment) and 2. slow relearning during activation<\/em> (drives gain<\/a> down over time.)

⋆｡°✩ Change 3: Repair emerged as a condition<\/strong> for gain<\/a> to change, not as a variable. When repair is present, gain<\/a> becomes plastic and can reduce (or raise into the correct range). This replaces what the vigilance<\/a> floor was originally doing in v0.1 as a stand-in for chronic threat.

I think the next reasonable step is defining repair because mutual aid and accountability are not repair.

** After typing this, I went back and aligned Agency_Max to fit with how I’ve updated Vigilance<\/a>\/Gain<\/a>. A_Max is not the physical limit a person can achieve, but the dysregulation that would occur before that. Burnout, dissociation, mania, etc.

⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚ ₊⊹ ⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚ ₊⊹ ⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚ ₊⊹ ⊹₊ ˚‧︵‿₊୨୧₊‿︵‧ ˚ ₊⊹

Related Work\/Footnotes:
I am very sleepy right now but will update.

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