AIM Framework glossary
Channel-Count Asymmetry
Canonical definition
The architectural feature whereby the three components supplying direct input to the Decision Hub, being the Thinker, the Observer, and the Body Manager, each supply one channel (a physical channel count of one to one to one), but control over those channels is divided two to one in the Thinker’s favour, because the Thinker controls both its own direct ground-resolution input and the templates under which the Observer’s input is classified and sign-coded (the Observer computing Salience on the Thinker’s cached priors supplied through the Belief Register), while the Body Manager controls its own input, the one genuinely independent input, and the Observer controls none. The four derived consequences (the I-Supremacy Result, the A-Disadvantage, the I-Template Override Result, and the I-Corrective Asymmetry) follow from this control asymmetry rather than from any stipulated weighting. The fast-layer formalisation is at Appendix A.5.9.
Explanation
Three signals reach the part of the mind that picks the action, one each from the body, the reasoning self, and the social-comparison faculty. It looks like a fair three-way vote, but it is not, because the social-comparison faculty has no opinions of its own. It reads what other people are doing only through the categories the reasoning self has already fed it. So the reasoning self effectively holds two of the three votes and the body holds one, which is why the body’s signal can be outvoted, and why there is no genuine stand-off between body and social-comparison against the reasoning self.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.