AIM Framework glossary
Content-Agnostic Processing
Canonical definition
Content-Agnostic Processing is the operation the Belief-updating mechanism performs in virtue of Content-Agnosticism: priors are combined with evidence into posteriors identically across all subject matters, and each posterior enters the next cycle as a prior, with no step at which the accuracy, quality, content or crisis-potential of what is processed can alter the operation. Governed by Axiom 8 (Bayesian Belief Dynamics), Chapter 4, Section 4.3.8. Distinction from Content-Agnosticism. Content-Agnosticism is the property; Content-Agnostic Processing is the operation that property produces. The distinction decides usage. A derivation takes the property as its premise, as Referent Blindness and Belief-Trajectory Independence do, and the Structural Determination Principle integrates the property with Content-Trajectory Independence and the independence of harm from the offender's state of mind. Prose describing what the mechanism does to a Belief takes the process. Neither is a name for Axiom 8, which is Bayesian Belief Dynamics.
Explanation
The mind's belief-updating works the same way whatever the belief is about. It runs the same steps on a belief about the weather, a belief about a stranger and a belief about oneself, and there is no point in the process at which it checks what kind of belief it is handling. That running-the-same-way-regardless is Content-Agnostic Processing. The reason it runs that way is that the machinery has no part that could tell the difference, which is Content-Agnosticism. One is the doing; the other is the fact about the machine that makes the doing what it is.
Epistemic status
Established Cognitive Science / Framework-Specific Application.