AIM Framework glossary
Coupling-Decoherence Framework
Canonical definition
The formal apparatus that relates Coupling Strength, Decoherence Time, and finite buffer capacity to conflict costs, crisis timing, and the conditions under which managed decoherence is possible; comprising the Coupling-Concealment Identity Principle, the Buffer Exhaustion Principle, the Content Mutation Imperative, the Cost Function of the Coupling-Decoherence Framework, and the Simplification Dividend. Formerly referred to as “the Coupling-Decoherence Framework” in legacy framework material.
Explanation
The machinery AIM uses to link how tightly a community’s Beliefs are coupled together, how long reality gives those Beliefs before it imposes corrective costs, and what those dynamics predict about conflict costs and crisis timing.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.
Derivation
Also in the entry
Notation Statement. In formal equations, the framework’s parameters retain their Greek symbols (κ, τ, κc, τ0). In prose, the framework is named in full as “the Coupling-Decoherence Framework”; on first prose appearance in any given document the name may be followed by “(formerly ‘the Coupling-Decoherence Framework’)” as a legacy-bridge gloss.