Doubt Generation

Canonical definition

Doubt Generation is the primary mechanism by which the Knowledge Patch operates, producing a non-zero interference term in a Belief system that has decohered onto a dominant false prior (Hauthentic). Formally, doubt is the condition where the Individual's Belief state has non-zero amplitude on more than one Hypothesis direction simultaneously, which is the non-zero Interference Term. The Knowledge Patch generates doubt through high-likelihood-ratio signals: the Two-Question Diagnostic generates individual-level doubt by producing observations more probable under Hmimetic than under Hauthentic; Behavioural Signatures generate confirmatory doubt through longitudinal observation; the Presumption Against Scapegoating generates collective-level doubt by producing observations more probable under Hsystemic than under H_scapegoat. Without doubt, without a non-zero interference term, subspace expansion is inert: the new Hypothesis is available but cannot accumulate probability mass because the system is in a pure state.