AIM Framework glossary
I-Corrective Asymmetry
Canonical definition
The derived consequence that, because the Observer has no upstream channel into the Thinker for its Salience output, and that output reaches the Thinker's ground-resolution function only after tag-stripping at the Decision Hub, the Thinker cannot use the Observer’s signal as independent evidence to correct its own priors about the Observer; correction must therefore be routed through the Thinker’s Hypothesis Space directly, which is the architectural basis for siting the Knowledge Patch in the Thinker. Follows from the Channel-Count Asymmetry and Source Opacity. The fast-layer formalisation is at Appendix A.5.9.
Explanation
The social-comparison faculty cannot tell the reasoning self “you are wrong about me,” because it has no line back to it and its signal arrives stripped of its source. So the reasoning self can only be corrected by working on its own Beliefs directly, which is exactly where the Knowledge Patch operates.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.