Imaginative Search Corollary

Canonical definition

The Imaginative Search Corollary is the consequence of the two-operation structure of Conscious Cognition that Imagination executes an expansion of the Hypothesis Space $\mathcal{H}$ which Ground-Resolution alone cannot achieve: Ground-Resolution redistributes probability mass across $\mathcal{H}$ as $\mathcal{H}$ stands, so a Hypothesis absent from $\mathcal{H}$ acquires no mass however much evidence arrives, whereas Imagination constructs candidate Hypotheses out of Knowledge held in the Memory Store and delivers them into $\mathcal{H}$, enabling truth-discovery in domains where the true explanatory Hypothesis was previously absent from $\mathcal{H}$. The expansion is bounded by the Memory Store rather than by $\mathcal{H}$: what Imagination can assemble is fixed by the Knowledge the Memory Store holds, so a Hypothesis whose constituent Knowledge has never been encountered is unavailable to construction as well as to updating. AIM Vocabulary Acquisition operates as the primary socially-transmitted accelerant of this corollary, supplying pre-formed candidate Hypotheses (Happetitive, Hintrinsic, H_mimetic) that the engine would otherwise have to generate from first principles.