AIM Framework glossary
M-Management
Canonical definition
M-Management is the AIM Framework's normative target: the reduction of the harm the Mimetic channel produces, pursued without any attempt to remove the channel, which the architecture forecloses. It operates on four limbs — supplying the vocabulary by which an Individual can recognise an M-signal as an M-signal; enabling I-Override, so that recognition can bear on action; structuring environments so that harmful M-amplification is reduced; and channelling M toward Positive Mimesis rather than rivalry.
Explanation
M-Management is management of a permanent architectural feature rather than elimination of a contingent flaw. The Observer has no termination condition, and the Salience Floor bounds attenuation from below, so no configuration of priors and no institutional arrangement reduces M-input to zero. Elimination is also undesirable: the Mimetic channel carries cultural learning and transmission, coordination, and shared meaning, and an Individual without it could not acquire language or participate in collective experience. What the AIM Framework targets is therefore the Mimetic Premium the channel hosts, not the channel that hosts it. The four limbs divide by where they act. The first two act on the Individual and are the work of the Knowledge Patch: vocabulary makes the Hypothesis available, and I-Override makes it actionable. The second two act on the environment and are institutional: the reduction of harmful amplification is Observability Governance, and the redirection of transmitted content toward coordination rather than rivalry is Positive Mimesis. The institutional instrument set is the Four Dimensions of M-Management, which gives the third and fourth limbs their design levers; the formal statement of the target is Subcriticality Maintenance, which expresses M-Management as maintenance of the loop below the threshold at which mimetic escalation becomes self-sustaining. M-Management is indefinite: there is no configuration at which it ceases to be required.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct. The AIM Framework's canonical normative target, formalised as Subcriticality Maintenance.