AIM Framework glossary
Positional Asymmetry Sub-Principle
Canonical definition
Because the cognitive architecture (Common-Currency Integration, Source Opacity, Confabulation, Bayesian updating, Preconscious Transmission) is invariant across Individuals (Content-Agnosticism), the direction and magnitude of Mimetic Premium flow during reciprocity-equilibria are dictated not by differential cognition but by differential social position, which determines the Confabulation templates available to the Individual, the Observability gradient the Individual occupies, and the PM-channel mix (PM-visible, PM-ownership, PM-portfolio, PM-interest) loaded onto the Individual.
Explanation
The Sub-Principle is derivable from Content-Agnosticism combined with the Mimetic Premium Asymmetry Principle. Two Individuals running identical inference engines over identical Concealment-supplied Hypothesis spaces will reliably produce convergent reciprocity-percepts, but the underlying PM transfer through the Decision Hub is asymmetric, because PM-channel loading is positional rather than cognitive. The Individual at the high-PM end of an interaction extracts positive Net Mimetic Position; the Individual at the low-PM end incurs negative Net Mimetic Position; both report the interaction as reciprocal because both have terminated the source-question on the same Confabulation. No principled account of perceived reciprocity in the presence of structural PM differentials can be sustained without the Mimetic Premium construct, because every alternative explanation (denial of the differential, attribution to differential cognition, attribution to differential merit) is itself a Confabulation supplied by Complexity-as-Concealment to the inference engine, and therefore cannot serve as the explanans for the perception it is part of.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Sub-Principle.