# Becoming neighbors through a change of representation

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Epistemic kind: reconstruction

## Question

Can two structures become operationally close only after a transformation changes how their relation is represented?

## Formulation

Rotation is used as an analogy for making a previously unavailable neighborhood or route accessible. Later material explicitly revisits the connection between an agent walking a manifold and learned similarity.

## Tension

Geometric proximity, semantic similarity, and compatibility of actions can diverge.

## Challenge

What observable operation becomes possible after the transformation that was impossible before it?