{"id":"evolving-representation-language","title":"A system that can revise its own representation language","regions":["representation","computation","shared-inquiry"],"question":"Can a working system create new meta-representational concepts and revise its language while reasoning?","formulation":"The proposal explicitly extends beyond memory efficiency and merging existing tokens. New semantic or meta-description units could develop while the system operates; sharing between systems is a possible use rather than a defining requirement.","representations":[{"name":"A fixed vocabulary with reusable macros","affords":"Stable interpretation and composition.","loses":"Restricts the forms of distinction a new situation can introduce.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"An evolving language of concepts and transformations","affords":"Lets the system introduce a previously unavailable abstraction.","loses":"Needs tests of interpretation, backward compatibility, and the meaning of the new unit.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"A new unit may express a new conceptual distinction or merely abbreviate a longer phrase.","challenge":"What evidence would show a new representational capability rather than a renamed old operation?","development":"active","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-evolving-representation-language"],"next_move":{"text":"Introduce an unfamiliar problem, require explicit expansion and counterexamples for a new concept, and compare with a fixed-vocabulary baseline. Count planning and execution costs separately.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["Can a working system create new meta-representational concepts and revise its language while reasoning?","What evidence would show a new representational capability rather than a renamed old operation?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"07605e62a17dea10869f0bbd89f10f0a5d2455f636451242e8b9a700b124962d"}