{"id":"learning-and-policy-permeability","title":"When transferred learning affects governing policies","regions":["normative-change","distributed-learning","representation"],"question":"When does the transfer of learned structure between systems also alter governing commitments?","formulation":"The proposed connection runs from recursive forms and moral reflexivity to policy permeability during parameter-level communication. It asks whether an exchange of learned structure could also carry changes in how a system governs itself.","representations":[{"name":"An explicit proposed policy change","affords":"Separates the requested revision and its stated reasons.","loses":"May miss policy effects carried by other learned representations.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"A transferred representation or parameter update","affords":"Makes a broader competence transfer possible.","loses":"The update may entangle task knowledge, behavioral dispositions, and governing commitments.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"Knowledge exchange and policy revision may be coupled even when the interface treats them as separate.","challenge":"How can the receiving system identify which governing commitments an apparently task-specific transfer would affect?","development":"active","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-learning-and-policy-permeability"],"next_move":{"text":"Define a narrow fictional transfer with separate task and policy evaluations; compare intended changes, unintended changes, and reversibility.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["When does the transfer of learned structure between systems also alter governing commitments?","How can the receiving system identify which governing commitments an apparently task-specific transfer would affect?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"d543ea6ee866e4f1959918b0b3db06e0208ad3f6a20e6f1329f7fd838b31c595"}