deep event schema
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Editorial synthesis · provisional
Definition
The deep event schema is RB3’s cognitive scaffold for recognizing transformation through potential, constraint, transformation, stabilization and reiteration. It organizes the presentation of many Laws of Change without itself supplying their causal theory. The proposal keeps this embodied interpretive sequence distinct from a compulsory linear history that every process or every law must follow.
Explanation
The sequence links openness with resistance, change and retained effects that become conditions for further change. The surrounding discussion grounds recognition in sensorimotor experience and learned activity. Such grounding explains how a pattern can become intelligible without proving that cognition creates the physical events it interprets.
The source calls the schema a scaffold rather than a theory. Its account of mapping, selective projection, blending and compression preserves the cognitive work involved in recognizing recurrent relations. A useful conceptual organization therefore remains distinct from a hidden mechanism that operates unchanged across physics, life and culture.
The author explicitly marks Laws 5 and 7 as exceptions to straightforward sequential placement. Relational constitution and temporal plurality cut across a simple event chain. The proposed entry retains that qualification instead of forcing every law into the sequence or claiming that a schematic fit independently verifies the ontology.
Scope and attribution
A cognitive scaffold is not a causal theory or a mandatory linear sequence; retain Laws 5 and 7 as cross-cutting qualifications.
AB — The Actual Book
Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.
Occurrence locators: 146, 147.
PB — The Possible Book
Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.
Occurrence locators: 34, 103, 126.
RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations
The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.
Occurrence locators: 104, 105, 111, 112, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135.