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Tomas Pødenphant Lund

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#small language model Open access Sep 2026

Nature and Nurture in a Language Model: Installable Value Fields, Intrinsic Capacity, and the Forward-Consolidation Boundary

Behavioural Friction Theory decomposes the forces that govern a bounded decision system into four cognitive fields — Safety, Meaning, Ability, Effort. Are these fields intrinsic to a substrate, or the generic product of its exposure to experience? This paper uses a large language model as a controllable test substrate...

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#large language models Open access Sep 2026

Nature and Nurture in a Language Model: Installable Value Fields, Intrinsic Capacity, and the Forward-Consolidation Boundary

Behavioural Friction Theory decomposes the forces that govern a bounded decision system into four cognitive fields — Safety, Meaning, Ability, Effort. Are these fields intrinsic to a substrate, or the generic product of its exposure to experience? This paper uses a large language model as a controllable test substrate...

Tomas Pødenphant Lund · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Sep 2026

Dread without a dreader: anxiety as a non-terminating race, and the collision at the edge of constructive representation

Existential dread needs no dedicated fear-of-death module and no inner “dreader”: it is the signature of a self-evaluation that cannot commit — a race, in the friction-theoretic sense, that never crosses threshold because the state it would represent (one’s own non-existence) has no representable terminal. A large lang...

Tomas Pødenphant Lund · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Aug 2026

Attention as Race-Architecture: attention as the landscape-governed initiation of races

Selective attention, read at the level of the substrate, is the landscape-governed initiation of races: a bounded predictive system runs competing prediction-error resolutions ("races"), and what determines which races start is the system's installed landscape — in humans the four fields of Behavioural Friction Theory...

Tomas Pødenphant Lund · 0 citations

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