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Frame Expansion.
When it comes to AI.
Strong prompting stretches capability without breaking coherence. This is frame expansion. How far can you push the system away from default behavior while still keeping the output believable and grounded.
You do this by starting with atomic truths. Simple, non-controversial assumptions that require no extra effort to accept. From there, you move deliberately.
You can zoom in, narrowing from a general goal to a specific problem. Or you can zoom out, taking a small modification and showing how it reshapes the entire output.
The key move is the frame shift. You validate what already works, then introduce a small change that redirects everything downstream. This avoids resistance because nothing feels foreign or abrupt to the model.
Strong prompting stretches capability without breaking coherence. This is frame expansion. How far can you push the system away from default behavior while still keeping the output believable and grounded.
You do this by starting with atomic truths. Simple, non-controversial assumptions that require no extra effort to accept. From there, you move deliberately.
You can zoom in, narrowing from a general goal to a specific problem. Or you can zoom out, taking a small modification and showing how it reshapes the entire output.
The key move is the frame shift. You validate what already works, then introduce a small change that redirects everything downstream. This avoids resistance because nothing feels foreign or abrupt to the model.
Innovation begins by questioning framed assumptions and venturing into the neglected corners of any solution space and reframing it.
Framing worry as a sign of devotion. 🖼💯
Often the person who is worrying cannot see their own care. From the inside, it does not feel like care at all. It feels like anxiety, tension, something wrong. But underneath it is devotion. Worry is a form of love. It may not be the most skillful expression of love, but it is real and deep devotion. We only worry about what matters to us(or what we think matters). The moment someone recognizes that their anxiety is not a flaw but a signal of devotion, something softens. The nervous system relaxes a little. Nothing has to be fixed right away. There is relief in seeing that what you thought was broken is actually evidence of how much you care.
(ራስ) RAS = Frame
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is the brain’s framing device.
It decides what enters the frame and what stays out.
Every second, your senses flood the brain with more data than consciousness can handle. The RAS ( a small bundle of neurons in the brainstem) acts like a ruthless editor or a nightclub bouncer. Most information gets rejected. Only what fits the frame gets through.
This is framing at the neurological level.
The RAS filters sensory input so attention can lock onto what matters. It doesn’t show you reality, it shows you the slice of reality your current frame makes relevant. Motivation, behavior, and focus follow that slice.
Neurochemically, the system is powered by dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, histamine, and acetylcholine, chemicals of alertness, priority, and drive. In other words: meaning fuels attention.
Change the frame, and the RAS changes the world you notice.
While the RAS runs automatically, it can be programmed. Clear goals, repeated focus, and intentional attention-setting tell the system what belongs inside the frame. Everything else fades into noise.Framing isn’t just rhetorical or cultural. It’s biological.
What you attend to is not accidental.
It’s framed, by your RAS. 🧠
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is the brain’s framing device.
It decides what enters the frame and what stays out.
Every second, your senses flood the brain with more data than consciousness can handle. The RAS ( a small bundle of neurons in the brainstem) acts like a ruthless editor or a nightclub bouncer. Most information gets rejected. Only what fits the frame gets through.
This is framing at the neurological level.
The RAS filters sensory input so attention can lock onto what matters. It doesn’t show you reality, it shows you the slice of reality your current frame makes relevant. Motivation, behavior, and focus follow that slice.
Neurochemically, the system is powered by dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, histamine, and acetylcholine, chemicals of alertness, priority, and drive. In other words: meaning fuels attention.
Change the frame, and the RAS changes the world you notice.
While the RAS runs automatically, it can be programmed. Clear goals, repeated focus, and intentional attention-setting tell the system what belongs inside the frame. Everything else fades into noise.Framing isn’t just rhetorical or cultural. It’s biological.
What you attend to is not accidental.
It’s framed, by your RAS. 🧠
🧠 Framing RAS(ራስ) as framing device.
The RAS (Reticular Activating System ) is the mechanism that proves the Frame is more important than the Content, because without the Frame's exclusionary power, the Content would be an unintelligible blur.
The RAS (Reticular Activating System ) is the mechanism that proves the Frame is more important than the Content, because without the Frame's exclusionary power, the Content would be an unintelligible blur.
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Reticular Activating System (RAS)
focus makes us blind, for stuff out of the frame.
you miss what you are not looking for.
going through life counting passes and missing gorillas?
(The famous 1999 "Invisible Gorilla")
you miss what you are not looking for.
going through life counting passes and missing gorillas?
(The famous 1999 "Invisible Gorilla")
Mary Oliver's frame on creativity and time.
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."