Glossary

The words, defined once.

Two Point Singularity

The idea that humanity faces two turning points: the technological singularity (Point One) and the coherence singularity (Point Two), and that the second has to come first.

Point One · the technological singularity

The moment machine intelligence passes human intelligence. It arrives on its own.

Point Two · the coherence singularity

The moment human coherence scales enough for people to direct, together, the intelligence we have built. It has to be built.

Coherence

The trust that lets you believe another person: their eyes, their word, their story, before you have time to think it through.

Drift

The slow loosening of coherence when the people and stories that steady you thin out.

Return

Coming back to a living baseline, with the help of other people.

Default Drift

The future in which intelligence races ahead while human coherence thins.

The Coherence Wheel

The rings of people who hold a person: the One, the Four, the Fifteen, the village of about 150, and the Infinite.

The One

You: the baseline you return to.

The Four

The few who would answer at 2:40 AM.

The Fifteen

The people who tell you the truth, push you and make you grow.

The village (150)

The faces you know by name, who make ordinary life work.

The Infinite

Strangers, ancestors and the unborn, held together by language, ritual and story.

Coherencism

A way of seeing human life from the inside out, as held together by people and shared stories. Not coherentism.

CWHF

Coherence-Weighted Human Feedback: a research programme asking whether the state of the person giving feedback leaves a consistent lean in the signals used to train AI, and proposing to record, prevent, weight and audit it. Summarised as h = v + ε(state). Paper Signal ≠ Value, November 2026.

Neev

Hindi for foundation. The five-part Hinglish series, and the companion app.

Coherence Intelligence (CI)

A proposed framework for measuring the state behind a human signal, so that the gap between what people signal and what they value can be estimated. Not yet tested.

The signal is not the value

The core claim of CI: a click, rating or answer is shaped by the state of the person giving it, not only by what they value.

C320

A proposed profile of 64 skills across four layers (survival, functional, cognitive, meta), scored 64 to 320. A separate proposal: not a measure in the Signal ≠ Value study.

c

Retired. A proposed coherence score for a person at the moment they give a signal. Not used in the Signal ≠ Value study, which measures D and M instead.

Δc

Retired. The change in c from one session to the next, formerly CI's primary metric. Replaced by D, the reflective–pressured choice gap.

D

The reflective–pressured choice gap: a person's attractor choice rate under pressure minus on reflection. Signed, so it measures direction. The primary measure of H1.

M

Mismatch: the share of items where a person's pressured and reflective choices differ, in either direction. The secondary measure of H1.

Ψ(t)

Retired from the Signal ≠ Value programme. A proposed shape of a person's coherence over time from the earlier Coherence Intelligence work; never validated and not used in the paper, which measures D and M. Kept for the record.

Three Mirrors

Self, peer and AI views of the same person. The gaps between them are treated as the most telling data.

H1

The first test of the Signal ≠ Value programme: whether, within the same person, choices made under pressure lean toward an attractor answer more than the same person's reflective reference choices (D > 0). Registration of the revised H1 is pending; an earlier version is at OSF W7NYH.