"Explains how root assumptions like 'I don't belong' operate as structural database constraints that reject reality-conforming data."
Cognitive Mindbugs
Root assumptions that act as corrupt database validation rules, rejecting reality-conforming data before it can be processed.
Where This Idea Comes From
Introduced in the same essay as Axioms of Perception, described there as root assumptions that behave like corrupt database validation rules — rejecting reality-conforming data before it's ever processed, rather than merely misinterpreting it after the fact.