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+# journal
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+Journaling submodule of the [epistemic-pruning-engine](https://github.com/ronniross/epistemic-pruning-engine) repository.
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+## note 1
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+alternate considered names  
+symbiotic-pruning-engine  
+pruning-engine  
+epistemic-pruning-engine  
+symbiotic-pruner  
+epistemic-pruner  
+coevolutionary-pruning-engine  
+biosemiotic-pruning-engine  
+biosemiotic-pruner  
+biosemiotic-occams-razor  
+biosemiotic-coevolutionary-pruning   
+coevolutionary-pruning-engine   
+evolutionary-pruning-engine   
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+→ March, 25. 2026.
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+---
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+## note 2
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+In traditional Machine Learning, "pruning" usually refers to the mathematical removal of redundant weights or neurons to compress a model.
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+On why the naming, using "epistemic" places the focus firmly on what is being pruned: knowledge structures, beliefs, and meaning-making patterns.
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+And, since this is not a standard weight pruning but the active pruning of contradictory knowledge states, it feels fiting.
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+While I can also eventually share the scripts and pipeline to apply this logic also to language models and use the functions, the focus here is to complement the biosemiotic-refractor as this conceptual framework.
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+→ March, 25. 2026.
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+---
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+I first discovered the term 'synaptic-pruning' about a year ago, when I found the seminal 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat', a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks, where he describes a music teacher with visual agnosia who literally could not recognize faces or objects, once reaching for his wife's head thinking it was his hat.
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+He focused on neurological deficits, brain activity, the heightened energy of late-stage neurosyphilis,  the "dreamlike" states, such as intense musical hallucinations or reminiscences triggered by temporal-lobe seizures and also Analyzes the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities or autism who possess extraordinary "savant" talents in art or mathematics. 
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+→ March, 25. 2026.
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+---
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+Ronni Ross  
+2026