Flattening & Dimensionality.
The system's contraction of dimensional bandwidth — affect, interest, preference, future access — as reserves are reallocated toward survival management.
- Entry
- № 06
- Domain
- Cognitive
- Status
- Living entry
- Series
- HCST™ Archive
Flattening is the readable signature of dimensional contraction. Under sustained load, the system reduces the range of accessible experience to protect the operations it still has to perform.
The person is still functioning. The range has simply contracted. Read as character, this contraction is misread. Read as system output, it is diagnostic.