Before there is memory, or model, or choice —
There is something that lasts just long enough to shape what comes next.
This is Essay 1.75 in the Recursive Observation Series.
It steps between theory and application, clarifying what we mean by filtering — not metaphorically, but structurally.
How does a structure begin to matter to itself?
How does bias emerge before awareness?
What makes one recursion last, and another dissolve?
Explore the first non-neutral leanings of structure: