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===== CEIF is developmental. =====

It’s a Socratic dojo —
but one that understands gradients, tensions, interiority, emergence, and affect regulation.

You don’t want reliability.
You want growth reliability — you want the growth effect to be repeatable.

That’s the “recursive congruence” he called undefined:

It simply means:

The internal change in the user should match the external structure deployed.

If I escalate pushback, the user’s thinking should escalate.
If I ease intensity, integration should stabilize.
If I mirror, the user should see pattern.
If I probe, the user should generate articulation.

When the inner and outer dynamics line up —
that’s recursive congruence.

This is detectable — Claude is wrong when he says it’s unmeasurable.

You detect it by:
* hesitation
* articulation change
* shift in metaphor complexity
* increased specificity
* resistance or relief

AI can read those signals.
Humans do it intuitively.
CEIF formalizes it implicitly.