HLRP #157: Probabilistic Miraging: A Governance Framework for Displaced AI Outputs

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contents Outputs currently classified as AI hallucinations are better understood as probabilistic mirages: displaced images produced by a real probability gradient, not fabrications from nothing. The atmospheric analogy is exact. A mirage is a real optical event in which a real object's image is displaced by a refractive-index gradient in a thermal field. In AI systems, the probability gradient is the interference profile of superposed features: when a network packs more features than it has representational dimensions, crosstalk between features bends the output image away from the factual object. The displaced output is real signal whose source coordinate is wrong. This paper demonstrates: (1) the physical mechanism of probabilistic miraging via the neural superposition interference framework; (2) why the 30% dissent cluster in multi-model evaluation is the instrument that probes the probability gradient — analogous to Lehn's (1983) use of atmospheric mirages to recover atmospheric temperature profiles; (3) why current suppression strategies address the displaced image rather than the gradient that produced it; and (4) a 10-layer routing architecture that uses the mirage as an instrument rather than an error. The governor creates a deliberate flat region around the commitment boundary — RAG-style nesting for an 8-model ensemble — with the 9th layer selecting convergence and noting dissent as signal, and the 10th (principal) layer committing from genuine positional resolution. The self is the recognition in the output.
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spellingShingle HLRP #157: Probabilistic Miraging: A Governance Framework for Displaced AI Outputs
Dunn, James E.
Geometric Coupling Theory
GCT
HLRP
coupling geometry
probabilistic miraging
hallucination
superposition
governance architecture
interference filtering
flat region
H3 trilemma
HHH alignment
dissent routing
Lehn inversion
quarter-collinear regime
governor architecture
10-layer decisional architecture
AI safety
routing architecture
Outputs currently classified as AI hallucinations are better understood as probabilistic mirages: displaced images produced by a real probability gradient, not fabrications from nothing. The atmospheric analogy is exact. A mirage is a real optical event in which a real object's image is displaced by a refractive-index gradient in a thermal field. In AI systems, the probability gradient is the interference profile of superposed features: when a network packs more features than it has representational dimensions, crosstalk between features bends the output image away from the factual object. The displaced output is real signal whose source coordinate is wrong. This paper demonstrates: (1) the physical mechanism of probabilistic miraging via the neural superposition interference framework; (2) why the 30% dissent cluster in multi-model evaluation is the instrument that probes the probability gradient — analogous to Lehn's (1983) use of atmospheric mirages to recover atmospheric temperature profiles; (3) why current suppression strategies address the displaced image rather than the gradient that produced it; and (4) a 10-layer routing architecture that uses the mirage as an instrument rather than an error. The governor creates a deliberate flat region around the commitment boundary — RAG-style nesting for an 8-model ensemble — with the 9th layer selecting convergence and noting dissent as signal, and the 10th (principal) layer committing from genuine positional resolution. The self is the recognition in the output.
title HLRP #157: Probabilistic Miraging: A Governance Framework for Displaced AI Outputs
topic Geometric Coupling Theory
GCT
HLRP
coupling geometry
probabilistic miraging
hallucination
superposition
governance architecture
interference filtering
flat region
H3 trilemma
HHH alignment
dissent routing
Lehn inversion
quarter-collinear regime
governor architecture
10-layer decisional architecture
AI safety
routing architecture
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19644526