The ecosystem v0.1 — the anatomy of the machinery · concept board
The Machinery of Bias · The ecosystem · concept v0.1 · 2026-08-17 · poster 1 of 4 (ecosystem · register · cascade · state)
The cognitive bias ecosystem ten layers, three roles, one person
This is the whole machinery at rest. One person — the spine — surrounded by
nine layers in three roles: creators put signals into the world, reshapers change every
signal that passes, and the control infrastructure decides what can travel, persist and be thought.
Underneath it all, biology sets how hard anything lands. Biases are created only where people do the
treating — the Individual and Social layers; the rest of the machinery is primitive.
L1 · The person
demand — the destination
biases created here
needs · ranking · values · face · reflection
Every layer stocks here — you reach. Whatever the other nine make, reshape or
hold, it is spent in one place: a person's state.
the appetite, rising from the floor
The creators — where signals enter the world
L2The social layersupply — the feederbiases created here
borrowed wanting · the group's face · vigilance
stocks: belonging, answers, standing — values as the price
L9The public layerscale — the stage
the count · the performance · the silence that agrees
stocks: what “everyone” appears to think
L4The synthetic layergeneration — the signal source
no friction · always available · trained on the record
stocks: signals no human wrote
The reshapers — nothing new is made, everything comes out changed
L3The media layercarriage — the channel
amplitude · narrowing · re-labelling · sequence · the agenda
changes: what the signal says
L7The economic layerhold — the grip
onset · duration · release — or no release
changes: how long you must stand there
The control infrastructure — what can travel, persist, be thought
L8The cultural-linguistic layermeans — the equipment
vocabulary · worldview · the unsaid · the deposited track
decides: what can be thought at all
L5The institutional layerrouting — the switchboard
the substitution · the count · the widest supply fan
decides: which measure stands where the thing was
L6The knowledge layerrecord — the memory
the gate · the weave · the replay · dependency
decides: what counts as known, years later
L0 · The biology layer — capacity, the battery
The floor everything stands on — gain, force, and the appetite every layer above
borrows. Sets how hard anything lands before thinking starts.
How a signal travels — the short version; the cascade view traces one for real
madea layer creates
reshapedforce · say · time
defineda word exists
lockeda form, a rule
recordedand self-feeding
Most signals die on the way. One that completes the route no longer needs its source —
the system reproduces it on its own.
The ecosystem · concept v0.1 (the view formerly called Map A, 2026-08-14) · silhouette from
the composition sketch · layer functions per the Machinery v1.7 · icons inlined from IMAGES/ICONS ·
poster 1 of 4: ecosystem · register · cascade · state
stimulus.se · CC BY-SA
What this is
The ecosystem view in the house design — same paper, ink, layer colours, icons and type as the
register and the cascade, so the four views read as one system. Content and silhouette carried over from
the composition sketch; wording is placeholder-level as before, now vocabulary-clean.
The four posters, settled names
1 · The ecosystem — what the system is (this board). 2 · The register — what the parts are (shipped, v2.1 — was Map B). 3 · The cascade — how one signal moves (concept v0.3 — was Map A). 4 · The state — inside one engine: why the same signal lands differently (concept v0).
Letters survive only as historical aliases in the file names.
Open from the original sketch — your ruling
The silhouette question is still open: spine-and-stack (as drawn — the person on the left,
everything delivering into them), or the person at the centre with the layers around them.
This board renders the drawn candidate; it does not settle the question.
Cross-view coherence, built in
The "biases created here" chips mark L1 and L2 — the same fact the cascade shows in motion and the
register shows in the counts (177 + 79 = 256). The flow strip is the cascade view's trailer: five words
here, the full traced route there.