{"schemaVersion":"2026-09-11-cwi-prs-v0.1","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/frameworks/cwi-prs","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/cwi-prs.json","author":"John Brajer","publishedAt":"2026-09-11","status":"canonical_working_framework","cwi":{"name":"CWI","acronymExpansion":null,"acronymExpansionStatus":"intentionally undefined in v0.1","coreClaim":"People can possess more materially available actions than they psychologically treat as selectable. CWI models the gap between actual, recognized, and psychologically permitted action space.","actionSpaces":{"actual":{"symbol":"A(t)","definition":"Actions materially available under the person's real constraints at time t."},"recognized":{"symbol":"R(t)","definition":"The subset of A(t) the person can imagine, identify, or recognize as real possibilities."},"behavioralCorridor":{"symbol":"B(t)","definition":"The subset of R(t) the person psychologically permits themselves to choose from."},"relation":"B(t) ⊆ R(t) ⊆ A(t)"},"behavioralCorridor":"A socially and psychologically legible range of actions that feels normal enough, survivable enough, or permitted enough to choose."},"prs":{"name":"PRS","relationshipToCwi":"nested sub-framework / decision lens","variables":{"possibility":{"prompt":"Can a human even do this?","role":"Tracks whether an action is perceived as possible or conceivable."},"riskPerception":{"prompt":"What happens to people who try?","role":"Tracks perceived consequences based on observed wins, losses, survivals, failures, and near-misses."},"statusPayoff":{"prompt":"If I succeed, how extraordinary will society consider it?","role":"Tracks the social distinction attached to success; generally compresses as the action becomes common."}}},"frontierLifecycle":["unrecognized_frontier","first_proof","risk_discovery","social_permission","normalization","frontier_displacement"],"frontierAdjacency":{"workingLabel":"Gator → Shark frontier loop","metaphorOnly":true,"gator":"A visible behavior, market, tactic, or opportunity that is receiving rapidly increasing participation.","shark":"An adjacent possibility that becomes newly reachable, valuable, or visible because Gator adoption changed the environment.","crowdEffects":["infrastructure","skills","tools","distribution","social norms","audiences","data","complementary demand","lower costs","new expectations"],"sequence":["observe_gator","identify_what_mass_adoption_changed","enumerate_adjacent_sharks","evaluate_each_with_prs","move_while_under_recognized","watch_for_normalization","repeat"],"keyAsymmetry":"An adjacent Shark can inherit infrastructure and knowledge from a mature Gator while still retaining high differentiation, producing less uncertainty than the original frontier with more status payoff than the normalized one."},"socialMediaApplication":{"pattern":"A lower-status participant may perceive less existing status to protect, experiment more frequently, and generate more attempts; a higher-status participant may become more perfectionistic and reduce experimentation frequency.","principle":"Current status is not a complete measure of the actions available from the current state."},"predictions":["Successful unconventional examples should increase the number of actions observers report as personally conceivable even without changes in objective resources.","Observed failures should update adoption primarily through risk perception, while repeated successes should increase perceived possibility and social permission.","As an unconventional action becomes common, perceived status payoff should tend to decline even if technical difficulty remains constant.","Rapid adoption in one domain should increase the visibility or viability of complementary and adjacent opportunities.","In some contexts, people with less perceived status to protect should make more frequent unconventional attempts than people protecting an established position."],"provenance":{"origin":"Formalized by John Brajer on September 11, 2026 from analysis of hierarchy, free will, social proof, risk, status, and frontier movement.","versionRelationship":"PRS is nested within CWI in v0.1. The Gator → Shark loop is the frontier-adjacency application."}}