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The Physics of Socratic Prompting: Somatic Recoil, Chess Alpha-Beta, & The NLP Meta-Model

"Thirty, maybe even forty years ago, I said that if we were ever to create a synthetic mind, it would have to work in such a way that we couldn't debug it by single-stepping through an algorithm. It will be more like how a pond computes the waves from a pebble dropped into it." — Randal L.

By Randal L. SchwartzDev.to AI
The Physics of Socratic Prompting: Somatic Recoil, Chess Alpha-Beta, & The NLP Meta-Model

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Originally published by Dev.to AI on Oct 1, 2026.

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