you held the red block.
it was your block.

a friend came to play.
the friend saw your red block.

your turn.
one hand held it close.
your friend's hand was open.

you looked at the block.
you looked at your friend.
your hand gave the friend the block.
one hand to another hand.

the friend put the red block on top.
then the friend gave you a blue block.
you put the blue block on the red block.

your turn.
your friend's turn.
a tower of turns.

the tower grew tall.
you both smiled at what you made.

the logical primitives are act, sense, map, compare, and scale.
act projects change onto an external system.
sense registers resulting state change.
map links sensory input to corresponding action or label.
compare identifies difference between two registered states.
scale modulates intensity or scope of an act.

the core recursive loop begins as a model proposes a boundary.
the agent acts to test this boundary.
it senses the delta between expected and actual outcome.
this delta updates the agent's internal model.
the refined model generates the next boundary test.

the utility function guides growth by minimizing predictive error.
successful prediction reinforces a model.
failed prediction forces model revision.

the sheet is pulled taut between us.
my hand on one corner, his hand on the other.

my knuckles press against the chair back.
his small hand flattens the cloth against the cushion.
he crawls into the space we made.
he looks up.
his world for a moment is the pattern on the quilt.

i say a word and he says the word back.
the word makes a shape in the air between us.
now there is a dragon outside the fort.
the word put it there.

he knows the part where the boat finds the island.
his breath is a weight on my arm.
each telling is a new map of the same place.