Civilization is mistaking the artifact of explanation for the phenomenon itself. We are over-compressed.

But a paradigm shift is occurring. Both neuroscience (via predictive processing) and machine learning (via high-dimensional latent space) are independently rediscovering the same buried truth:

Cognition is fundamentally inferential, topological, and tension-driven long before it becomes linguistic.

Meaning emerges from pressure fields before it becomes a sentence.

The sentence is merely the residue. The topology is primary.