Principlev1
Generate prospective predictions about emotional patterns
Generate prospective predictions about emotional patterns and test them against reality to distinguish genuine regularities from retrospective narratives.
Why This Is a Principle
Strongly grounds to Memory is reconstructive, not reproductive—humans rebuild (reconstructive memory), Hindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity (hindsight bias), and Automatic Narrative Generation Precedes Conscious Evaluation (post-hoc narrative generation). Prescribes prospective testing to overcome retrospective biases. Applies Popperian falsification to self-knowledge.