Principlev1PR-722
Maintain distinct schemas as separate regulatory responses…
Maintain distinct schemas as separate regulatory responses to different environmental challenges rather than collapsing them into a single framework, as variety in internal models is required to match variety in external disturbances.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle directly derives from Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety as applied to cognitive systems. It's grounded in Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge), Flexible Context-Dependent Categorization (conceptual structure is flexible and context-dependent), and The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system behavior arises from structure). The principle is prescriptive (maintain diversity) and actionable (resist homogenization impulse), following from the axiom that different challenges require different responses.