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Empathy as Frame-Preserving Interpretation

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Some empathic failures occur when systems preserve a user’s words but discard the bounded relational frame that made those words meaningful. This bridge note argues for frame-preserving interpretation in stratified agent stacks: notice frame cues, form provisional frames with provenance and retention limits, shape bounded responses, and require explicit governance before promotion to durable memory or authority.

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Note: This bridge paper is part of the broader Spanda architectural framework, a stratified, constraint-governed agent architecture for handling weak signals, provisional interpretation, bounded response shaping, memory discipline, and governed consequence across artificial-agent systems.

Repository: https://github.com/putmanmodel/spanda-architectural-framework

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A Bridge Note on Relational Validity in Stratified Agent Systems