/concept-blending

name: concept-blending
description: 'Fauconnier-Turner 4-space model: Generic + Input1 + Input2 → Blended
  Space'
execution: strategy
dependencies:
  sops:
  - blend-completion
  - blend-composition
  - blend-elaboration
  - combinatorial-synthesis
  - generic-space-extraction
  - input-space-construction
  - vital-relation-mapping
  tactics:
  - blend-construction
  - emergence-detection

Concept Blending

Fauconnier-Turner 4-space model: Generic + Input1 + Input2 → Blended Space. Produce novel concepts by selectively projecting structure from two input mental spaces into a blended space that develops emergent structure.

State Ledger

| Resource | Target | Current | % | |----------|--------|---------|---| | web-search | 25 | 0 | 0% | | web-research | 10 | 0 | 0% | | paper-overview | 30 | 0 | 0% | | paper-search | 20 | 0 | 0% | | paper-research | 10 | 0 | 0% |

HARD-GATE

Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.

Available Tactics

| Tactic | Role | |--------|------| | combination-mapping | Enumerate blend dimensions and viable combinations | | blend-construction | Construct complete 4-space blends with emergent structure | | emergence-detection | Detect emergent properties in completed blends |

Available SOPs

| SOP | Role | |-----|------| | input-space-construction | Build input spaces for source concepts | | generic-space-extraction | Extract shared abstract structure | | blend-composition | Compose new connections in blended space | | blend-completion | Complete blend with background knowledge | | blend-elaboration | Run blend as mental simulation | | vital-relation-mapping | Map vital relations between concepts | | combinatorial-synthesis | Synthesize blending outputs |

Execution Guidance

1. **Select Input Concepts**: Choose two concepts with rich internal structure 2. **Build Input Spaces**: Use input-space-construction to elaborate each concept's elements, relations, and attributes 3. **Extract Generic Space**: Use generic-space-extraction to find shared abstract structure 4. **Map Vital Relations**: Use vital-relation-mapping to identify compression opportunities 5. **Compose Blend**: Use blend-composition to selectively project and create new connections 6. **Complete Blend**: Use blend-completion to recruit background knowledge 7. **Elaborate Blend**: Use blend-elaboration to run the blend as simulation and discover emergent structure

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Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| Tactic | When to use | | --- | --- | | blend-construction | Construct complete 4-space blends with emergent structure. Orchestrates input-space-construction → generic-space-extraction → blend-composition. | | emergence-detection | Detect and validate emergent properties from combinations. Orchestrates emergent-property-identification → blend-elaboration. |

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| SOP | When to use | | --- | --- | | blend-completion | Complete blend with background knowledge | | blend-composition | Compose new connections in blended space | | blend-elaboration | Run blend as mental simulation | | combinatorial-synthesis | Synthesize all combinatorial creativity outputs | | generic-space-extraction | Extract shared abstract structure from two input spaces | | input-space-construction | Build input spaces for two source concepts | | vital-relation-mapping | Map 15 vital relations between concepts |

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