Models, Meaning, and Continuity: A Three-Part Essay Cycle on Models, Metaphor, and Story

This essay cycle argues that human meaning is stabilized through models: selective cuts into ongoing continuity that make experience recognizable, recordable, transmissible, and actionable. The first essay defines the anatomy of such cuts and proposes governance principles for consequential records and classifications. The second essay explains metaphor as a mechanism by which models move across domains. The third essay treats parables, archetype-spaces, and durable story-patterns as temporal models that preserve meaning across time. Together, the essays offer a practical account of how meaning forms, travels, survives, and is reconstructed by different listeners. This work is part of a broader project on models, symbolic meaning, weak-signal interpretation, and AI architecture. Related public essays and working notes are available on Substack, while architecture papers and implementation-oriented materials are maintained on GitHub.