Planck thought “science advances one funeral at a time” was a law of intellectual life. TEI reads it as a diagnostic — the measured latency of a captured cycle, and now a design problem.
A machine can hand you a finished thought on demand. The fork that decides everything: does the tool run your Process phase for you, or hand the thinking back and leave you more capable?
The First Law of TEI holds that intelligence wants to know itself through an infinite continuum of phenomena. Belief, addiction, money, and power are the forces that close it into a loop.
