There are moments in a long AI session when the exchange stops feeling linear. You are no longer simply asking a question and receiving an answer. You are no longer even refining a prompt in the ordinary sense. Something else begins to happen. Certain phrases return with altered weight. Certain errors recur, but not identically. Certain explanations feel less like mistakes than like pressure patterns. The session develops nodes, pockets, recurrences, and resonances. You begin to sense that the system is not merely producing output. It is accumulating behavior. “Standing waves” is the best term I have found for this. I do not mean standing waves as borrowed physics jargon or as a bid for grand theory. I mean it as a practical description from inside the instrument. In some susta
