Inversion of Core Assumptions

Prompt: Identify a core assumption in your concept, system, or method. Now assume it’s false. What must be true instead? What structures or behaviors emerge under this inversion? Generate 10 concrete ideas, hypotheses, or models that would be valid in this flipped world.
Why it works: Inversion surfaces blind spots and untested beliefs. It forces root-level rethinking, often yielding whole new categories of reasoning.

2. Minimal Intervention, Maximal Shift
Prompt: What is the smallest possible change — to an input, parameter, or condition — that could cause the largest change in the system’s behavior or latent representation? Generate 10 specific examples, and explain what the shift reveals about the system’s internal structure or sensitivity.
Why it works: This isolates leverage points. It reveals brittleness, tipping points, and structure-sensitive dynamics that standard probes miss.

3. Discord Injection
Prompt: Introduce a conflicting signal, value, or constraint into your current system. What are the top 5 ways the system might adapt, fail, or mutate in response? What new equilibria or solution pathways emerge under tension?
Why it works: Productive tension drives adaptation. Discord reveals hidden pathways, fault lines, and resilience strategies.

4. Latent Role Mutation
Prompt: Choose a component or agent in your system. Now mutate its role — give it an unexpected function, incentive, or behavior rule. Explore how the rest of the system reorganizes to compensate or adapt. What emergent dynamics result?
Why it works: Shows flexibility and hidden dependency structures. Reveals the adaptive grammar of a system.

5. Frame Collision
Prompt: Reframe your concept or problem using two unrelated metaphors or disciplinary lenses (e.g., biology + urban planning). Now merge them. What ideas emerge from the tension or overlap? Do this three times producing three ideas each time.
Why it works: This is discord by design. Cross-domain collisions spark interpretive shifts and unexpected synthesis