Design Sense: Outer Vision

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Label
Outer Vision
Value
outer_vision
Variable
designSense

Design Sense, often called cognition, describes the sense a body takes the world in through most reliably. It is not a preference. It is which channel of perception carries the most trustworthy information for this design.

Mechanically it is Tone: the layer beneath Colour, six values, read at the relevant activation. That is also why it is sensitive to birth time, and why the sa

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Provenance: rewritten 2026-08-20: the first draft described only the literal looking and missed the aesthetic dimension, which independent sources agree is the operative part