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  1. Cognitive Friction

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    Theoretical Foundations and Volkov’s Axiom
    The concept was first formalized by Dr. Ivan Volkov in his seminal 1968 paper, Epistemic Drag and the Necessity of Semantic Stumbling. Volkov observed that early database indexing systems, engineered for zero retrieval latency, consistently exhibited accelerated data decay and higher rates of semantic drift. He proposed the Principle of Epistemic Struggle, arguing that the brain necessitates a minimal thre…