Author: Florian Morin
Year: 2026
Type: Research note
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This note proposes that under specific conditions, evaluative monitoring is delayed, creating a short window during which action can occur without immediate capture by meaning, optimization, or judgment processes.
Evaluation is not removed. It is delayed. This delay creates a transient window where non-instrumental actions can occur before being integrated into the monitoring system.
In baseline conditions, evaluation emerges almost immediately after or even before action, in the form of meaning-search and correctness checks.
Under M-ZRT conditions, a combination of prediction disruption and suspension of optimization shifts the onset of evaluation by a few seconds. During this interval, the action is not yet interpreted, optimized, or judged.
This temporal gap allows the introduction of micro-events that are not immediately captured.
The window is fragile. Repetition, anticipation, or attempts to optimize the process reactivate the monitoring system and collapse the effect.
Morin, F. (2026). The Morin Z-Reduction Task (M-ZRT): Suspension of Instrumental Framing as a Threshold Mechanism for Ease. Preprint. Canonical version: https://florianmorin.com/Morin-Z-Reduction-Task.html.