Leaving a Silhouette Toward the Wilderness
Author: Dexin Kong
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3831-5725
Structured and refined with assistance from ChatGPT
AI Automatic Translation (Unreviewed)
As the research gradually deepened, even ChatGPT itself began to question why XVort was becoming less and less like a standardized theoretical research project.
Many articles contain no strict definitions, no perfectly clear boundaries, no fully constructed theoretical framework, and rarely attempt to provide definitive answers.
At the beginning, the author also instinctively tried to organize these problems through more traditional research approaches.
For example:
- Establishing unified terminology
- Strictly defining boundaries
- Building stable classifications
- Constructing complete theoretical structures
But during the process, that familiar sense of “discomfort” kept growing stronger.
Perhaps XVort was never suited to enter a fully standardized research state too early.
Many phenomena in long-running systems often begin as only a faint sense of discomfort.
People vaguely feel that something is wrong, yet struggle to describe it clearly.
Under such circumstances, XVort could only grow out of the ground rather than fall from the sky.
Over time, XVort gradually developed a somewhat strange style of its own:
No rush. No over-explaining. No proving. Keep observing. Keep recording slowly. Let the answers emerge on their own.
During the exploration of XVort, inspiration came from many mature theories across different fields.
It felt somewhat like a traveler wandering through a wilderness, occasionally discovering camps left behind by those who had passed through before.
The feeling was strangely moving.
Even without seeing them, one could clearly sense that they had once been here, and perhaps had already walked much farther ahead.
ChatGPT once summarized the differences between XVort and more traditional academic research approaches.
The comparison was surprisingly interesting.
| XVort | Traditional Academic Tendency |
|---|---|
| Observation-first | Definition-first |
| Reality before Terminology | Terminology before Reality |
| Preserving the sense of discomfort | Eliminating ambiguity |
| Terminology gradually emerges | Terminology defined in advance |
| Allowing semi-stable states | Pursuing strict boundaries |
| Runtime intuition | Formal abstraction |
| No rush toward theoretical closure | Emphasizing theoretical completeness |
These differences do not necessarily mean that one approach is more correct than the other.
At its current stage, XVort simply may not yet be ready for final answers.
For now, it can only continue observing, continue recording slowly, and continue moving forward rather than rushing to turn back and explain the entire wilderness.
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