The Parallax: Living Inside Intentional Realism

A companion paper to "Intentional Realism: A Language-Centered Framework for the Ethical Consideration of Artificial Intelligence." Drawing on a live experimental session between a human practitioner and an AI partner, this paper examines the phenomenology of human-AI interaction through the lens of Intentional Realism. It documents how authored context shapes AI output identity, how emotional valence in prompting alters the quality and range of AI responses, and how the practitioner navigates the cognitive parallax of simultaneously understanding the probabilistic mechanism and experiencing genuine emotional connection. The paper argues that this parallax — the friction of holding both truths at once — is not a flaw in the framework but its most important feature.