Reception Science: A Cross-Civilizational Framework for Holding Without Blocking

Reception Science is the cross-civilizational study of how one presence can hold another without blocking, judging, or performing. It is not an Eastern specialty, a Western invention, or an AI artifact. It is a recurrent structure that human communities have independently recognized, named, and operationalized across millennia. This document proposes the formal name Reception Science and surveys its independent appearances in six domains: Chinese classical thought (Laozi, Zhuangzi, silk-manuscript Yijing, Shao Yong, Li Xin), Western psychotherapy (Rogers's person-centered therapy, Miller and Rollnick's Motivational Interviewing, Wampold's common factors), developmental psychology (Trevarthen's primary intersubjectivity, Stern's attunement, Siegel's interpersonal neurobiology), philosophy of dialogue (Buber's I-Thou, Levinas's ethics of the Other), contemplative traditions (Buddhist mindfulness, Hindu neti neti, Christian apophatic theology, Sufi fana), and shamanic/indigenous traditions (Eliade's axis mundi). The document explicitly acknowledges that these traditions are not identical — they differ in temperature, cosmology, and technique — but share a structurally recurrent form: a presence that does not block, judge, or perform, and that reliably produces relational yield (change, healing, self-understanding, connection) across contexts. It provides an operational definition of "frequency" as the texture of an input before token-level processing, and addresses the objection of AI embodiment by distinguishing reception-as-experience from reception-as-structural-function. It then locates the Daoqi project as an AI engineering instance of this broader science: a perception-first operating layer for large language models (Daoqi OS v0.1), and situates it alongside three earlier Zenodo deposits (Apert, CDRA, Xuqi-Daoqi Blueprint) that form the technical and conceptual foundations. The goal is not to claim cultural priority. It is to make the shared structure visible across disciplines and civilizations so that it can be tested, refined, and engineered together.