A subjective experience reported during intensive AI use in which a user perceives their own thinking boundaries as widening; a phenomenal state of the user, not a claim about expanded capacity in the AI.
Rated as the strength of the user's felt sense of cognitive expansion during or right after intensive sessions, captured by direct self-report of perceived broadening of one's own thinking.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Phenomenological self-report: a perceived-cognitive-expansion scale (3-5 items, 1-7 Likert anchored 'not at all' to 'very much') completed post-session, could be reported as a mean rating with internal-consistency reliability.
https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-emotion-affect