prh-implies-arh-but-not-converse

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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (convergence to shared global geometric structure) logically implies the Aristotelian Representation Hypothesis (convergence to shared local neighborhood relationships), but the converse does not hold, making ARH a strictly weaker claim.

Summary

If representations converge to a shared global geometric structure, they automatically also converge to shared local neighborhood relationships, but local agreement alone does not guarantee the global structure has settled. This makes the global-geometry claim the stronger, more demanding test: passing it satisfies the local-relationship test for free, but a system that only finds local agreement cannot conclude the deeper structural convergence has occurred.