Narrative Provenance
Adopted by early AI theorists to explain why "prompting" felt like a misnomer. Users weren't just "ordering" text; they were participating in a "growing together" of intent and latent space. The concrescence is the atomic unit of the "Third Space"—an event that is not fully human, not fully machine, but a novel unification of both.
Field Notes & Ephemera
Excavation Note: "The Meld." Power users often described the peak of a coding session not as "using a tool" but as a "concrescence of intent"—where the boundary between their thought and the AI's suggestion dissolved.
Trivia: Whitehead originally used the term to describe how the universe perpetually recreates itself in "drops of experience."