Informational Ontology — Complete Corpus

Defines difference, relation, information, awareness, value, meaning, and purpose as a structural regime sequence (Δ → R → I → A → V → M → P).

Foundational ontology. All definitions and downstream constraints derive from this framework.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18602429

Condensed articulation of the master ontology with reduced exploratory scaffolding.

Accessible entry point and compatibility reference.

Defines systemhood, boundary coherence, and criteria for identity persistence.

Load-bearing identity mechanics for all lineage, drift, and collapse analyses.

Formalizes ordering relations and directional asymmetry between constraints.

Grounds irreversibility and persistence geometry downstream.

Explains how underdetermined systems resolve without structural collapse.

Stabilizes transitions in agency, free will, and salience models.

Demonstrates structural openness without metaphysical indeterminism.

Bridges determinism and agency architecture.

Defends structural differentiation against quantum indeterminacy objections.

Physics-facing stabilization of the ontology.

Establishes structural persistence prior to Darwinian selection.

Clarifies that lineage continuity precedes evolutionary optimization.

Analyzes the emergence of self-maintaining constraint systems.

Grounds biological lineage within the regime ladder.

Explains differential persistence across structural levels.

Connects evolutionary theory to regime architecture.

Identifies pre-symbolic structural carriers of constraint.

Grounds biological organization prior to genetic coding.

Defines sedimentation as retained constraint accumulation across lineage without invoking purpose.

Canonical model of irreversible structural buildup.

Analyzes gradual modification of identity-maintaining constraints.

Clarifies how identity evolves without reset.

Formal inverse of sedimentation; examines unwinding and restoration limits.

Completes the geometry of persistence and recovery.

Identifies topology-based thresholds where recall collapses under replication.

Replication containment diagnostic framework.

Demonstrates identity-bound reachability collapse under differential scaling.

Formal collapse model under acceleration; replaces Execution–Intervention.

Argues purposive constraint cannot persist absent living originators.

Teleological boundary condition of automation regimes.

Structural account of underdetermination and valuation resolution.

Defines architecture of action spaces.

Analyzes manipulation as salience restructuring rather than agency bypass.

Influence mechanics under AI mediation.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18615483

Models addiction as trajectory-level salience monopoly.

Demonstrates local constraint saturation dynamics.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18615577

Diagnoses systemic degradation of meaningful differentiation under overload.

Macro-level salience destabilization model.

Explains persistent misalignment without malfunction.

Structural explanation of alignment failure.

Treats meaning as structural constraint effect rather than representation.

Non-representational theory of meaning.

Explains purpose as emergent trajectory constraint without final causes.

Prepares Silence Limit boundary argument.

Defines vulnerability as lineage-relevant susceptibility to irreversible loss.

Grounds consequence and responsibility.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18602897

Formalizes witnessing as termination of consequence within vulnerable loci.

Load-bearing bridge to governance.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18602797

Specifies structural requirements for witnessing under scale and AI mediation.

Clarifies termination mechanics.

Analyzes distributed constraint contribution under scale.

Extends responsibility into hybrid systems.

Explains ethics as stabilized structural regimes.

Connects ontology to moral structure.

Bridges structural responsibility and institutional practice.

Institutional application layer.

Diagnoses AI-mediated thinning of coercive regimes.

Governance collapse diagnostic.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18603017

Distinguishes legitimate automation from degenerative thinning.

Automation transition framework.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18615343

Analyzes structural depletion of legitimacy.

Explains regime fragility.

Maps authority topology after constraint commitment.

Authority mechanics.

Explains escalation when witnessing collapses.

Force substitution model.

Treats markets as distributed constraint coordination systems.

Large-scale stabilization without central authority.

Applies ontology to alignment constraints.

Structural reframing of AI alignment.

Identifies necessary structural coherence conditions.

Constrains alignment discourse.

Diagnostic framework for tracing consequence chains.

Applied alignment auditing tool.

Explains alignment failure without malfunction.

Corrects common AI safety misdiagnosis.

Explores governance after witnessing collapse.

Edge-of-intelligibility boundary analysis.

Diagnoses trajectory compatibility between human and AI systems.

Clarifies feasibility constraints.

Analyzes AI’s structural role in philosophical reasoning.

Defines limits of AI participation in theory construction.

Structural account of truth-diagnostic regimes.

Knowledge stabilization framework.

Formal maintenance doctrine for epistemic regimes under stress.

Ensures self-vulnerability and diagnostic rigor.

Treats logic as stabilized regime rather than metaphysical primitive.

Meta-epistemic stabilization of reasoning itself.