Paper 21 · IV. Agency & Salience Mechanics

Salience Collapse and Meaning Saturation

In production (complete)

Diagnoses systemic degradation of meaningful differentiation under overload.

Function in corpus

Macro-level salience destabilization model.

Details

• Key move: Salience collapse is a distinct structural failure mode - recognizable ex ante through the collapse of backgrounding, staging, and deferral mechanisms - that produces reactive, br… • Corpus role: Generalizes Paper 20's saturation mechanism to field-wide and collective contexts. • Scope note: The corpus needed a macro-level account to pair with the individual-level account in Paper 20.

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