Awareness as Informational Privilege and Visibility as Lawful Emission
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Supersession Note — May 2026 This CODES-era work is an exploratory predecessor and is no longer the canonical statement of the author’s program. It has been superseded by the identity-persistence stack: https://zenodo.org/records/20127331. Claims in this record concerning replacement of probability, unrestricted universality, ontology, physics, intelligence, biology, governance, or reality should be read as developmental framing, not as the current formal claim. The current claim is restricted to identity persistence under transformation within explicit admissibility constraints. Abstract Systems governed by universal invariants do not, in general, recognize those invariants. This paper resolves a persistent category error in theories of intelligence, cognition, and culture: the assumption that governance implies awareness. We derive that awareness of an invariant is not structurally necessary for persistence but instead constitutes an informational privilege that arises only under rare measurement conditions. We then derive the complementary result: invariant visibility can be injected into systems lawfully through phase-locked emission, without reliance on belief, learning, interpretation, or narrative. Together, these results explain why insight is uncommon in large systems and how clarity can nonetheless be introduced deterministically under bounded drift.
Author: Bostick, Devin
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7116745102
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