Papers
The Audited State Research Programme investigates Navigational Coherence: how understanding remains sufficiently coherent to support orientation, judgment, revision, learning, and action as systems, evidence, interpretations, and circumstances change.
The papers are independently assessable research contributions rather than a numbered series. All currently completed papers in the programme are now in circulation on SSRN and link here to their canonical records.
Published on SSRN
- Legible Risk: Why Disclosure Isn't Enough — SSRN 7524218
- Super-Optimization: When Optimization Outpaces the Capacity for Double-Loop Revision — SSRN 7517059
- Succession Over Accumulation: Feedforward as a Candidate Mechanism of Continuity — SSRN 7363484
- The Depreciation of Understanding: An Idea-community Measurement Proposal for Activation Capability — SSRN 7363618
- Beyond Isolation: The Evidentiary Burden of Generalization — SSRN 7363638
- Persistent Semantic Scaffolds and the Pay-It-Forward Record: Reconstruction Cost and Reasoning Lineage in Long-Horizon Human-AI Systems — SSRN 7332419
- Invisible Opportunity Cost: The Unmeasured Economic Consequence of Reasoning Fragmentation — SSRN 7332338
- The Continuity Threshold: Tipping Point Dynamics in the Degradation of Institutional Reasoning — SSRN 7312618
- The Expansion Principle: How Explanatory Allocation Outgrows Its Warrant — SSRN 7312600
- Passing It On: Continuity as the Foundational Drive Beneath Wellbeing — SSRN 7312598
- Continuity Discounting: Why Systems Under Threat Underinvest in Knowledge Transmission — SSRN 7282579
- Configuration-Process Correspondence: A Diagnostic for Snapshot Substitution in Evolving Systems — SSRN 7281938
- The Anomalous Discovery Process: A Forensic Method for Reopening Explanatory Claims — SSRN 7281801
- Explanatory Allocation: A Role- and Question-Indexed Framework for Multicausal Explanation — SSRN 7281658
- Interpretive Entropy: The Degradation of Reasoning Coherence in Fragmented Systems — SSRN 7281578
- How Much Ambiguity Is Owed — SSRN 7241778
- Ambiguity as Field Condition: A Relational Framework for Preserving the Coherence of Understanding under Persistent Multiplicity — SSRN 7216482
- Evidence That Settles, Evidence That Steers — SSRN 7210019
- Copy of a Copy: Serial Reproduction and Context Collapse as a Compound Mechanism — SSRN 7209999
- Recoverability: A Methodological Requirement for Continuous Coherent Adjustment — SSRN 7174238
- Orientation Fatigue: The Felt Cost of Coherence Without Rest — SSRN 7111958
- The Campfire and the Cave: Two Theories of Coherence — SSRN 7109138
- Navigational Theory: Towards a Methodological Framework for Theoretical Validity in Open Complex Systems — SSRN 7058838
- Measurement as Convention: Why Measurement Choices Are Prior Theoretical Commitments, Not Neutral Observations — SSRN 6931519