Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: Latest archived (Mar 2026)
Structural Intelligence (SI) distinguishes coherence from contact and defines intelligence as answerable revision under constraint. This paper formalizes the completion of the SI architecture by integrating the mechanical links between individual presence, biological gating, and societal collapse. It defines Presence through a canonical equation and a reduced analytic relation to isolate systemic disturbances. Intrusion is formalized as foreign agency load operationalized by occupancy of action selection. Structural Debt is introduced as the conserved remainder of unmet contact created by substitution, subject to maintenance inflation. Somatic Capacity is established as the metabolic bandwidth that gates reality-processing. At the macro layer, Network Viscosity and Epistemic Exchange Rate explain the dominance of cheap coherence in the modern grid. Finally, Frictional Design is presented as the interface standard for human–AI sovereignty. The result is a unified architecture that links presence, debt, intrusion, biology, and societal hallucination dynamics into one testable systems theory.
structural intelligence; answerability; cheap coherence; presence; contact; intrusion; occupancy; structural debt; somatic capacity; network viscosity; epistemic exchange rate; frictional design; AI ethics; control theory