Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: Latest archived (Apr 2026)
This paper argues that Structural Intelligence should be understood not as a closed doctrine or final ontology, but as a cross-domain operating pattern for reading how local forms become viable in a field, carry burden, stabilize through coherence or regulation, drift when contact thins, and reorganize only when answerability returns strongly enough to alter the holder itself. The paper strengthens this claim through biology and evolution, arguing that organisms are bounded local holders that must maintain viability through metabolism, regulation, exchange, and selection under real environmental constraint. Evolution extends the SI pattern across time: viable forms persist, fields are modified, new pressures are generated, and higher-order holders emerge, stabilize, or fail. The result is a disciplined framework for tracking viability, burden, drift, capture, answerability, and reorganization across psyche, institutions, AI, physics, and biology.
Structural Intelligence; operating pattern; field; local form; viability; burden; coherence; contact; answerability; evolution; niche construction; ecological scaffolding; major transitions in individuality; institutions; psyche; AI; physics; biology