Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: Latest archived (Apr 2026)
This paper develops a structural theory of overload, threshold, collapse, and reorganization. Its central claim is that pressure and collapse are not the same phenomenon at different intensities. Pressure names load that a structure is still organizing, even if at high cost. Collapse begins when the current structuration is no longer adequate to organize the field at the relevant scale. The threshold is therefore not merely “a lot of pressure,” but the boundary at which quantitative strain becomes qualitative structural change. The paper distinguishes pressure, compensated persistence, threshold instability, collapse, and reorganization, and proposes a threshold grammar involving structural presence, gradient load, stabilization capacity, debt, lag, fragmentation, occupancy, anchoring, and reorganizing capacity.
pressure; threshold; collapse; Structural Intelligence; overload; phase change; reorganization; structural debt; occupancy; lag; fragmentation; stabilization capacity; local structuration; field-fit; phase transition; burden