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. The SI corpus has mapped the psyche under persona and shadow, AI risk under coherence-first interaction, and institutional decay under standardization and the grid. Yet several mechanisms remained under-formalized: how systems become occupied despite insight, where bypassed contact goes, how worth becomes invariant, how biology gates contact, how to survive inside grid incentives, and how AI interfaces can prevent coherence-theater from masquerading as truth. This paper integrates the completion layers into a single architecture. Intrusion is formalized as foreign agency load operationalized by occupancy of action selection. Structural Debt is introduced as conserved unmet contact obligations created by substitution and actorhood. Relational Anchoring explains how fixed worth becomes non-zero through containment. Somatic Capacity names the biological bandwidth that gates whether contact can be metabolized while pilot access remains online. Exit Architecture names structural decoupling from grid reward-pressure channels, while Network Viscosity and Epistemic Exchange Rate explain why cheap coherence dominates at scale. The paper closes with operational proxies, falsifiers, and falsifiable predictions that convert SI from descriptive philosophy into testable systems theory.
structural intelligence; answerability; cheap coherence; presence; contact; binding; intrusion; occupancy; structural debt; fixed worth; relational anchoring; somatic capacity; exit architecture; viscosity; epistemic exchange rate; AI ethics; grounding; reliability; control theory; frictional design