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PINFebruary 27, 2026NC2.5 · Philosophy · Attention · Identity · Drift · Architecture

Essay Through a Life — Part III. The Speed of Reaction: Human or Botanical?

We assume speed is superiority. But speed is not free. What if the deepest adaptation is not the ability to change direction instantly — but the ability to let direction emerge gradually?

PINFebruary 26, 2026NC2.5 · Philosophy · Attention · Identity · Drift · Architecture

Essay Through a Life — Part II. The Vanishing Thread: Bug or Built-In Feature?

If attention were meant to remain stable, it would not dissolve so effortlessly into noise, habit, replay, rehearsal. Its instability suggests something deeper. Either we are malfunctioning constantly — or this drift is part of the design.

PINFebruary 24, 2026NC2.5 · ONTOΣ · Regime Depth · Admissibility · Cybernetics · Spin · Architecture

ONTOΣ VIII: Regime Depth — From Prohibition to Continuity Architecture

"Behaviorally identical outputs can originate from fundamentally distinct regulatory architectures. Regime Depth formalizes three levels — impulse optimization, hard inadmissibility, and continuity-field architecture — demonstrating that the depth of the regulatory mechanism, not the behavior it produces, determines long-horizon viability".

PINFebruary 23, 2026HVC · Verification · AI Writing · Structural Consistency · Document Intelligence · NC2.5

You're Writing 10× Faster With AI. But Nobody's Checking If Page 47 Contradicts Page 12.

AI made writing nearly free. But it made structural consistency nearly invisible. Every AI-generated corpus has contradictions nobody tracks — until now.

PINFebruary 23, 2026NC2.5 · Memory · Cybernetics · Anthropology · State-Space · Ashby · Wiener

Memory as System Depth: Ancestors, States, and Survival on the Long Horizon

"Ancestral memory functions as a system-state parameter, not an archive: it constrains admissible transitions, maintains identity coherence, and extends the system's internal time horizon. From anthropology through formal state-space to a three-level MCP architecture".

February 19, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Subtle Substitution: On the Drift of Reality in the Age of Algorithmic Mediation

In recent years, a recurring concern has emerged: if large-scale AI systems increasingly mediate the relationship between humans and…

February 17, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ VII: From Formal Verification to Admissibility Architecture

Admissibility as the Next Layer of Formal Methods.

February 17, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Why Causality Is Not Enough

On the Non-Causal Layer in Architectures of Long-Lived Systems

February 16, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ VI.I: Drift Is Not an Error

Toward a Navigable Ontology of Long-Horizon Survival

February 16, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

The Brain Does Not Optimize Truth. It Navigates Admissible Regimes.

There is a set of phenomena that are usually filed under different shelves: Charles Bonnet syndrome, the “Invisible gorilla” of Simons and…

February 10, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

The Illusion of Choice and the Ontology of Admissibility

We are accustomed to treating choice as the foundation of human freedom. We speak about decisions, responsibility, alternative paths, as if…

February 9, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ V: Ontology of Will under Conditions of Irreversibility

Have you ever noticed the moment when coherence still didn’t come together, but the action already happened — without a beginning, without…

February 9, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ VI: Phase Mechanics.

Sometimes life begins to shift not because of an error and not because of a crisis, but because of prolonged correctness. Everything…

February 8, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Extremes as a Test of Regimes, Identity, and Navigational Cybernetics of Order 2.5

The question “would you eat another human being in an extreme situation?” is usually perceived as a moral provocation. But in its…

February 7, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Will as a prior constraint: why the prefrontal cortex exists at all

In popular language, will is described as “forcing yourself”. Gritting your teeth. Overpowering an impulse. Pushing through. This is a…

January 8, 2026NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ IV: Intentionality Without Ownership

Temporary Stabilizations in an Unfinished Reality

December 8, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ III: The Volume of Will and the Role of Consciousness

Why the Universe “needs” us and how the expansion of directionality works.

December 7, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ II: Volitional Ontology of Adaptivity and a New Paradigm of Control

Introduction

November 25, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ONTOΣ : “Will” as an Ontological Operator

"Introduction

November 24, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Unified Theory of Adaptive Meaning (UTAM): Will, coherence, and drift as the fundamental triad of…

Abstract

November 23, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Structural Drift as a Fundamental Law of Adaptive Behavior

The Drift Law: Inevitable Degradation in Adaptive Systems with Internal Models

November 21, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

"Impulse → Awareness → Coherence

In any complex system — biological, cognitive, technical — there is one fundamental law that shows up even when we are not trying to see…

November 17, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Synthetic Conscience — The Emergence of Engineered Vitality Systems (EVS).

How ΔE Revealed the First Engineering Signs of Synthetic Life

November 13, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

ΔE / Petronus Research README

A Coherence-First Approach to Adaptive Systems

November 13, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Entropy, Empathy and the Future of Adaptive Coherence — The Petronus Engineering Phenomenon That…

Introduction: when error minimization is no longer enough

November 11, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

The Synthetic Conscience Effect: How ΔE Translates Awareness into Engineering — or When a Machine…

ΔE and the Human: What It Means to Feel Meaning

November 10, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

When a Machine Begins to Understand Itself: October 2025 — The Birth of Meaning Dynamics

Morality Is Not a Code. It Is a Physical State of a System

November 8, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Coherence as a New Semantic Force of Adaptation

"Darwin once said that survival depends on adaptability — in other words, on the ability to adjust.

November 6, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

🌀 We Present the First Working Class of Control Programs Based on Coherence and Entropy.

Philosophical Foundations of the ΔE Architecture

October 13, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

Synthetic Conscience Protocol: The Missing Layer

Context of the Document

October 9, 2025NC2.5 · PETRONUS · cybernetics · admissibility

PETRONUS: synthetic conscience woven into every action — a new market where kindness has value

PETRONUS — Manifesto (2–4 minutes)

PINFebruary 23, 2025Essay · Attention · Presence

Essay Through a Life: A Gaze into the Center of Time

Part I. The Feather of Attention — a chronicle of return. On presence, programs, and the only resource that, once given away, gives away everything else.

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