From Latent Connectivity to Functional Cooperation: The Law of Autocatalytic Inevitability in Harm-Free Referential Networks

This is a preprint of a theoretical manuscript currently under journal submission.

The paper develops the architectural implications of the Law of Autocatalytic Inevitability. It shows how large-scale peer-to-peer cooperation becomes structurally deterministic and behavior-independent under three empirically grounded constraints: harm-free participation, strict referential inheritance, and a Dunbar-stable empathic degree.

The formal discovery and proof of the Law of Autocatalytic Inevitability were presented in a prior Zenodo publication:
Lubalin, A. (2025). “Discovery of the Law of Autocatalytic Inevitability: A New Natural Law Governing Network Self-Organization”, Zenodo.

The present work does not restate the discovery of the law. Instead, it focuses on the architectural and societal consequences of the law for decentralization, governance irrelevance, and the emergence of self-regulating cooperative environments.

The results operate at the same level of abstraction as thermodynamics or information theory: the framework does not model social behavior, culture, or political preferences, but establishes hard structural limits on cooperative capacity under explicitly defined architectural constraints.