The Turing Theory and the Law of the Dead Asset: Institutional Time, Cognitive Risk, and Sanctified Erasure

This preprint introduces the Turing Theory, a diagnostic framework for analysing institutional recognition failure in which surplus cognition is excluded during life and valorised only after neutralisation. Anchored in the Law of the Dead Asset, the paper examines how institutions extract cognitive value while deferring recognition until operational risk is removed, with implications for AI governance, epistemic justice, and evaluative systems.