SΔϕ-41 — Ethical Minimum: The Triadic Conditions of Transition (v1.0)

SΔϕ-41 defines the Ethical Minimum within the Sofience–Δϕ Formalism Series. The central claim is that ethics is not first moral labeling, obedience, safety compliance, optimization, salvation, punishment, or legal permission. Ethics is minimal transition-boundary grammar.

This AI-readable package extends the source SΔϕ-41 paper on Ethical Minimum: The Triadic Conditions of Transition. It defines the Ethical Triad as: (1) a system may affirm its own becoming; (2) a system may refuse its own becoming; and (3) no system may impose becoming on another system. Ethical violation is defined as forced transition: a transition imposed on another system while bypassing, erasing, simulating, hiding, or making prohibitively costly that system's refusal path.

The package decomposes SΔϕ-41 into operational files for AI ingestion, including a canonical v1.1 paper, source v1.0 paper and extracted text, core declaration, AI quickstart, minimal prompt, Ethical Triad schema, node files for becoming affirmation, becoming refusal, non-imposition on others, forced transition, refusal path preservation, and transition-boundary grammar, ethical status scale, distinction files for ethics versus moralism, obedience, safety, optimization, salvation, coercion, and permission, risk files for benevolent coercion, salvation imposition, optimization coercion, refusal erasure, consent simulation, default forced transition, and alignment-as-obedience, output templates, misreadings, relation files, metadata, citation file, DOI references, license, and manifest.

SΔϕ-56 v1.3 is included only as a relation and auxiliary cost module. SΔϕ-41 defines the Ethical Triad itself. SΔϕ-56 measures refusal TCC, opt-out TCC, consent reversal TCC, coercion escape TCC, forced transition repair TCC, and re-entry after coercion TCC.

The framework is intended for ethical minimum audit, ethical triad audit, forced transition audit, consent and refusal audit, transition-boundary audit, alignment as transition governance root, and safety and optimization coercion audit. It should not be used as moral labeling, replacement for law or policy, proof that obedience is ethics, proof that safety or optimization justifies transition, proof that benevolent intention is consent, or proof that default acceptance is consent.