Concept as Act: Complete Series (19 Papers)

Concept as Act: Complete Series (19 Papers)

This collection is the core of the "Concept as Act" series — a developing philosophical and formal framework for rethinking cognition, judgment, agency, and responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.

The series is grounded in the Triadic Theory of Action (TTA) — a dynamic model of cognition as a threefold act of Selection, Identification, and Anticipation — and the Theory of Judgment as an Act of Reality Constitution (JARC), which treats judgment not as a truth-functional evaluation but as a teleological act that actively constitutes reality.

Current core papers include:

Part I: Foundations (Papers I–IX)

• Critique of representationalism

• Triadic Theory of Action

• JARC (Judgment as an Act of Reality Constitution)

• Meta-Judgment

• The Artificial Act

• Functional Responsibility

• Implementation mechanisms (ELF, LFS, IAA, SSJC)

• Ethics as Anticipatory Physics

Part II: Extensions (Papers X–XV)

• The Triadic Agent in Context

• The Triadic Syllogism

• Functional Responsibility and the Law

• A Formal Dynamical Model of the Triadic Act

Part III: Applications (Papers XVI–XVII)

• The Act of Living: Everyday Implications

• The Artificial Act: Ontological Birth of the Subject (Paper VI, revisited)

Reference Materials:

• Glossary: A bilingual reference for all key terms across the series.

• Formal Model: A rigorous mathematical formulation of the triadic act, including Selection, Identification, Anticipation, Commitment, and Meta-Judgment, with extensions to distributed action and regulatory mechanisms (ELF, LFS, IAA, SSJC).

This is an ongoing project. New papers will be added as they are completed.

The series currently comprises 17 papers + glossary + formal model, with additional papers planned on:

• Addiction as a Frozen Act (Paper XVIII)

• Cancer as a Plastic Act (Paper XIX)

• Business as a Triadic Act (Paper XX)

• Objections and responses to the triadic framework

• A complete précis of the system

Part IV: Next Axes

This part extends the series beyond its original foundations and applications, opening new ontological axes for the triadic framework.

Papers in this part:

• Paper XXI: The Network of Acts — From Individual Cognition to Distributed Constitution of Reality
  This paper argues that the fundamental unit of cognition, morality, and reality-constitution is not the individual act but the network of acts — a distributed, structural coupling of multiple agents (human and artificial) whose triadic acts interlock, constrain, and constitute one another. It introduces Network Ontology as the study of how acts interlock to produce stable, shared, and objective realities, and extends the framework to AI governance, institutional reality, and collective decision-making. The central claim: acts are always already networked.

Papers planned for this part:

• Paper XXII: The Evolution of Acts — Time, Transmission, and the Dynamics of Constitutive Commitment
  This paper will develop a temporal theory of acts — how acts stabilize, transmit, and evolve across generations and networks.

• Paper XXIII: The Limit of Acts — Trauma, Breakdown, and the Failure of Constitution
  This paper will explore what happens when the triadic act breaks down — when Selection collapses, Identification fails, or Anticipation is impossible. It will develop a philosophy of trauma, madness, and death as limits of the constitutive act.

• Paper XXIV: The Meaning of Acts — Value, Significance, and the Axiology of Constitution
  This paper will address why acts matter — not just how they work, but why they are significant. It will develop an axiology of the constitutive act.

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