Systemic Relational Reconfiguration Principle (SRRP)
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This paper develops the Systemic Relational Reconfiguration Principle (SRRP), a candidate domain-independent systems principle proposed from a trauma-conditioned psychological primary case and generalized through clinical psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience-compatible mechanistic reasoning, and mathematical systems theory.
The central claim is deliberately weaker than a universal law: a perturbation can alter the relational organization of a system; when such reconfiguration changes its functional organization, the mapping from state, input, and context to subsequent response can also change.
The primary case is treated as an anchor rather than as proof of the principle. The paper separates phenomenological description, mechanistic interpretation, mathematical representation, simulation, and empirical evidence.
A common state-space substrate is supplied for both agentic and autonomous systems, with policy selection represented as a special branch rather than a separate ontology. The architecture contains three analytical layers, ten case studies per layer, thirty case representations in total, and a fourteen-step PEP-ESD protocol covering primary-case definition, decomposition, perturbation, relational reconfiguration, functional reorganization, psychological and neuroscientific mapping, mathematical branching, boundary analysis, falsification, counterexamples, and empirical validation.
The paper explicitly rejects diagnosis from the abstract model, unsupported anatomical claims, fabricated data, and the classification of divergence as the fundamental mechanism. SRRP is presented as a testable candidate principle, not as an established universal law.
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