Constraint-Type and Explanatory Levels

Function in corpus

Methodological stabilizer for the corpus. It prevents state-space, scale, and dynamical-systems readings from flattening the regime ladder into a single-level story.

Details

Connected papers: Informational Ontology; Regime Predicates and the Limits of State-Space Reduction; Constraint, Reachability, and Regime Structure in Informational Ontology; What the System Cannot See — Why AI Fails Without Error The paper addresses a common interpretive risk: later regime transitions can look like mere increases in descriptive complexity unless one distinguishes trajectory constraints from persistence-rule architecture and other constraint forms. By doing so, it formalizes why explanatory levels in IO are not simply scales of the same thing.

Availability

This paper is listed for orientation and dependency tracking. No public PDF or Zenodo record is linked yet.