Paper 55 · VIII. Later Regime Extensions & Structural Synthesis
Irreversibility in Knowledge Systems
In production (complete)A distinct irreversibility analysis focused on epistemic diffusion rather than artifact replication.
Function in corpus
Defines epistemic irreversibility as a separate analytical domain. It complements the replication paper by shifting attention from persistence of copies to persistence of reconstructability.
Details
Connected papers: Constraint Carriers Before Codes; Irreversibility Thresholds in Replicating Systems; Restoration Geometry; Epistemic Regimes: Truth, Diagnosis, and Structural Warrant in Informational Ontology The paper distinguishes artifact possession, operational capability, and reconstructive knowledge, then argues that containment can fail even when no complete artifact or active system remains. Once reconstructive capacity becomes distributed across documents, fragments, tacit practices, institutions, and inference pathways, removing all admissible reconstruction routes may exceed feasible limits of coordination, access, and verification.
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