01 · Governed adaptation
Stratified Plasticity
How an intelligent system can change without rewriting itself
Essay · Published
High behavioural plasticity; low constitutional drift.
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Systems for
accountable change.
Research and essays by Sean Manouge.
What survives change — and what gives a successor the right to inherit it?
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Continuity
What the Future Inherits
Essay · Draft introduction
Responsibility, authority, and commitments across change.
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02 · Continuity and evidence
Show Me How You Changed
Why persistent intelligence needs an inspectable history
Essay · Published
A record of what changed, why, and what happened differently afterward.
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03 · Human time
The Human Time Dividend
A Measurable Theory of Human Return from Automation
Dissertation · Canonical edition v1.0
Institutional burden, constitutional machine authority, and the end of meaningless effort.
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