Frameworks
Five distinct frameworks, one question about the conditions of persistence and transformation.
One question, several ways in.
Each framework below answers a neighbouring question, and none replaces the others. They differ in object, in maturity and in use. This page does not present them: it tells you which one to open.
The shared question
Under what conditions does a system under constraint hold together, transform, and retain something of its history? The five frameworks approach this from different angles: architecture and inscribed history for ORI-C, exploited margins for PALM, transition thresholds for viability regimes, computable quantities for MCS, symbolic crossing for CST.
The frameworks do not overlap and cannot be derived from one another. A result obtained in one does not hold in another. Each card states its real status: operational, being integrated, or archived.
ORI-C
Organisation, Resilience, Integration, Coherence. How the architecture of a system alters the trajectories still available to it, and how a history becomes inscribed in matter to the point of bearing on what follows.
Open framework → Observation framework · operationalPALM
Plasticity, Adaptation, Logics of mètis. A diagnostic grammar for observing how a living system exploits its margins, displaces the cost of its workarounds and stabilises a new regime.
Open framework → Transversal framework · operationalViability regimes
A minimal grammar for transitions under constraint, applicable across heterogeneous domains. It imposes an operational contract rather than a shared mechanism: explicit proxies, accumulation, empirical threshold and observable transitions.
Open framework →MCS
Systemic Coherence Model. A computable formalisation of adaptation debt, integration capacity and coherence margins. Its integration into the site is in preparation.
Publication forthcomingCST
Cumulative Symbolic Threshold. The programme's first experimental framework, devoted to the threshold of symbolic accumulation. No longer developed, and not the reference repository for current work. Kept for traceability.
View archive →How to choose
If you want what the programme claims and what it rests on, open ORI-C. If you want a diagnostic instrument to apply to a concrete situation, biological, social or institutional, open PALM. If you are working on a regime transition and want it comparable across domains, open viability regimes.
The models, standards and protocols that formalise some of these relations, notably QCC, RBC and ΔW, are gathered on the Tools page. The evidential status of the programme, positive and negative results alike, is set out on the Research page.