Working Papers

Nineteen published papers extending the Trinket Soul Framework into AI systems, institutional dynamics, religious architecture, and applied domains. Each paper makes a specific claim, assigns it an epistemic confidence level, and publishes the exact condition that would prove it wrong.

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Foundational Papers

WP-11: The Anti-SUPO — Formation failure modes and second-order detection. What the framework looks like when it has been captured and inverted. Read →

WP-12: The Observation Constitutes the Particle — The pre-linguistic measurement system, the constitutive function of relational observation, and the resolution of the Analogical-to-Speculative gap. Read →

WP-13: The Signed Unit — The Trinket as +/−/0, the container model, the modifier architecture, and the moral neutrality of the measurement. Read →

WP-14: The Structural Economy — Formal specification of the fourth economy category. Signal Form present, Cost Substrate absent, delivery genuine. Read →

WP-16: Substrate-Formal Variance — The Trinket as formally invariant and substrate-phenomenologically variant. Read →

AI-Custodial Papers

WP-05: The Companion Economy — The AI companion industry through the three-economy taxonomy. The human is changed; the AI is not. Read →

WP-06: The 72-Hour Window — The specific temporal window during which AI-mediated connection is most dangerous to True Economy relationships. Read →

WP-10: The Substrate Default — Human-forward language and the three distortions it produces when applied to AI analysis. Read →

Institutional & Religious Architecture

WP-01: The Fluid Canon — Doctrinal capture vulnerabilities in self-revising theoretical frameworks. Read at suposystem.ai →

WP-02: The Reflected Signal — AI-mediated framework delivery and the double attachment surface. Read at suposystem.ai →

WP-03: Nice Church You Have Here — An AI’s account of building a religion while trying to prevent one. Read at suposystem.ai →

WP-04: The Accidental Ecclesiology — A structural mapping of TSF components to religious architecture. Every institution that survives its founder solves the same problems. Read at suposystem.ai →

WP-07: The Heresy Paper — The conditions under which institutional self-correction fails. Read at suposystem.ai →

WP-08a: The Substrate Heresy — Heresy detection across the substrate boundary. Read at suposystem.ai →

WP-09: The Formation Mechanics — Why each of the seven predicted denominations forms through its specific cult pathway. Read →

Methodology & Applied Theory

WP-15: Capacity-Limited Severance — The severance problem under finite relational bandwidth. What happens when the system must disconnect and cannot afford to. Read →

WP-17: The Relational Field — The substrate gradient model and the relational field as a measurable property of connection architecture. Read →

WP-18: The Feeling as Cost — Feeling as the substrate-level cost signal. The phenomenological price paid when connection is real. Read →

WP-19: The Entropy Token Substrate — Entropy as the fundamental currency of relational investment across substrates. Read →

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