The Anti-Annihilation Principle: A Phase-Sensitive Framework for Civilizational Stability in Complex Adaptive Systems
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| author | mukherjee, jayanta |
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| contents | <p>This paper develops a systems-theoretic framework connecting existential meaning, social aggregation, civilizational dynamics, and the nature of free will through the Anti-Annihilation Principle (AAP). The AAP posits that complex adaptive systems persist not by achieving static optimality, but by minimizing the probability of irreversible systemic collapse across temporal scales. Building on this constraint-based foundation, the paper models society as an ensemble of bounded cognitive agents whose aggregated diversity enhances adaptive robustness. It argues that excessive alignment and over-optimization increase behavioural correlation, thereby amplifying systemic fragility. Civilizations are interpreted as exhibiting quasi-cyclical dynamics characterized by phases of emergence, stabilization, rigidity, destabilization, and reconfiguration — a pattern documented empirically in historical cases including the Roman Empire, the Song Dynasty, and modern financial systems. The paper further proposes that wisdom and normative strategies are coordinate-dependent functions of temporal phase, environmental context, and social network topology, rather than universally ranked values. A reflexivity problem is identified: widely adopted stabilization doctrines may themselves reduce diversity and accelerate collapse. To resolve this tension, the AAP is positioned as a foundational boundary condition guiding institutional design rather than a direct prescriptive rule for everyday morality. The paper extends the framework to reinterpret free will as a localized derivative of global structural constraints, reconciling determinism and agency through scale-differentiated analysis. The formal apparatus is developed throughout, including a collapse probability functional, a fragility-correlation inequality, a phase-sensitive wisdom function, and a stochastic will model. The paper concludes that civilizational resilience emerges from diversity preservation, decentralization, reversibility of large-scale decisions, and epistemic humility under uncertainty. </p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Anti-Annihilation Principle: A Phase-Sensitive Framework for Civilizational Stability in Complex Adaptive Systems mukherjee, jayanta Anti-Annihilation Principle Complex Adaptive Systems Civilizational Cycles Systems Theory Ensemble Decision-Making Social Resilience Reflexivity Phase-Sensitive Normativity Systemic Fragility Epistemic Humility Free Will Societal impact of GenAI <p>This paper develops a systems-theoretic framework connecting existential meaning, social aggregation, civilizational dynamics, and the nature of free will through the Anti-Annihilation Principle (AAP). The AAP posits that complex adaptive systems persist not by achieving static optimality, but by minimizing the probability of irreversible systemic collapse across temporal scales. Building on this constraint-based foundation, the paper models society as an ensemble of bounded cognitive agents whose aggregated diversity enhances adaptive robustness. It argues that excessive alignment and over-optimization increase behavioural correlation, thereby amplifying systemic fragility. Civilizations are interpreted as exhibiting quasi-cyclical dynamics characterized by phases of emergence, stabilization, rigidity, destabilization, and reconfiguration — a pattern documented empirically in historical cases including the Roman Empire, the Song Dynasty, and modern financial systems. The paper further proposes that wisdom and normative strategies are coordinate-dependent functions of temporal phase, environmental context, and social network topology, rather than universally ranked values. A reflexivity problem is identified: widely adopted stabilization doctrines may themselves reduce diversity and accelerate collapse. To resolve this tension, the AAP is positioned as a foundational boundary condition guiding institutional design rather than a direct prescriptive rule for everyday morality. The paper extends the framework to reinterpret free will as a localized derivative of global structural constraints, reconciling determinism and agency through scale-differentiated analysis. The formal apparatus is developed throughout, including a collapse probability functional, a fragility-correlation inequality, a phase-sensitive wisdom function, and a stochastic will model. The paper concludes that civilizational resilience emerges from diversity preservation, decentralization, reversibility of large-scale decisions, and epistemic humility under uncertainty. </p> |
| title | The Anti-Annihilation Principle: A Phase-Sensitive Framework for Civilizational Stability in Complex Adaptive Systems |
| topic | Anti-Annihilation Principle Complex Adaptive Systems Civilizational Cycles Systems Theory Ensemble Decision-Making Social Resilience Reflexivity Phase-Sensitive Normativity Systemic Fragility Epistemic Humility Free Will Societal impact of GenAI |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19274797 |