Core Concepts
Start with participatory capacity, load-bearing functions, and the four structural states. The center of the theory.
Framework
The diagnostic structure of alignment, drift, and realignment across human systems and AI.
How to read this map
This diagram presents the current framework in one place, from capacity-forming functions and participatory capacity into HAPI and AGS. The earlier diagram remains available from the map page as development history.
Explore the Framework
See It Tested
Walk through six canonical stress tests where the pattern appears: biology, addiction, education, community, religion, and organizational systems.
Apply to AI
How the framework becomes behavioral QA for production AI systems through PCPI v5, MAI, and the Babel equation.
Source and Context
This concept is part of Alignment Theory, an original framework by Michael Nathan Bower. It should be understood in relation to the broader constraint model of internal alignment, external alignment, coherence, fragmentation, collapse, and recovery.