DIAGRAM · CHAPTER 06

Witness-Canon Architecture.

The coupled form that makes persistence durable across physical, biological, and institutional substrates.

Figure

WITNESS
  publication
  redundancy
  environmental inscription
        <---- coupled ---->
CANON
  compression
  selectivity
  load-bearing variables

Result
  durable objectivity
  usable memory of the regime
  substrate for the next closure

How to read it

This figure is scale-invariant at the formal level. Pointer states, metabolic signatures, and institutional records do not share mechanism, but they do share the persistence problem this architecture solves. Redundancy without selection floods. Selection without redundancy starves.

Chapter: 6
Book title: The Stabilisation Engine
Collection: Diagram