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Relational Development and Conscious Scaffolding
Conceptual Foundations, Strengthened Results, and Research Commitments
Authority role
Developmental extension of SPC-2: retained organisation, continuation, transfer, diagnostic limits and conditional conscious scaffolding.
Summary
Develops a recursive account of conscious scaffolding through will, thought, embodiment, memory, artifacts and self-reference. Establishes exact message-alphabet tradeoffs, complete finite diagnostic conditions, a conditioning-dependent adaptive continuation bound and a rare-event obstruction to dimension-only certification. A recurrent register model supplies a conditional native incorporation witness. Physical realisation, phenomenal bridge evidence and broader transfer optimality remain open.
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Jeremy Rodgers. (2026). Relational Development and Conscious Scaffolding (Revised preprint). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23190711