Marc Maibom

The Structural Law of Transformation - Universal Conditions for Systems under Change

This paper tells the discovery before it tells the machinery. La Profilée began as a form, became an architecture for separating duration from change, then turned into a question that crossed design, physics, biology, chemistry, cognition and artificial systems. Its central claim...

The Structural Law of Transformation - Universal Conditions for Systems under Change

This paper tells the discovery before it tells the machinery. La Profilée began as a form, became an architecture for separating duration from change, then turned into a question that crossed design, physics, biology, chemistry, cognition and artificial systems. Its central claim...

The Structural Law of AI Systems Under Transformation - Artificial Intelligence: A Canonical Reference for Persistence, Development, Agency, Alignment, and Governance

The Structural Law of AI Systems Under Transformation applies LA PROFILÉE (LP) to artificial intelligence. LA PROFILÉE is proposed as a structural law of systems under transformation, derived from the structure and behavior of natural systems. This work examines what follows when...

THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATURAL SYSTEMS - How Nature Builds and How the Same Architecture Generates Sustainability, New Industrial Logic, and New Business Models

A cell is not a bag of chemistry. An organism is not a heap of cells. An ecosystem is not a list of species. In every case, the natural system exists because different structures and processes occupy different roles, because boundaries distinguish an inside from an outside, and b...

The Missing Structure of Persistence and Identity: A Canonical Synthesis · Persistence Architecture · Typed Verdicts · Cross-Domain Audit · Metadesign

La Profilée (LP) proposes a universal structural law of nature governing identity under transformation. Its starting point is that persistence is diachronic identity: the preservation of the relevant sameness relation through transformation. LP distinguishes this from the deeper...

The Dark State Criterion: A Structural Test For Dark Matter Versus Modified Gravity

The dark-matter problem is usually posed as a choice between an unseen material component and a modification of gravity. That dichotomy is not representation-invariant. A field can be moved between the matter and geometric sides of an equation, a local field can be eliminated in...

The Dark State Criterion: A Structural Test For Dark Matter Versus Modified Gravity

The dark-matter problem is usually posed as a choice between an unseen material component and a modification of gravity. That dichotomy is not representation-invariant. A field can be moved between the matter and geometric sides of an equation, a local field can be eliminated in...

Identity Preservation as the Foundation of Persistent Reality - Why every science of enduring things already presupposes a theory of identity

A foundations paper in the La Profilée programme. It argues that every science of enduring objects already presupposes an ontology of identity before it can formulate an ontology of matter, energy, information, or life — and that persistence, treated as basic by every such scienc...

The Recurrence of the Coexistence Problem: Why four independent sciences pose one structural question about the many, and how we know it is one

Four scientific domains (physics, biology, chemistry, cognition), each with its own objects, methods, and vocabulary, developed their coexistence problems independently of a common relational architecture. Each asks, in its own terms, when several persisters form one configuratio...

Identity Preservation as the Foundation of Persistent Reality - Why every science of enduring things already presupposes a theory of identity

A foundations paper in the La Profilée programme. It argues that every science of enduring objects already presupposes an ontology of identity before it can formulate an ontology of matter, energy, information, or life — and that persistence, treated as basic by every such scienc...

The Recurrence of the Coexistence Problem: Why four independent sciences pose one structural question about the many, and how we know it is one

Four scientific domains (physics, biology, chemistry, cognition), each with its own objects, methods, and vocabulary, developed their coexistence problems independently of a common relational architecture. Each asks, in its own terms, when several persisters form one configuratio...

The Recurrence of the Identity Problem: Why four independent sciences pose one structural question, and how we know it is one

Four scientific domains (physics, biology, chemistry, cognition), each with its own objects, methods, and vocabulary, developed their identity problems independently of a common identity architecture. Each states its problem in its own terms and cannot settle it from inside. This...

The Structural Audit of Civilization: A structural catalogue of where the built world violates the conditions of its own persistence - and what would meet them

This is the audit proper. Its companion, The Grammar of Structural Diagnosis, derived that a world of reflective persisters must build civilization and set out the language in which its structures can be judged. This work turns that grammar on the structures, practices, and syste...

The Structural Audit of Civilization: A structural catalogue of where the built world violates the conditions of its own persistence - and what would meet them

This is the audit proper. Its companion, The Grammar of Structural Diagnosis, derived that a world of reflective persisters must build civilization and set out the language in which its structures can be judged. This work turns that grammar on the structures, practices, and syste...

La Profilée - The Ecology Programme: A Structural Audit of Persistence and Identity Across Ecological Science

La Profilée is a universal structural law of persistence under transformation. Ecology is a proof domain: its systems are natural, bound by the law, and a deviation would falsify it rather than reveal a design flaw. It occupies a distinctive place among the natural domains becaus...