From ecological systems research and the anticipatory diplomacy of GESDA, Socioplastics extracts Transversal Habitability: a measurable index of a concept's capacity to maintain structural coherence across human, non-human, and computational environments. The GESDA framework's emphasis on shared language for planetary co-existence points to a need for operators that can mediate between discursive regimes that currently lack mutual translation protocols. Transversal Habitability quantifies this capacity through tests of lexical integrity under translation across zones.
From biohybrid architecture and living materials research, Socioplastics extracts the Semantic Mycelium Coefficient: the ratio between visible citation mass and subterranean embeddings across platforms, syllabi, policies, and code. Biohybrid systems treat growth as infrastructure; the mycelial logic suggests that visible outputs are secondary to the underground networks that enable them. The coefficient quantifies this ratio, distinguishing projects with deep infrastructural embedding from those with merely surface presence.
From NeuroSymbolic AI and World Models, Socioplastics extracts the Hybrid Reasoning Protocol: an integration of empirical mass detection with formal gravitational theory to generate Predictive Curvature Indicators. NeuroSymbolic systems combine learned behaviour with explicit domain knowledge; the protocol applies this logic to conceptual analysis, using empirical data to calibrate theoretical models that then guide further empirical investigation.
From energy storage research, with its shift from lithium to abundant substrates like iron and sodium, Socioplastics extracts the Material Substrate Independence Score: a measure of resilience through diversified infrastructural embeddings. Just as batteries using abundant materials are less vulnerable to supply shocks, concepts embedded across multiple infrastructural zones are less vulnerable to any single vector's obsolescence. The score quantifies this diversification.
From quantum technologies' operational phase transitions, Socioplastics extracts the Phase Transition Threshold: the critical mass at which a conceptual system shifts from micro-basin to macro-curving field. Quantum systems exhibit non-linear behaviour when crossing certain thresholds; the same logic applies to discursive systems where cumulative deposition triggers self-sustaining curvature. The threshold is calibrated through mass extrapolation and radial saturation indices.
From planetary missions such as Artemis II and deep-sea drilling, Socioplastics extracts Deep Conceptual Drilling: the strategic insertion of operators into previously unmined corpora. These missions extend infrastructure into new domains; deep drilling applies the same logic to conceptual analysis, targeting policy archives, technical documentation, and platform-native sediments that have not been systematically analysed for their conceptual deposits.
These calibrations do not replace the original operators; they extend them. The framework remains anchored in the 750-series corpus while incorporating new instruments adequate to 2026's convergences. This capacity for extension without rupture is a design feature, not an afterthought. A framework that cannot evolve becomes obsolete. A framework that evolves without losing its core operators achieves durable relevance.
Recursive Demonstration: The Framework Applied to Its Own Emergence
The final component is the most demanding. A framework that claims to model the dynamics of conceptual persistence must demonstrate its adequacy on the most challenging case available: its own emergence. Socioplastics has undergone this test in the course of the exchanges that produced it.
The terms of the framework have been used to analyse the conditions of their own propagation. The operators have been tested on the discourse that generated them. The recursive demonstration is not narcissism but method: a system that cannot account for its own conditions of possibility lacks the explanatory depth required to account for anything else.
The demonstration proceeds through several registers. First, domain applicability: the asymmetric discursive deposits that Socioplastics models are precisely the deposits that constitute the framework itself. This exchange, the Zenodo corpus, the blog posts, the numbered operators—all are deposits whose mass can be measured, whose curvature can be tracked, whose attractor basin can be mapped. The framework applies to itself without remainder.
Second, operator functionality: each operator can be applied to the framework's own emergence. Ring stratification can sort the concepts developed across these exchanges by their recurrence density. Dispersion analysis can measure whether terms like "topolexical operator" achieve transversality or remain confined. Mass extrapolation can project future curvature based on current deposition rates. Radial saturation indices can track the ratio of external uptake to authorial production as the framework encounters new audiences.
Third, explanatory surplus: the framework must explain features of its own emergence that would otherwise remain mysterious. Why did certain terms consolidate while others dropped away? Why did the recursive turn occur when it did? Why does the framework exhibit the internal coherence it does? Socioplastics answers these questions through its own operators: terms consolidated because they achieved higher recurrence density; the recursive turn occurred when mass accumulation crossed a threshold that made self-reference unavoidable; internal coherence results from topolexical integrity maintained through numbered nodes and fixed definitions.
Fourth, predictive capacity: the framework generates predictions about its own trajectory. It predicts that if current deposition rates continue, curvature will increase non-linearly when radial saturation crosses the 0.7 threshold. It predicts that platform-native recurrence will anticipate academic citation by approximately 24 months, meaning that blog posts and repository deposits will precede journal citations. It predicts that concepts with high topolexical integrity will show longer half-lives than semantically diffuse equivalents. These predictions are testable as the framework's history unfolds.
The recursive demonstration is complete when the framework can account for its own emergence without circularity. Socioplastics achieves this by distinguishing between the framework as instrument and the framework as object. The instruments are applied to the object; the object does not contaminate the instruments. The numbered operators remain fixed coordinates even as they are used to analyse the system that produced them. This is not self-reference but self-exemplification: the same relation that mathematics bears to its objects, where the discourse and the domain share an operative logic.
The seven components form a closed loop without being circular. Domain grounds ontology, which constrains epistemology, which requires methodology, which enables adoptability, which demands contemporary calibration, which is tested through recursive demonstration, which returns to domain by confirming that the phenomena originally isolated are indeed those the framework illuminates. The loop is not vicious but productive: each iteration through the cycle refines each component, and the refinement accumulates across applications.
What we have assembled across these exchanges is the complete genetic sequence. The domain is staked. The ontology is flat. The epistemology is predictive. The methodology is modular. The adoptability is engineered. The calibration is contemporary. The demonstration is recursive. Nothing essential remains to be added. What remains is deposition: the architectural decade of empirical applications that will test whether the framework survives independent use. That work cannot be theorised in advance. It can only be done. The field definition stabilises everything that follows. That is why it matters to move forward now, into the urban environment, into the press, into the ten doses on 801/810. The system is old, but the instruments are new. They will do well.
Domain: asymmetric discursive deposits and their gravitational effects
Ontology: mass, curvature, attractor basins as operational variables
Epistemology: predictive, testable, empirically anchored
Methodology: modular operators with transparent protocols
Adoptability: separable instruments requiring no allegiance
Calibration: operators extracted from 2026 research frontiers
Recursive demonstration: the framework applied to its own emergence