Liberty Under No-Meta Drift

This paper presents a physically grounded and testable theory of autonomous intelligence under ontology drift, in settings where no privileged meta-observer can access latent internal semantics. It formalizes liberty as protected internal agency that remains operationally auditable through observable channels, while respecting thermodynamic limits, information-theoretic leakage bounds, and constitutional safety constraints. The framework integrates differential geometry, stochastic control, information theory, cryptographic audit mechanisms, and multi-agent governance into a single model with falsifiable predictions. Key results include bounds for semantic identifiability, leakage–resource tradeoffs,…