Unauthorized Durability: A Composable Governance Primitive for State Promotion in Adaptive Systems

Adaptive systems that accept inputs at multiple timescales face a structural governance problem: transient signalscan silently acquire durable governing force. A feed item steers attention; repeated exposure shifts interpretation;sustained shaping pressure rewrites the controller itself. The failure mode is not influence per se but unauthorizeddurability – the promotion of lower-tier state into higher-tier authority without legitimate write paths. This paperformalizes the problem as a multiscale control model with four state classes (attention, meaning, policy, observerintegrity) mapped to four authority tiers (runtime, context, durable policy, constitutional). We derive six invariants,five write barriers, and…