SΔϕ-58 — Cost Attribution Symmetry Index

SΔϕ-58 introduces the Cost Attribution Symmetry Index, CASI, within the Sofience-Δϕ Formalism as a framework for evaluating group risk without relying on surface labels such as religion, cult, sect, ideology, movement, or community. Instead of asking whether a group’s belief is true, false, orthodox, or deviant, this paper asks how benefits and costs are distributed, delayed, internalized, externalized, audited, and repaired within the group’s operational structure. The central claim is that all benefit stands upon a rearrangement of cost attribution. A group becomes structurally risky not because its beliefs are unfamiliar, sacred, supernatural, or intense, but because benefits may be concentrated in…