Part I. Motivation
Chapter 1. Why Another Framework?
- Three Systems That Failed for the Same Reason
- The Pattern
- Why Existing Frameworks Do Not Quite Fill the Gap
- What FIT Is (and What It Is Not)
- How This Book Uses FIT
Chapter 2. AGI: A Case Study in Missing Discipline
- The Industry Does Not Need FIT
- What Happens Without Structural Discipline
- The Same Landscape, With a Structural Lens
- Capability Stacking vs. Constraint Engineering
- Honest Scope
Part II. Formal Machinery
Chapter 3. The Five Primitives
- An Ant on a Grid
- State: What the System Looks Like Right Now
- Force: What Drives Change
- Information: What Persists
- Constraint: What Becomes Impossible
- Time: Not Just a Parameter
- How the Five Primitives Depend on Each Other
Chapter 4. Phases: Not Time Segments, but Dynamical Types
- A Game That Plays Itself
- Phases Are Not Chronological Stages
- Three Canonical Phases: Φ₁ Accumulation · Φ₂ Crystallization · Φ₃ Coordination
- Phase Transitions Are Not Gradual Shifts
- Boundary Conditions Determine Phase Structure
Chapter 5. The Lifecycle of an Evolving System
- One System, Start to Finish
- Declare the Boundary → Identify Primitives → Classify Phases → Draw the Picture
- What Is Missing
Chapter 6. Estimator Selection Theory
- The Question That Changes Everything
- The Estimator Tuple
- Admissibility: Not All Estimators Are Equal
- Task-Typed Equivalence
- The Coherence Gate
- Pre-Registration: Explore, Then Lock, Then Evaluate
- Robustness Reporting
Chapter 7. The Minimal Coherent Core
- If You Could Only Keep Six Sentences
- The Design Constraint: Why Minimality Is Not Timidity
- The Six Assertions (MCC-1 through MCC-6)
- The Dependency Graph
- The Reconstruction Principle
Chapter 8. Phase Algebra and Stability
- The Problem with "Stages"
- Phases as Operators, Not Labels
- How Stable Is "In Φ₃"? The Stability Criterion Family
- What Happens After Φ₃: Two Paths
- T-Theory: A Vertical Slice
- The Grokking Example, Revisited
Chapter 9. The 18 Propositions: A Field Guide
- Not a List
- Before Any Verdict: The P10 Gate
- Category A: Nirvana Dynamics (P1–P6)
- Category B: Information-Constraint Relationships (P7–P12)
- Category C: Universal Scaling and Multi-Scale Dynamics (P13–P18)
- The Validation Status at a Glance
- How to Read a Proposition
Part III. Evidence
Chapter 10. Tier-1: Toy Systems as Testbeds
- Why Start with Toys
- Conway's Game of Life
- Langton's Ant
- Grokking in Modular Arithmetic: The Li² Scaling Law
- What Tier-1 Establishes — and What It Does Not
Chapter 11. Tier-2: Real-World Systems
- The Price of Complexity
- What Changes Between Tier-1 and Tier-2
- AlphaFold DB: When Boundaries Split a System
- Validated Tier-2 Cases
- Negative and Boundary Cases
- Toward Tier-2: A Design Checklist
Chapter 12. Monitorability: When Information Exists but Observation Fails
- The Useful Signal That Cannot Be Used
- What Just Happened: The FPR Floor
- The Three-Axis View: M(t) = (I(t), C(t), O(t))
- AUC Is a Ranking Metric, Not an Alarm Metric
- The Hardening-Observability Race
- Control Creates Monitorability
Chapter 13. The GMB Benchmark: Why Parameter Tuning Fails at Low FPR
- The Intuitive Fix That Does Not Work
- What GMB Is
- The GMB Results: Score Signs and FPR Floors
- Why Monotonic Repairs Are Futile
- What a Genuine Fix Looks Like
Part IV. Applications
Chapter 14. AI Safety: Controlled Nirvana and the Alignment Lock-In Problem
- The Question Behind the Question
- Which Φ₃?
- The Alignment Lock-In Problem
- Controlled Nirvana
- The Tempo Problem
- Monitorability in AI Governance
- Dr.One: An Empirical Anchor
Chapter 15. Technological Lock-In: Why Dominant Platforms Get Disrupted
- The Engineer with the Digital Camera
- The Structural Paradox of Φ₃
- The Post-Φ₃ Bifurcation
- Reading Disruption in the FIT Timeline
- The No-Return Memo for Technology Organizations
- The Recoverability Experiment
Chapter 16. Institutional Dynamics: When the Measurement Becomes the Prison
- The Measure That Ate the System
- Three Kinds of Institutional Flexibility
- E-Flex Failure in Detail
- The Post-Φ₃ Bifurcation in Institutions
- The NRM for Institutional Governance
Chapter 17. Scientific Paradigm Shifts: When the Theory Becomes the Constraint
- What Exactly Is a Paradigm?
- Anomalies as Accumulated Force
- The Phase Transition in Science
- Cancer Oncology: A Paradigm Shift in Slow Motion
- Path A and Path B in Scientific Fields
Part V. Self-Governance
Chapter 18. How to Falsify FIT
- The Self-Referential Challenge
- Attack Path A: Break Estimator Robustness
- Attack Path B: Force Boundary Discipline
- Attack Path C: The Concrete Counterexample
- Attack Path D: The Alarm Usability Gate
- The Minimum Falsification Bundle
Chapter 19. Theory Maintenance: The Versioning Policy
- The Closed-Core, Open-Edge Model
- 2.x: The Stabilized Core Series
- 3.x: The Formal Expansion Series
- Edge Growth Without Core Revision
- Citing Versions, Citing Stability
Chapter 20. Open Questions and How to Contribute
- The Open Propositions
- The Highest-Value Validation Targets
- Open Theoretical Questions
- The Regenerability Principle