The Self Before Contact
Status
Translation paper
This text does not introduce new proofs.
It translates the structural consequences of the Synkyria technical corpus into a
controlled phenomenological vocabulary.
Verification backbone
All proof-bearing statements are anchored in the Post–Stability Technical Corpus.
Abstract
A viability-first account of the self as maintained admissibility of contact under load, distinguishing self from identity and refusal from withdrawal, while preserving Gestalt’s phenomenology of contact.