White Paper 23 — The Research Scaffolding of Somatic & Physical Literacy™

This component contains White Paper 23 — The Research Scaffolding of Somatic & Physical Literacy™. This document gathers, in one place, the structural commitments that already organize the SPL corpus. It names the ontological ground (gravity, orientation, bodily situation), the descriptive grammar of phenomenological expression (location-first, sequential, restrained), and the layered field architecture linking SPL with Gravity-Informed Fascial Unwinding™, Gravity-Informed Walking™, the Somatic Commons Initiative, information-appearance work, and AI-Augmented Cognitive Expression & Governance™. The paper is retrospective and clarificatory. It introduces no methods, practices, outcomes, or prescriptive claims. Instead, it identifies the non-negotiable commitments that structure SPL’s descriptive stance and clarifies how the discipline’s scaffolding already appears within the existing white papers. The scope remains descriptive, non-instrumental, and non-normative.