The Stop Axiom: The Final Structure for Constraining Power and Intelligence in Self-Referential Systems

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Authors: xie kaifan
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This upload contains three PDF files: The Stop Axiom: The Final Structure for Constraining Power and Intelligence in Self-Referential Systems Appendix A: Reality Gaps and Grey-Zone Buffers Appendix C: Common Misreadings and Deliberate Distortions These texts are stage-based, experimental writing attempts exploring the limits of expression. The book addresses a single question:when systems become sufficiently powerful, successful, and self-referential, do humans still retain the legitimacy and structural conditions to make them stop?It does not argue values or offer solutions; it only attempts to give “stopping” a place that can be structurally discussed.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
7 January 2026