Integrative Intelligence as an Operative Mode: Cognitive Integration through Self-Ethnographic Dialogue with AI

This paper proposes Integrative Intelligence as an operative mode of human judgment rather than an individual ability or skill. Integrative Intelligence refers to a mode in which judgment operates without fragmentation across three axes: temporal integration (past–present–future), contextual integration (roles, relationships, life domains), and embodied integration (body, emotion, thought, and meaning). Based on an idiographic, autoethnographic approach (N=1), this study develops and examines a unified theoretical framework through four analytic lenses: (1) an internal protocol organizing dialogical relations among temporal selves under non-evaluative metacognitive observation; (2) Resonant Internal Dialogue Protocol (RIDP), in which AI functions as a reflective surface and dialogical partner; (3) Multifaceted Shishuku, an iterative process of selectively integrating and de-adopting qualities from multiple reference figures; and (4) mountaineering as a conditional observation domain in which integrative judgment becomes structurally unavoidable under specific environmental constraints. Three case studies of mountaineering activity demonstrate that when four conditions—prolonged isolated judgment, continuous environmental change, a non-personal third party, and a serial body–emotion–judgment circuit—simultaneously hold, integrative judgment emerges in distinct operational modes (introspective, relational, immediate). These variations indicate that Integrative Intelligence is not a deterministic algorithm but a context-sensitive judgment mode constrained by environmental structure. Rather than aiming for statistical generalization, this study advances theoretical generalization by specifying the conditions under which integrative judgment becomes observable and transferable. The paper concludes by outlining an implementation orientation that treats social application as the design of constraint-equivalent environments and observational scaffolds, not the reproduction of extreme conditions.