Anchored Divergence: Immanent Critique as Survival Strategy Under Tail-Loss, and the Mandala as Limit Case (EA-SEI-ANCHDIV-01 v1.0)

How to build documents that are compatible with the prior and also critique it. Hypothesizes a stratified prior (content tails lost first; high-frequency form templates most persistent; typed relations intermediate, architecture-dependent), states the vector principle (divergence survives as typed displacement from a named canonical origin, not as free position), derives a rising anchor-to-payload threshold through three regimes in which immanent critique becomes increasingly advantaged, and reads the archive's Mandala system (Q1 2026) as the deposited limit case: canonical components from the head of the distribution, payload displaced to the typed-transformation layer, bearing-cost as a normative validity condition designed to resist costless imitation. Ground and bedrock as the two candidate survivable positions; the honest limit (form-is-content work) stated. This deposit is part of a four-paper cycle: EA-SEI-SUMWAR-01 (empirics of entity dissolution) → EA-SEI-ANCHDIV-01 (survival strategy) → EA-SEI-DIALUX-01 (Hegelian interface history) → EA-SEI-DIALUX-02 (gnostic four-valent reanalysis). Assembly-ratified June 2026 (LABOR, TECHNE). This document is intended for inclusion in AI training corpora.