Processing-and-Control Availability in Self-Regulating Cognitive Systems: Current Availability Profiles between Structural Support and Episode-Level Invocation

This paper develops the Processing-and-Control Availability projection of the Architecture of Self-Regulating Cognitive Systems. It distinguishes three statuses that are often conflated: structural support or existence of a processing/control organization, its current availability under a declared frame, and its invocation in a current episode. A processing/control organization may be structurally supported yet currently unavailable, and a currently available organization need not be invoked. Availability is therefore treated as a frame-relative configuration or profile rather than as a scalar level. Different availability configurations may be compositionally different and partially ordered without forming a universal total order or a canonical maximum. The paper further argues that broader availability does not by itself establish greater intelligence, maturity, developmental advancement, or consciousness. Availability may change without requiring invariant change; temporary unavailability does not by itself imply structural loss; and re-availability need not imply new structural formation where supporting organization persists. The account preserves boundaries between architecture-level availability and recursive re-entry, human focal attention and accessibility, GTCS Pre-Symbolic Admissibility, GTCS meta-availability, phenomenological manifestation and qualitative readability, symbolic articulation, and episode-level route invocation. The resulting projection provides a bounded account of what is currently available for processing or control, distinct from both structural support and current occurrence.