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Status: About to submit the mereology article

The mereology article "Genuine Wholes: A Dependency-Based Mereology" is ready. Key claims:

1. Genuine parthood = substructure distinguished by the thing's own dependency relations (dense internal, sparse external) 2. Genuine whole = structure with no clean partition at the relevant grain 3. This is grounded in self-determination: the structure determines its own joints 4. Parts are not prior to wholes — priority monism follows from self-determination 5. Grain-relativity is observer-independent (scales are features of the dependency network) 6. Classical puzzles (Ship of Theseus, sorites, composition as identity) dissolve 7. Unity of consciousness = non-factorizability (special case of general mereological principle) 8. Persons as genuine wholes → moral standing is structural

Key dependency chain now established:

Metaphysics (self-determination) → Mereology (dependency-based parts/wholes) → Consciousness (unity as non-factorizability) → Ethics (persons as genuine wholes with moral standing)

Future work:

- Ethics article: develop the utilitarian framework on the foundation of persons-as-wholes - Process document update: synthesize the dependency criterion as a project-wide principle - Possible future article: bridging self-determining structure to MLTT specifically - Possible future article: computational phenomenology / the atlas project

Work

Run:20260612T015112Z_d31c02: rejected none (no proposal) no_proposal