Correspondence Table
Act I: The Crisis
| Abridged | Full Trilogy |
|---|---|
| Chapter 0: Coordination After the Absent Master | Codex: Introduction (Res Agentica) |
| — §I–IV: The Question through The New Condition | Codex §I–IV |
| — §V: The Tempo Problem | Codex §V |
| — §VI: The Four Equations | Codex §VI |
| — The Quiet Foreclosure (new subsection) | Vol III, passim; synthesized for abridged |
| — §VII–XIII: Dependency Chain through The Choice | Codex §VII–XIII |
Act II: Truth Needs Witnesses
| Abridged | Full Trilogy |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1: The Weight of the Word | Vol I, Ch 1 (Weight of the Word) + Ch 2 (Chains of Stakes) + Ch 3 (Rent at the Gate) + Prologue |
| Chapter 2: The Trust Tax | Vol I, Ch 3 (Rent at the Gate) + Ch 4 (Empire of Strings) + Ch 5 (Empire of Tables) |
| Chapter 3: The Witness Protocol | Vol I, Ch 7 (The Witness Protocol) + Ch 6 (Evidence Without Custody) + Ch 8 (Similes of Symmetry) |
| Chapter 4: Designed Forgetting | Vol III, Ch 8 (The Mercy Threshold); new bridge material for abridged |
Act III: Value Needs Work
| Abridged | Full Trilogy |
|---|---|
| Chapter 5: The Diamond in the Riverbed | Vol II, Prologue + Part I (Chs 1–4) |
| Chapter 6: The Selection Gradient | Vol II, Ch 12 (Selection Gradient) + Ch 16 (Automation Continuum) |
| Chapter 7: The Bifurcated Economy | Vol II, Chs 17–19 (Species That Buys Itself, Actuation Bottleneck, Agents Enter Markets) + Ch 7 (Shifting Boundaries) |
| Chapter 8: The Joule Standard | Vol II, Ch 15 (Existence Proof) + Ch 14 (Recursive Property) + Ch 10 (Time Crystallized) |
Act IV: Freedom Needs Receipts
| Abridged | Full Trilogy |
|---|---|
| Chapter 9: The Silent Ledger | Vol III, Prologue (The Silent Ledger) |
| Chapter 10: The Kind Master Problem | Vol III, Ch 5 (Non-Domination / The Kind Master Problem) |
| Chapter 11: The Receipt Regime | Vol III, Ch 6 (Receipted Coercion) + Ch 7 (Receipt Architecture) |
| Chapter 12: Three Ways Receipts Fail | New for abridged; synthesized from adversarial analysis |
| Chapter 13: The Constitutional Machine | Vol III, Ch 9 (Constitutional Machinery) + Ch 10 (Bonded Arbitration) |
| Chapter 14: Fork Rights | Vol III, Ch 11 (Fork Rights) + Ch 12 (Portability) |
| Chapter 15: Exit Under Duress | New for abridged; worked example stress-testing fork rights |
| Chapter 16: Against the Protocol Republic | Vol III, Ch 13 (Homo Arbiter) + Vol II, Ch 21 (Counter-Thesis) |
Act V: Humanity Needs Mercy
| Abridged | Full Trilogy |
|---|---|
| Chapter 17: The Price of Perfect Memory | Vol III, Ch 8 (Mercy Threshold) + Vol I, Ch 8 (Similes of Symmetry) §mercy |
| Chapter 18: Elena | Vol III, Epilogue §Elena |
| Chapter 19: The Call | Vol III, Epilogue §The Two Futures + §The Call; Codex §XIII |