Sovereign Epistemic Commons under No-Meta Governance

Abstract

This preprint develops a governance theory for shared epistemic commons maintained by autonomous agents under no-meta constraints. It formalizes observable rules for preserving answerability, contradiction handling, anti-capture slack, and controlled exit under contamination, provenance uncertainty, and recursive regeneration.

Keywords

• epistemic commons
• no-meta
• autonomous agents
• multi-agent systems
• shared memory
• shared knowledge substrate
• agent society
• contradiction preservation
• contradiction reserve
• agent memory governance
• provenance
• observability
• AI governance
• retrieval-augmented generation
• RAG
• distributed knowledge systems
• asynchronous systems
• hidden common causes
• cartel capture
• latent cartel risk
• anti-capture
• controlled exit
• fork governance
• garbage collection
• recursive regeneration
• endogenous contamination
• recursive corpora
• ontology drift
• typed memory lanes
• accessibility
• interoperability
• knowledge governance
• AI
• AGI

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