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James Roy Dennis

Independent

Published researcher, independent scholar, and systems architect, and Founder of PortusSophia, LLC

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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“  James Roy Dennis is a published researcher, independent scholar, systems architect, and Founder of PortusSophia, LLC. ORCID: 0009-0000-6689-8763 His work focuses on governance-aware, constraint-based systems, examining how complex human, organizational, and computational environments maintain or degrade coherence under real-world conditions. His research explores knowledge systems, organizational learning, AI-assisted decision-making, and the structural conditions that influence coordination, interpretation, and accountability across multiple agents and institutions. Current areas of investigation include epistemic failure, knowledge-bearing systems, governance under constraint, irreversibility, and system behavior within bounded environments.  ”

Scholarly Papers (11)

1.

Velocity Degradation in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems Under Discard

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Apr 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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velocity, distributed systems, hierarchical orchestration, multi-agent coordination, coordination overhead, merge cost, discard, pruning, scaling limits, conditional theorem, threshold behavior

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Schema Epistemics: Knowledge as Constraint-Bearing Structure

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Jan 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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Schema Epistemics, Governance, Knowledge Structures, Institutional Design, AI Oversight, Socio-Technical Systems, Design-Based Research

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PortusSophia™: Series Integrator, Dependency Map, and Reader's Guide

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 06 Mar 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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2026-01-31 Version: v0.2 Adjacency (non-derivative / non-prerequisite PortusSophia™, constraint-first, interface-conditioned description, irreversibility, triadic closure, remainder, vestigium, attribution, governance legibility, diagnostic posture JEL (indexing only): D8, D81, D84, C0 Posture: Diagnostic-only, non-prescriptive, standalone PortusSophia™, constraint-first, interface-conditioned description, irreversibility, triadic closure, remainder, vestigium, attribution, governance legibility, non-prescriptive ethics

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Constraint-Dynamics: A Structural Grammar for Irreversible Change

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 26 Feb 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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Constraint-Dynamics, Irreversibility, Boundary Crossing, Interface, Absorption, Retention, Remainder, Legibility, Displacement, Coherence

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Ethical Coherence Under Constraint in the Portussophia™ Series

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Feb 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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Ethical Coherence, Cost Placement, Non-Teleological Ethics, Institutional Failure, Governance Under Constraint, Irreversibility, Ethical Drift, Collapse and Inflation, Pre Anthropological Ethics

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Entanglement: Pre-Relational Correlation

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Apr 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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pre-relational correlation, constraint-bearing structure, non-agentic description, boundary discipline, semantic restraint, triadic configuration, misclassification risk, irreversibility, entanglement

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Consciousness: Relational Depth within the PortusSophia™ Series

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Mar 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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consciousness, relational depth, field condition, topology, tension, navigability, vestigium, irreversibility, non-agentic, D81, D84, C0

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Navigation Under Constraint in the Portussophia™ Series

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 Feb 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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Reason, Bounded Rationality, Decision-Making Under Constraint, Legitimacy, Ethics and Reason, Governance, Decision-Making Under Constraint, Non-Teleological Systems

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Awareness - A Conditional Field Analysis in the PortusSophia™ Series

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Mar 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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awareness, conditional field, attention as cost, irreversibility, remainder, boundary discipline, non-subjective, non-agentic

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Interface-Conditioned Energetic Descriptions

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 03 Mar 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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interface conditioning, descriptive collapse, coarse-graining, projection, non-equivalence, residue, vestigium, boundary discipline, semantic restraint

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Identity: Attribution Without Agency within the PortusSophia™ Series

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 06 Mar 2026
James Roy Dennis
Independent
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2026-01-31 Version: submission build Adjacency (non-derivative / non-prerequisite identity, attribution, ownership of attention, persistence without narrative, nonagentic, non-teleological, pre-ethical, structural threshold