AIM Framework glossary
Boundedness Asymmetry Principle
Canonical definition
Of the three components of Object-valuation, only PM is structurally capable of inflating beyond the real value of the Object. A-valuation is bounded by deficit states and cannot exceed the observer's actual need. I-Object-valuation is bounded by sufficiency of the Object to enable the process and cannot exceed what the I-process requires. PM-valuation has no closure: it never closes while the Individual is conscious and perceiving, because comparative position has no resolution state (Axiom 6). Therefore, in any Object-valuation (including valuation of Individuals-as-Objects), inflation beyond A-I adequacy is necessarily and exclusively PM. Parasitic extraction is structurally impossible without PM. In a PM-free interaction, all valuations are accurate by construction.
Explanation
Your brain cannot overvalue a hamburger beyond how hungry you are, or a guitar beyond what your playing requires. Those valuation systems are wired to your actual state and switch off when the state resolves. But your brain can go on overvaluing a person's importance for as long as you are awake and taking in the world, because there is no "full" signal for Status. That is why only PM produces extraction: it is the only valuation that can inflate beyond what is real.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle. Derived from Axiom 5 (M as Amplifier), of which Object Parasitism is the derived failure mode; Axiom 6 (Differential Satiation); and the structural coupling properties of A and I valuation. Warrant of the residual attribution. The identification of valuation above A-I adequacy as necessarily and exclusively PM proceeds by elimination over the Three-Source Taxonomy, and its warrant is therefore the warrant of the taxonomy's exhaustiveness, defended at Chapter 5, Sections 5.4 and 5.6, and consolidated as the first load-bearing commitment of the falsification surface at Appendix B, Section B.2. That PM never closes is not established by the elimination; it is derived independently from the Observer's function (Satiation-Function Entailment; Appendix A, M5b), and the elimination attributes the measured residual to that independently characterised channel. In measurement, the attribution operates net of the bounded and terminating residues granted at Chapter 12, Section 12.22, and of the bounded allocative-and-buffer band of the Premium recognised in Chapter 12's Position Statement, so that neither lawful recovery of cost nor provision against unforecastable future deficits is counted as Premium. Substrate specification. The Boundedness Asymmetry Principle is the architectural source of every compounding dynamic in the AIM Framework. A is bounded by deficit-state (homeostatic satiation, Axiom 6); I is bounded by sufficiency of the Object to enable the process (the I-contribution closes once the Object suffices for the process at the Individual's level of competence, Axiom 6); M is unbounded because the Observer's Salience assessment over the perceived field has no completion condition, the continual shift of comparative reference points being its expression (Axiom 6). The compounding consequences (PM extraction, Aggregation Gradient, Stratification Inevitability, Unifying Crisis Principle) all derive from this asymmetry. Entries describing compounding dynamics must explicitly identify the M-unboundedness as the source of compounding and the A-and-I-boundedness as the bounded baseline.
Derivation
Chapter 8, Section 8.1.7; Chapter 9, Section 9.9.12; Chapter 9, Section 9.10; Chapter 8, Section 8.12.3; Appendix A, Section A.2.
Related terms
- Individual-as-Object
- Reciprocal Valuation Property
- Status
- Mimetic Premium
- Object Parasitism
- Differential Satiation Dynamics (Axiom 6)
- Salience-Deficit Conflation Principle