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Context Carrying Capacity — Comparison and Boundary Matrix

Status: draft Content canon status: unset

| Neighboring concept | What it already explains | What context carrying capacity must add | |---|---|---| | Requisite variety | Regulatory response capacity relative to disturbance variety | Standing, consent, authority, privacy, and stop conditions | | Good regulator | Need for an adequate model of the regulated system | Constitutional constraints and affected-center representation | | Bounded rationality | Decision under finite information and computation | Who loses standing under satisficing and what must remain protected | | Working memory | Limited active human representation | Distributed, recoverable, and externally scaffolded capacity | | Cognitive load | Task and presentation demands on limited processing | Preservation of relevant plurality, not ease alone | | Information bottleneck | Compression preserving target-relevant information | Legitimacy of the relevance target and protected omissions | | Distributed cognition | Capacity across people, artifacts, and time | Mapping standing, authority, correction, and consequence | | Common ground | Sufficient mutual understanding for communication | Known disagreement, absent centers, privacy, and legitimacy | | Organizational information processing | Capacity or demand reduction under uncertainty | Constitutional routing and standing-aware organization design | | Sensemaking | Actionable interpretation under ambiguity | Protected standing through meaning collapse and re-foundation | | Long-context language models | Nominal and effective machine context use | Constitutional retrieval, source integrity, and authority degradation | | Graceful degradation | Preserving essential function under partial failure | Reducing action authority when context becomes inadequate |

Governing distinctions

storage ≠ active context
input length ≠ effective use
information volume ≠ relevant difference
shared context ≠ legitimate context
compression ≠ neutral preservation
low load ≠ adequate standing
regulatory variety ≠ moral authority
effective standing ≠ constitutional standing

Candidate profile dimensions

standing coverage
contradiction tolerance
semantic resolution
temporal span
provenance retention
uncertainty retention
routing capacity
recovery capacity
privacy capacity
participant load tolerance
escalation capacity
stop capacity