THE FUNCTIONAL MAPPING RECONFIGURATION PRINCIPLE (FMRP)
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Abstract
This paper proposes the Functional Mapping Reconfiguration Principle (FMRP), a falsifiable generalized systemic model motivated by the primary case study designated the Rat's Fear Paradox. The primary observation is that repeated activation of a functionally salient state may alter how later inputs are mapped to classifications, processing operations, representations, labels, or responses. The proposed abstraction deliberately does not define the mechanism in terms of fear, pleasure, security, consciousness, boundary movement, or any single application domain. Instead, the primitive relation is an activation-dependent change in the subsequent input-to-function mapping. Boundary expansion, threshold displacement, altered weighting, pathway selection, labeling, projection, and response modification are treated as possible manifestations rather than as the theory's ontology. Three analytical layers are used: Philosophical Epistemological, Integrative Systemic-Mechanistic, and Formal Operational. Each layer applies a common three-stage procedure: extraction of the default mechanism, construction of a generalized principle, and identification of extreme, divergent, transformed, paradoxical, or contradictory regimes. Thirty primary comparative cases are organized as ten cases per layer, with the Rat's Fear Paradox retained as the anchor case. A formal state-space representation is developed, together with discrete and continuous formulations, boundary conditions, falsification criteria, sensitivity analysis, stability considerations, and a simulation architecture. The paper explicitly distinguishes mathematical formalization from proof: simulation can demonstrate consequences of the proposed model but cannot establish universal truth. The current epistemic status of FMRP is therefore a proposed generalized, falsifiable systemic principle rather than an established universal law. The manuscript further specifies conditions under which a stronger law-level claim could become warranted.
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BibTeX
@misc{shan2026functional,
title = {{THE FUNCTIONAL MAPPING RECONFIGURATION PRINCIPLE (FMRP)}},
author = {Shamiul Hoque Shan},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23441468},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23441468},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - THE FUNCTIONAL MAPPING RECONFIGURATION PRINCIPLE (FMRP)
AU - Shamiul Hoque Shan
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/17
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23441468
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23441468
AB - This paper proposes the Functional Mapping Reconfiguration Principle (FMRP), a falsifiable generalized systemic model motivated by the primary case study designated the Rat's Fear Paradox. The primary observation is that repeated activation of a functionally salient state may alter how later inputs are mapped to classifications, processing operations, representations, labels, or responses. The proposed abstraction deliberately does not define the mechanism in terms of fear, pleasure, security, consciousness, boundary movement, or any single application domain. Instead, the primitive relation is an activation-dependent change in the subsequent input-to-function mapping. Boundary expansion, threshold displacement, altered weighting, pathway selection, labeling, projection, and response modification are treated as possible manifestations rather than as the theory's ontology. Three analytical layers are used: Philosophical Epistemological, Integrative Systemic-Mechanistic, and Formal Operational. Each layer applies a common three-stage procedure: extraction of the default mechanism, construction of a generalized principle, and identification of extreme, divergent, transformed, paradoxical, or contradictory regimes. Thirty primary comparative cases are organized as ten cases per layer, with the Rat's Fear Paradox retained as the anchor case. A formal state-space representation is developed, together with discrete and continuous formulations, boundary conditions, falsification criteria, sensitivity analysis, stability considerations, and a simulation architecture. The paper explicitly distinguishes mathematical formalization from proof: simulation can demonstrate consequences of the proposed model but cannot establish universal truth. The current epistemic status of FMRP is therefore a proposed generalized, falsifiable systemic principle rather than an established universal law. The manuscript further specifies conditions under which a stronger law-level claim could become warranted.
ER -