THE OPERATIVE RECONFIGURATION PRINCIPLE (ORP): A Proposed Domain-Independent Systemic Principle Derived from the Expert-Beginner Innovation Paradox
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Abstract
The Operative Reconfiguration Principle (ORP) is proposed as a domain-independent systemic principle concerning the relation between an operative configuration, the set of functionally accessible configurations, and subsequent reconfiguration. The principle originates from the Expert-Beginner Innovation Paradox (EBIP): advanced innovation can require both extensive domain competence and an openness to alternatives characteristic of a beginner, even though excessive consolidation of expertise can reduce the accessibility of unfamiliar representations. The present work does not treat expertise, beginner's mind, innovation, or cognition as primitives of the generalized theory. Instead, the canonical case is reconstructed through three representations: philosophical-epistemological, systems-theoretical, and formal-mathematical-computational. The same phenomenon is therefore preserved while its descriptive vocabulary changes. A formal architecture is developed using an operative configuration \Gamma_{t}, an accessible functional/configurational space \mathcal{A}_{t} a system state X_{t}, inputs U_{t}, criterion C_{t}, implementation medium M_{t}, and perturbation/noise \xi_{t}. The framework explicitly permits an arbitrary number N of activities or configurations and is not intrinsically restricted to binary states, human agents, innovation, security, cognition, or any particular domain. Thirty comparative cases are organized across the three analytical layers. Boundary regimes, counterexamples, falsification conditions, alternative explanations, and an empirical validation framework are specified. Synthetic simulation is treated as a consistency and testability instrument rather than as proof of universality. The resulting status is deliberately modest: ORP is presented as a proposed general systemic principle whose domain-independent formulation is a hypothesis about reconfiguration and functional accessibility, not as an established universal law.
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BibTeX
@misc{shan2026operative,
title = {{THE OPERATIVE RECONFIGURATION PRINCIPLE (ORP): A Proposed Domain-Independent Systemic Principle Derived from the Expert-Beginner Innovation Paradox}},
author = {Shamiul Hoque Shan},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23481034},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23481034},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - THE OPERATIVE RECONFIGURATION PRINCIPLE (ORP): A Proposed Domain-Independent Systemic Principle Derived from the Expert-Beginner Innovation Paradox
AU - Shamiul Hoque Shan
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/19
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23481034
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23481034
AB - The Operative Reconfiguration Principle (ORP) is proposed as a domain-independent systemic principle concerning the relation between an operative configuration, the set of functionally accessible configurations, and subsequent reconfiguration. The principle originates from the Expert-Beginner Innovation Paradox (EBIP): advanced innovation can require both extensive domain competence and an openness to alternatives characteristic of a beginner, even though excessive consolidation of expertise can reduce the accessibility of unfamiliar representations. The present work does not treat expertise, beginner's mind, innovation, or cognition as primitives of the generalized theory. Instead, the canonical case is reconstructed through three representations: philosophical-epistemological, systems-theoretical, and formal-mathematical-computational. The same phenomenon is therefore preserved while its descriptive vocabulary changes. A formal architecture is developed using an operative configuration \Gamma_{t}, an accessible functional/configurational space \mathcal{A}_{t} a system state X_{t}, inputs U_{t}, criterion C_{t}, implementation medium M_{t}, and perturbation/noise \xi_{t}. The framework explicitly permits an arbitrary number N of activities or configurations and is not intrinsically restricted to binary states, human agents, innovation, security, cognition, or any particular domain. Thirty comparative cases are organized across the three analytical layers. Boundary regimes, counterexamples, falsification conditions, alternative explanations, and an empirical validation framework are specified. Synthetic simulation is treated as a consistency and testability instrument rather than as proof of universality. The resulting status is deliberately modest: ORP is presented as a proposed general systemic principle whose domain-independent formulation is a hypothesis about reconfiguration and functional accessibility, not as an established universal law.
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