The Creature Comforts Corpus: A Unified Interdisciplinary Framework of Psychological and Sociological Physics (Seventy Working Papers)

Abstract

Stable arrangements persist even when they are poor ones. This corpus treats that persistence as a measurement problem, applying the apparatus of physics — potentials, first-order filters, fixed points, and effective counts — to psychological and social systems across seventy working papers (1,836,200 words) divided into four series:Series A — Foundations (6 papers): Fixes core definitions, redefining comfort as the felt total of present costs rather than pleasure, modeling life trajectories as paths through a comfort landscape governed by stationary action (δS=0), defining the reflexive loop T(x)=W(x,M(x)), and stating the contraction mapping condition.Series B — Engineering the Surplus (33 papers): Builds the core storage law as a leaky integrator, establishes the headroom gauge, and derives the interaction surplus functional f(u)=ln(1+(N−1)u).Series C — Frequency, Essence, and Mind (11 papers): Derives a minimum sustainable frequency threshold fmin​=k⋅e2c/η over an essence law.Series D — Structure and Resilience (20 papers): Applies concentration instruments (1/HHI) and effective counts into jurisdictional structure, institutional holding arrangements, and distributed ledger validator metrics.