Exostructural Ignorance formalizes the substrate condition underlying the entire SignalRupture (SR) Canon. It proposes that governance systems operate under a structural mismatch between behavioural complexity and institutional cognitive capacity, producing a necessary remainder of unprocessed, unrepresented, or procedurally excluded information. This exostructural remainder—generated whenever behavioural complexity exceeds institutional processing limits—forms the foundational constraint from which all five SR theorems emerge. The paper conceptualizes exostructural ignorance not as a failure of competence or ethics, but as a systems‑level requirement for throughput, auditability, procedural coherence, and operational stability. By identifying the structural necessity of omission, the paper situates distortion, drift, equilibrium, lock‑in, and oversight stabilization within a unified metatheoretical substrate.
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