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February 2, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Fully Adjustable Articulator Systems: Saturation, Interpretive Collapse, and Boundary

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PSPANAGIOTIS SALIKOPOULOS

Key Points

  • This work explores the limits of fully adjustable articulator systems, focusing on mechanical freedom and stability.
  • Analyzed behavior under saturated adjustability
  • Explored mechanical determinacy and stability issues
  • Examined varying configurations and their responses
  • Identified loss of interpretive priority beyond critical freedom
  • Stability becomes locally contingent and metastable regions emerge
  • Equivalent configurations display divergent behaviors without clear causality

Abstract

This manuscript examines fully adjustable articulator systems as the terminal case of mechanical freedom within the reactor framework. It analyzes the behavior of articulators under saturated adjustability, where multiple internal constraints become simultaneously selectable and hierarchically indeterminate. The study demonstrates that beyond a critical threshold of freedom, mechanical behavior remains producible but loses interpretive priority. Stability becomes local and contingent, metastable regions emerge intrinsically, and equivalent configurations yield divergent responses without privileged causality. Increased recording accuracy or parameter completeness does not restore mechanical determinacy. This work functions as a standalone mechanical delimitation and as a terminal component of the Articulators: Mechanical Behaviour and Geometrical Understanding Corpus. It establishes the boundary at which mechanical explanation ends and responsibility shifts irreversibly from system to operator. The Corpus closes here by design, not by omission.

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PANAGIOTIS SALIKOPOULOS (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6980fff5c1c9540dea812e30https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18447910
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