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April 18, 2026Open Access

When Systems Can No Longer See Themselves: Perceptual Collapse and the Failure of Organizational Self-Perception Under Increasing Demand

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DMDavid S Morgan

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Implication

Examines perceptual collapse affecting organizational self-perception, indicating early warning signals precede failures.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how organizations lose the ability to understand and coordinate their own state under increasing demands.
  • Develops a theory of perceptual collapse in distributed systems.
  • Applies the Coherence Under Constraint framework.
  • Analyzes five canonical cases across different industries.
  • Distinguishes operational strain from epistemic breakdown.
  • Identifies a structured sequence of coherence degradation when demands exceed capacity.
  • Demonstrates that organizational failures are often preceded by undetected signals.
  • Highlights patterns that recur across various industries and scales.

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David S Morgan (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e320cc40886becb653ff35https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19601105
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