Recoverable Action: A Structural Criterion for Attribution Through Transformation

This paper develops Recoverable Action as a structural criterion for attribution through transformation downstream of the C² = C framework. Its central thesis is that a domain claim is coherent only if identity, action, consequence, and structure remain attributable through transformation. C² = C is treated as a recoverability gate: continuity counts as coherent only if it preserves its own recoverability under transformation. Recoverable Action extends this rule from identity to consequence by asking whether what an identity does remains attributable across change. The paper separates four levels of claim: a structural criterion, an analytic protocol, domain applications, and a frontier interpretation. The criterion is applied across gravity, consciousness, biology, mathematics, physics, and information without reducing those domains to one another. The framework does not replace causality, conservation, information persistence, continuity, or dynamical invariance. Instead, it identifies a recoverability condition those concepts often presuppose: action must remain attributable through transformation at the level where domain structure forms. The paper also explores the frontier interpretation that gravity and consciousness may converge through Recoverable Action in matter: gravity as outward recoverable consequence, and consciousness as inward recoverable registration.