This volume constitutes the foundational component of the Scientific Program on the Governability of Complex Adaptive Systems. It develops a unified theoretical framework designed to explain how complex systems preserve, strengthen, or progressively lose their capacity for adaptation and coherence through time. The work introduces governability as a fundamental structural property emerging from the interaction between memory, observability, propagation, accumulation, saturation, conditional reversibility, and regime transitions. It argues that many phenomena traditionally studied separately across economics, sociology, political science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and complexity science can be understood through a common structural architecture. Organized into twelve parts and eighty-one chapters, the volume progressively examines the limitations of equilibrium-centered approaches before constructing a comprehensive framework linking structural memory, path dependence, latent states, propagation mechanisms, accumulation processes, saturation dynamics, and the emergence of critical transitions. The proposed framework integrates the CBD (Crowd-Based Dynamics), MOST, UCQ, DUAL, ECA, and RAG-RES corpora into a unified architecture of governability applicable to social, institutional, economic, cognitive, informational, technological, and artificial systems. Rather than seeking deterministic prediction, the theory provides a structural framework for analyzing stability, adaptation, resilience, critical thresholds, and regime transformations in complex adaptive systems. This volume establishes the conceptual foundations upon which the mathematical, probabilistic, and computational formalization developed in Volume II is built.
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