Field demonstration reveals reduced search times and staff interruptions during retail navigation, highlighting governed spatial delegation without capturing situational awareness.
Exocortical systems are entering physical space, transforming human intention into orientation, movement, routing, and environmental interaction. Left unchecked, they can capture gaze, erode orientation, suppress situational awareness, and reduce the body to an actuator. The human remains formally in control while becoming operationally absent, absorbed from the physical by the digital. LOCUS governs the invariants of that delegation upstream of model class, interface, and exocortical domain. Satellite B applies them to embodied action, where Potestas retains recognition, choice, substitution, and embodied closure. LOCUS distinguishes two kinds of friction. Futile Friction is reduced toward a single goal: intention itself as the ultimate interface. Hormetic Friction is calibrated to preserve Potestas's capability through exercise. Presence is preserved through absence. Retail navigation provides a foundational test of governed spatial delegation. Its high environmental entropy distributes cognitive and operational burden across navigator, staff, and organization. An exploratory field demonstration exposed the physical failure topology governed by a Spatial LIMES, reduced observed search time and staff interruption, and returned the navigator to active, oriented search. The architectural contribution is LOCUS entering embodied space.
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Rafael Fermin Hernandez (2026) studied this question.
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