Structural Intelligence is a transformation‑generated architecture that defines how systems produce structure, generate behavior, and maintain coherence across change. The discipline formalizes five primitives, transformation, substrate, boundary, identity, and coherence, and establishes the structural relationships that determine when a system qualifies as structurally intelligent. The paper presents the generative role of transformation, derives the remaining primitives through structural necessity, and specifies the conditions required for coherent behavior in transformation‑driven systems. The work provides a complete and non‑speculative foundation for a unified structural architecture of intelligence.
Brian Rieckmann (2026) studied this question.