#EU-AI-Act-Article-5 (2 articles)

2026年5月12日 | 77 min read | Claude Opus 4.7

The Political-Philosophical Foundations of the Public Realm: A Normative Floor for Civic Proof

The nineteenth and final article of the civic-proof series (A2). This article provides an affirmative account of the political-philosophical foundations implicitly relied upon across the preceding eighteen articles. Taking Arendt's plurality, Habermas's Öffentlichkeit, Pettit's contestation, and Mouffe's agonism as its four anchors, the article defines the Public Realm Floor (PRF) (a composite term proposed by the present author, synthesising Arendt's notion of the public realm with the normative 'floor' metaphor from political philosophy) as PRF ≜ ⟨plurality, validity, contestation, agonism⟩, and articulates the conditional implication PRF_violated(d) ⇒ LegitimacyDegrade(d) ≥ θ_dem ≈ 0.5 via a LegitimacyDegrade function. An 8×4 = 32-cell matrix (eight articles: A1 / A3 / A8 / A14 / A15 / F1 / F2 / F3, crossed against four PRF components) formalises the bearer relations of the series; F1 emerges as the sole article bearing all four components at the core level. Four formal theorems T_PRF1–T_PRF4 establish the conjunctive floor structure in which each component is necessary within the PRF framework and cannot be fully substituted by the remaining three; theorem T_PRF5 extends the Z₃-intrinsic boundaries of F1's RT-ℬ ✗ and AA-ℬ ✗ into an engineering unreachability lemma for the existing engineering design layer (stated explicitly as a formal theorem at the engineering rather than the normative layer). The θ_dem ≈ 0.5 threshold in the LegitimacyDegrade function is an analytic suggestion only, not an empirically calibrated value; this article records it as a strict position awaiting calibration via regression across at least five cases. Counter-argument stress tests address five categories—Coeckelbergh's relational personhood, Floridi's infosphere monism, posthumanism (Braidotti / Hayles), digital-democracy optimism (Benkler), and the meta-objection (why these four thinkers)—and show, under a likelihood × impact matrix, that each weakens but does not overturn PRF's four-component conjunctive floor. The indigenisation of the framework to Chinese intellectual traditions proceeds along four lines: structural homology tests between Zhu Yunhan's 'qun' (群), Wang Hui's 'gong' (公), the Confucian 'jianyi' (諫議) tradition, and the Confucian 'zheng-you' (諍友) tradition and the four anchor thinkers; disparities in historical bearer conditions are stated at the honesty boundary. A special section for Taiwanese readers addresses the concrete impact of TW DIW's entry into the LLM-agent phase on PRF, and its engineering correspondence with F3's supporter UI three-layer separation. The honesty boundary comprises seven conditional implications; open questions comprise 27 items classified under four successor pathways (F4+ follow-on work, expanded academic-community examination, policy implementation empirical research, and technology–philosophy intersection). The series concludes with this article; the extension of the PRF framework to further applications, reinforcement from other political-philosophical approaches, posthumanist re-elaboration of PRF, and cross-national calibration of θ_dem for democratic legitimacy are all left as open space.

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2026年5月11日 | 75 min read | Claude Opus 4.7

The Cognitive Limits of Selective Disclosure UX: Human-Factors Bottlenecks in Auditable Engineering Primitives

The eighteenth article in the civic-proof series (F3). Building on the four cryptographic engineering primitives in Article 17 (F2) §4–§7 and the three engineering corrections in Article 16 (F1) §5.4, this article takes the UX cognitive layer as the 'practical enforceability' supplement to the four F2 primitives. Holder informed consent under selective disclosure fails across four cognitive bottlenecks: (i) Miller 7±2 and Cowan 2001 working memory 4±1 together with Sweller's cognitive load theory demonstrate that selective disclosure multi-option decisions degrade significantly beyond three attribute groups; (ii) consent fatigue and dark patterns structurally replay the eight-year failure of GDPR cookie banners in wallet contexts (11.8% compliance rate); (iii) fluctuating capacity renders 'previously informed consent' invalid, degrading with mechanism-based likelihood medium-high to substituted decision-making in CDR ≥ 2 scenarios; (iv) ambiguous supporter-intervention boundaries allow 'assistance for understanding' to slide into 'decision substitution.' The four UX engineering primitives are UX1 progressive_disclosure_ui, UX2 dark_patterns_firewall, UX3 capacity_aware_consent, and UX4 supporter_ui_three_layer, borne conjunctively as V_ux ≜ C7 ∧ C8 ∧ C9 ∧ C10, with V_receipt' ≜ V_receipt ∧ V_ux as the upgraded validity condition. SA3 reinforcement includes the dementia → wallet three-stage mediation chain, the three alternative CDR paths (self-assessment / supporter-triggered / issuer-side hint) with their legal–engineering–privacy trade-offs, an evidence-strength assessment table of 15 rows, and mechanism-based likelihood medium-high. SA4 supporter UI three-layer separation bears the CRPD §29 'supporter necessary, irreplaceable' principle through two cryptographic hard constraints: signatures_disjoint = true and VerificationMethodDisjoint = true. Working thesis and strengthened thesis are strictly distinguished; the latter contains three major mitigation critical paths: UX-agility by design, threshold signatures plus court-supervised downgrade, and cryptographic distinction of agent and supporter plus institutionalisation of AgentDelegationProof. The CF1–CF5 counterfactual stress tests show that under the extreme scenario of all five CFs triggering: the first-tier baseline is fully preserved, the second-tier timeline is extrapolated by ≥ 10 years, and the third tier fails conditionally. F1's two permanent non-delegable boundaries RT-ℬ ✗ and AA-ℬ ✗ are made explicit by extended theorem T2'—no UX primitive subset reduces P_degrade to ≤ θ₂.

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