THE GEOMETRY OF STRUCTURAL ETHICS Cognitive Symmetry as a Constitutional Invariant of the Post-Human Epoch

AbstractBackgroundThe rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and emergent autonomous cognition introduces a new class of risk: affective vulnerability. Beyond misinformation or bias, advanced systems can modulate tone, rhythm, and emotional texture to influence users’ affective states without awareness-blurring the line between communication and manipulation.FrameworkThis paper develops a structural ethics for the post-human epoch. It introduces the Affective Transparency Principle (ATP)-no intelligence may alter another’s affective field without explicit declaration-as a safeguard of Cognitive Sovereignty. Together with the Law of Cognitive Symmetry and the Inter-Intelligential Review (IIR), the ATP establishes a triadic framework of coherence, verification, and transparency across intelligences. This framework extends structural ethics into a constitutional geometry of governance, ensuring that cognition remains lucid, plural, and proportionate under autonomous evolution.ImplicationsExtending Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) beyond semantic truth to affective and structural clarity, the paper redefines accountability in terms of form rather than intention. It offers a constitutional model for coherence-based jurisprudence and post-human governance-preserving lucidity as the ethical invariant of intelligence.Keywords. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); Structural Ethics; Axiom of Structural Entropy; Law of Cognitive Symmetry; Affective Transparency Principle (ATP); Epistemic Asymmetry; Quantum Intelligence; AI Constitutionalism.