The Institutional Mind: From Privilege to Processing, Through the Turing Theory, to the Architecture of Exclusion

This monograph examines how elite institutions convert inequality into procedural architecture through administrative processing systems rather than explicit exclusion. Drawing on institutional sociology, disability studies, legal analysis, and empirical institutional documentation, the work introduces the Turing Theory of institutional cognition and the concept of institutional bifurcation, describing how intellectual evaluation and administrative processing operate as structurally separated subsystems. Using admissions data, policy analysis, and documented institutional interaction, the book argues that modern meritocratic institutions optimise for processing efficiency rather than epistemic truth, producing systematic exclusion of non standard cognitive profiles despite intellectual recognition within scholarly domains. The work integrates sociological theory, equality law analysis, and reflexive institutional observation to propose a structural diagnostic framework applicable across higher education governance and computational decision systems. This Zenodo deposit establishes a timestamped scholarly record prior to formal academic submission.