The Dependency Graph of Meaning: Regime compression as the grammar of bounded thought

This orientation paper argues that a common structural grammar underlies symbolic thought, scientific laws, social conflict, hyperreality, and philosophical inquiry. Rather than treating these as unrelated phenomena, it interprets them as different expressions of how bounded observers compress dependency graphs into declared regimes that preserve selected invariants while discarding others. Within this view, philosophy becomes recursive quotienting under bounded explanation; symbols function as high-compression regime objects; scientific laws achieve predictive power through disciplined compression rather than ontological closure; hyperreality arises when symbolic compressions detach from the recurrences that originally licensed them; and many persistent conflicts reflect mismatched regimes of admissibility rather than disagreements about facts alone. The paper situates these interpretations within the broader Identity–Persistence Program while carefully distinguishing proven structural results from derived applications. It serves as an orientation companion to the formal forcing theorems and does not extend their mathematical results.