Interiority as Unified Mediation

This paper argues that what is ordinarily referred to as interiority is identical to unified, non-decomposable mediation within self-maintaining systems. Systems whose persistence depends on resolving incompatible constraints require globally coordinated mediation, and such systems cannot be exhaustively specified in decomposed terms. Where behaviour depends on irreducible global organisation, no decompositional description preserves behavioural adequacy. This imposes a constraint on adequate representation: such systems must be characterised in a system-relative manner that preserves their global structure. The apparent distinction between structure and experience arises from the imposition of a decompositional mode of description on a system that does not admit it. Interiority is not an additional property, but the organisation of such systems under a mode of description that preserves what decompositional accounts necessarily omit. This claim forms part of a broader structural framework concerning constraint, mediation, and persistence, though the argument presented here does not depend on that framework in its entirety.