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The Drift Stack™ — Why Every Coherent System in Reality Follows the Same 5-Layer Architecture

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Chris Ciappa
Nov 30, 2025
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INTRODUCTION — The Pattern No One Wanted to See

For years, people have treated the failures of AI, institutions, physics, and human cognition as separate problems.

AI hallucinations?
“Model problem.”

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Quantum decoherence?
“Physics thing.”

Mental drift in humans?

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