cognitive capacity

THE CONSENT IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM

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The Consent Impossibility Theorem infographic showing mathematical proof that informed consent is impossible: required cognitive load of 376 hours per year versus available human capacity of 40 hours per year, creating 31.6x gap that proves consent-based governance cannot function

Why Human Autonomy Collapsed the Moment We Moved Online This analysis establishes that informed consent—the foundation of privacy law, contract law, and democratic governance—is mathematically impossible in digital systems. The cognitive requirements for understanding data practices exceed human capacity by orders of magnitude. This is not a failure of implementation. This is structural impossibility. Every … THE CONSENT IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM

THE ATTENTION DEBT CRISIS

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The Attention Debt Crisis infographic showing platform demand of 15 hours versus human capacity of 3 hours, resulting in 5:1 attention leverage ratio, Global Attention Solvency Index score of 42/100, $3.8 trillion economic cost, and Basel IV as regulatory solution

Why Digital Society Is Bankrupt — And How Portable Identity Enables Recovery This analysis establishes that Web2 platforms operate on the same structural model that caused the 2008 financial crisis: extracting more of a finite resource than can be sustainably repaid. The resource is not money. It is human attention. And the debt is coming … THE ATTENTION DEBT CRISIS