Research Map · Human Agency Under Consequential State

The post-change lifecycle

The framework organizes the relevant sequence exactly as stated in the paper: State Change → Propagation → Revalidation → Disposition → Recoverable Effects.

Canonical paper

The sequence

  1. 01
    State Change

    An observable material change: deletion, withdrawal, correction, replacement, removal, reinsertion, or changed status.

  2. 02
    Propagation

    Whether the change reaches actors or systems that hold or rely on related state — necessary in many systems, but not sufficient on its own.

  3. 03
    Revalidation

    Whether a consequence-controlling actor must reassess the live consequence in light of the changed state, under its governing rule, purpose, authority, and procedure.

  4. 04
    Disposition

    RETIRE (no sufficient basis remains), MODIFY (a narrower same-ground basis supports it), REBASE (a distinct replacement ground has been adopted), or UNRESOLVED.

  5. 05
    Recoverable Effects

    Lost access, time, opportunity, stigma, or burden that correction does not automatically erase — a separate, studied-not-assumed question.

Reading the map

These stages are related but non-equivalent: a system can be transparent about source-state correction while opaque about who controls the downstream consequence. The two empirical pilots exposed different parts of this same sequence — CFPB complaint records were strong on stages 1–2 and weak on stage 3’s Ground B question; MSPB procedural records were the reverse.

Citation

Suggested citation
Preble, Micheal Charles. “Human Agency Under Consequential State: Correction, Revalidation, and Recoverable Consequences in Persistent Computational Systems” Manuscript dated September 21, 2026. Available at SSRN 7496758, 2026.