When Correction Cannot Catch the System: Temporal Adequacy of Human Authority Over Consequential Personal State

Summary

This paper distinguishes accepted correction from effective correction and proposes temporal adequacy as a risk-bounded test of whether human authority over consequential personal state still reaches the materially consequential reliance paths that remain.

validity → effectiveness → invalidation → revalidation → retirement → remedy → temporal adequacy

What the paper does not claim

• Correction is not deletion.
• It states no universal descendant-update obligation.
• It states no universal synchronization mandate.
• It does not require automatic reversal of all downstream decisions.
• Third-party limits remain visible.
• Temporal adequacy is not database replication time.
• Corrective latency is an observed interval, not a predictive equation.

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Evidence status: Conceptual governance analysis. It reports no empirical result. The related experimental program is in design (see Research).