Stabilization Theory

A cross-domain structural framework for analyzing how configurations become distinct, persist, transform, and dissolve.

What is Stabilization Theory?

Stabilization Theory (ST) is a structural framework for analyzing how configurations persist or change over time. It proposes that the relation between pressure and constraint can be analyzed through a common architecture of stabilization, applicable across heterogeneous physical, biological, and social domains.

Scope

Domain Universality

ST advances a claim of domain universality at the level of existence: any configuration that exists can be analyzed through the same pressure–constraint–stabilization architecture. The claim concerns structural roles, not substantive sameness. Systems may differ radically in substrate, mechanism, scale, organization, and evidentiary basis while instantiating the same structural relation.

Research

The foundational working paper presents the minimal architecture of Stabilization Theory. A one-page research brief provides a concise overview of the framework for quick reference.

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Amanda Kenderes, Ph.D.

Amanda Kenderes is the originator of Stabilization Theory, a cross-domain framework developed from her earlier research on communication. Her work examines whether heterogeneous physical, biological, cognitive, social, and institutional configurations can be analyzed through a common structural grammar while preserving domain-specific mechanisms and standards of evidence.

amanda@amandakenderes.com