The Language of Stress:
Extended Explorations
Developed independently between 2015-2025, this manuscript represents Pace’s original comprehensive exploration of consciousness as valenced tension dynamics before formal academic publication. This pre-formalization document is for context only and should not be read as authoritative.
Pace, J. C. (2026). The Language of Stress: Extended Explorations. FigShare. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.31081801
Overview
Archival. This manuscript predates the theory's formalization and its engagement with the consciousness literature. It is deposited as a record of the framework's independent development between 2015 and 2025 and should not be used to evaluate the theory's current claims, several of which it states in forms since withdrawn. Readers assessing the framework should start with the book or the main paper. Where this document conflicts with the canonical axioms, the axioms govern.
The core theoretical claims have been formalized in the official corpus documents accessible here on this website. This extended manuscript provides broader historical context for the theory, concepts that have been explored but not formalized, and technical specifications not included in the formal academic papers.
