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# ∈ Principle — The Destination of Actions

> *History cannot be broken.*

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## What is ∈

**∈** is a philosophical and institutional proposal for public authorship in the age of artificial intelligence.

The symbol ∈ — borrowed from mathematics, where it means *belongs to* — marks the moment when a work enters the public space with an assumed author behind it.

Not ownership.
Not copyright.
Responsibility.

The core idea is simple:

> A public work truly exists when someone assumes responsibility for it.

This is older than any law. It appears in cave paintings where an artist left their handprint beside the figures they created. In Zola’s *J’accuse*. In Watson and Crick’s double helix paper. In every act of public authorship throughout history.

Today, in the age of generative AI and autonomous agents, that gesture is in crisis. ∈ is the proposal to restore it.

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## The Book

This repository contains the foundational text of the ∈ principle, published as a philosophical essay in two languages.

|Language|Title                       |DOI                                                               |
|--------|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|English |*The Destination of Actions*|[10.5281/zenodo.18945860](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945860)|
|Spanish |*El destino de las acciones*|[10.5281/zenodo.18945953](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945953)|

Both versions are available under **CC BY 4.0**.

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## Repository Structure

```
e-principle/
├── README.md
├── CITATION.cff
├── book/
│   ├── destination-of-actions-en.pdf
│   └── destino-de-las-acciones-es.pdf
└── docs/
    └── e-principle.md
```

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## How to Cite

**English version:**

```
Capucci, H. A. (2026). The Destination of Actions — Public responsibility
in the age of artificial intelligence. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945860
```

**Spanish version:**

```
Capucci, H. A. (2026). El destino de las acciones — Responsabilidad pública
en la era de la inteligencia artificial. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945953
```

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## Ecosystem

The ∈ Principle is the philosophical foundation of a coherent conceptual and technical system:

```
The Destination of Actions (Book)
            ↓
      ∈ Principle (this repo)
            ↓
      Agent Manifest
            ↓
    Boundary Handshake
            ↓
  Agent Manifest Registry
```

Each layer implements the same core idea at a different level of abstraction: every public act — human or machine — requires an assumed author behind it.

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## Related Works

- **Capucci, H. A. (2026).** *The Destination of Actions.* Zenodo.
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945860
- **Capucci, H. A. (2026).** *El destino de las acciones.* Zenodo.
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945953
- **Agent Manifest** — Declarative specification for autonomous AI agents.
  https://github.com/hernanCapucci/agent-manifest
- **Boundary Handshake** — Protocol for agent boundary declaration and negotiation.
  https://github.com/hernanCapucci/boundary-handshake
- **Agent Manifest Registry** — Public discovery infrastructure for agent manifests.
  https://github.com/hernanCapucci/agent-manifest-registry

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## The ∈ Principle in One Sentence

> ∈ marks the moment when a work crosses the threshold — the moment when someone says, without saying it in words:
> 
> *“This is entering the world, and I am here.”*

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## Author

**Hernán Alfredo Capucci**
ORCID: [0009-0008-7216-3032](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7216-3032)
2026 · CC BY 4.0

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*∈ Document Series · 2026*
