External Identity and Consent
External identities produce signal. They require consent to propagate.
Every person is surrounded by fields of identity — the expectations, narratives, and frames that others project. The question is never whether the signal arrives. The question is whether it receives consent to propagate into structure.
The magnetic field analogy is precise. A magnet generates a field regardless of whether a compass is nearby. The field does not force the compass needle to move. If the needle's internal structure is stable, the external field provides information: direction. If unstable, the external field provides a substitute coordinate.
A stable identity coordinate I* receives external identity signals as information. An unstable identity coordinate receives external identity signals as authority. They ascend, modify the coordinate, and the system orients toward a destination it did not choose.
The intervention is not isolation from the field. It is stabilization of the internal coordinate so that external signals are processed, not adopted.
External signal ⇒ ℐ(I*, ∇c) ⇏ I*