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March 23, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Kupu-Kupu Malam and the Sovereignty Gap: Who Bears the Consequence Without Holding the Choice?

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KGKian Tik Go

Key Points

  • This paper aims to investigate the exclusion of marginalized individuals from decision-making processes and its implications for humanity.
  • Introduces Kupu-Kupu Malam as a case study to operationalize humanity in a theoretical framework.
  • Applies the Walking Books Philosophy to explore relational epistemology.
  • Analyzes the implications of the Sovereignty Gap on decision power and consequence ownership.
  • Utilizes Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations curve to assess AI's impact on inequality.
  • Identifies that the Grand Formula remains incomplete without including marginalized individuals.
  • Demonstrates that AI's diffusion can increase inequality by neglecting humanity's full spectrum.
  • Proposes that a Chief Humanity Officer's role is crucial to address these gaps.

Abstract

This paper introduces Kupu-Kupu Malam — a phenomenological figure drawn from Titiek Puspa's landmark Indonesian song — as a precise case study for operationalizing the variable Humanity (Kemanusiaan) in the Grand Formula: (Consciousness × Calculation) Humanity < Transcendence. The paper argues that the Grand Formula's exponent remains structurally incomplete as long as the most marginalized human beings — those who bear consequences without holding choices — are excluded from the Calculation. Drawing on the Walking Books Philosophy (1/360 relational epistemology), the Sovereignty Gap (Decision Power ≠ Consequence Ownership), Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations curve, and the CHO framework of self-mastery (Zì Zhǔ, Wěn Liàng, Xiāo Yáo), this paper demonstrates that AI's accelerating diffusion capacity paradoxically deepens inequality when the Humanity exponent is not widened to include those who were never counted in the first place. A Chief Humanity Officer's work begins precisely where the Calculation ends: at the face of those who are present but invisible.

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Kian Tik Go (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c0e029fddb9876e79c1bc7https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19152827
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