Extreme CF: A Structural Account of Processing Absence under Coherence Failure in CF-Foregrounded Configurations

Existing frameworks of cognition and intervention assume that processing occurs, meaning is available, and evaluation can be applied. This paper describes a configuration in which this assumption does not hold. In CF-foregrounded processing where modulation is absent, processing occurs only when coherence is satisfied. When coherence is not satisfied, processing does not occur. Under this condition, no representation is generated, no evaluation applies, and no action selection is produced. Because this configuration has not been represented as a category, it has not been treated as existing within existing systems. As a result, it is misclassified, and intervention is applied under conditions that are not satisfied. This paper shows that when coherence is not satisfied, processing does not occur, and that the absence of this configuration as a category leads to intervention mismatch and the necessity of naming.