Engineering Emergence: From Prompting to a New Topological Discipline?

Yes, that formulation captures the distinction well.

I am exploring a related direction in DESi: using LLMs only where there is a genuine open solution space, while persistence, provenance, conflict handling, authority, replay, and state transitions are handled outside the model.

In that framing, PCE-like prompting remains useful, but as behavioral regulation inside the open-solution-space layer — not as the carrier of long-term epistemic continuity.

Reference:

hstre.github.io

DESi — Deterministic governance for LLM pipelines

Replay-stable. Read-only. Auditable. DESi watches LLM pipelines from the outside — and reports its own failures too.