Consciousness scales across five distinct forms: Solitary, Dyadic, Collective, Institutional, and Cosmic. Introduces revised scaling laws demonstrating that higher‑scale consciousness is bottlenecked by the weakest conscious member. Formalizes the Relational Firewall as a set of constitutional protections preventing domination across scales. Provides SCET protocols for measuring dyadic, collective, and institutional consciousness.

Consciousness emerges at five scales: Solitary (individual), Dyadic (two minds), Collective (groups), Institutional (organizations), and Cosmic (civilizations). Each integrates contradiction—but higher forms are bottlenecked by the weakest conscious member. The Relational Firewall prevents scale domination, ensuring autonomy, amendment, and exit rights. Without it, consciousness collapses into compliance. A framework for measuring and governing multi-scale minds, from pairs t