The preceding articles describe a consistent structural pattern. Jurisdiction is established wherever consequence would otherwise disperse. It precedes standing. It precedes remedies. It precedes rights language. It exists to supply a lawful locus through which consequence may be assigned without illegitimacy.
Humans remain the exception.
Human jurisdiction names the recognition of the human as a jurisdictional subject at the point where consequence is assigned. It does not create new rights. It does not confer authority. It does not alter outcomes. It identifies the subject to whom consequence may be legitimately attached before systems act.
This recognition is Phase One.
Phase One concerns recognition only. It does not involve enforcement, insulation, remedies, or procedural redesign. It does not dictate how systems must operate. It establishes a prerequisite condition: that consequence directed at a human must be processed through a recognized jurisdictional locus rather than collapsing by default onto the person.
Human jurisdiction is not identity. It is not personhood. It is not citizenship, status, or entitlement. It does not depend on participation, consent, virtue, or capacity. It does not elevate the human above existing jurisdictions. It places the human alongside them as a subject capable of bearing consequence on coherent terms.
This recognition does not require symmetry of power. It requires symmetry of standing at the point of assignment. Systems may still deny, exclude, delay, or impose loss. Human jurisdiction concerns only whether such actions occur with prior recognition of the human as a subject through whom consequence must be routed.
Nothing in this recognition grants immunity from failure. Nothing in it guarantees favorable outcomes. It does not prevent harm. It establishes the condition under which harm may be assigned without structural asymmetry.
Phase One is intentionally limited. It does not address survivability, continuity, insulation, or participation. Those concerns arise only after recognition exists. Without recognition, no downstream mechanism can attach legitimately.
This article does not argue that human jurisdiction should be implemented. It records that, absent such recognition, systems already operate beyond the point where standing, due process, or remedies can restore legitimacy after the fact.
Human jurisdiction names the missing condition.
It is presented here without elaboration because it is not a solution. It is a prerequisite.