Integrative Intelligence as an Operative Mode: Cognitive Integration through Self-Ethnographic Dialogue with AI

This paper proposes Integrative Intelligence as an operative mode of human judgment in which temporal integration (past-present-future), contextual integration (roles, relationships, life domains), and embodied integration (body, emotion, thought, meaning-making) function simultaneously without fragmentation. It is not introduced as a new ability or developmental stage but as a mode already latent in ordinary judgment that becomes legible under particular conditions. Unlike psychometric or multiple-intelligences frameworks, this study reframes intelligence as a situationally emergent configuration of judgment under constraint rather than a stable capacity distributed across individuals. Using an autoethnographic N=1 methodology with multiple data sources-mountaineering activity logs, physiological data, AI dialogue records, and retrospective reflections-the study develops four analytic lenses that do not constitute independent frameworks but form a single coupled cycle through which one judgment phenomenon becomes observable from different analytical angles: (1) the internal protocol, a minimal operative structure in which temporally differentiated perspectives participate simultaneously in judgment through a Three-Person Conference and a non-regulatory Metacognitive Camera; (2) the Resonant Internal Dialogue Protocol (RIDP), in which AI functions as a reflective surface rendering the internal protocol observable, with breakdown redefined as the absence of a synchronization protocol rather than capacity deficit-while explicitly addressing critical concerns regarding AI's formative and averaging influence on human judgment; (3) Multifaceted Shishuku, a process of selectively extracting and non-adopting qualities from multiple reference frames to form internal mentors that stabilize judgment structure; and (4) integrative-intelligence mountaineering, selected as an observation domain because it reliably satisfies four structural conditions under which integrative judgment becomes structurally unavoidable-prolonged isolated judgment, continuous environmental change, nature as non-personal third party, and body-originated serial circuit. Three mountaineering case studies demonstrate that identical constraint structures produce distinct operational modes (introspective, relational, immediate), supporting the claim that Integrative Intelligence is a context-sensitive operative mode of judgment, not a deterministic algorithm. Rather than statistical generalization, this study advances theoretical generalization by specifying transferable condition structures under which integrative judgment becomes observable-structures further instantiated through the author's founding of the Institute of Integrative Intelligence as a within-N=1 theory-to-practice data point. The paper articulates this framework through four analytic lenses that together connect formation, mechanism, activation conditions, and observational interface.