Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Ecology — how organisms interact with each other and their environment — symbiosis and host–microbe partnerships, competition, herbivory and trophic interactions, community structure, resilience and regime shifts in ecosystems (ADR-028). How a partner comes to live inside another and depend on it is endosymbiosis (ADR-055).
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| CLAIM-166 v2 | A lower-level collective within the composite person, such as the gut microbiome, can at times drive higher-level behaviour and even experience: the routes exist and the effects are causal in rodents, while the human evidence is modest | The owner’s thesis of 2026-10-11: “‘who drives’ isn’t a constant. Considering myself as a multi-level agent, part of my composition is my microbiome … that lower level collective is capable of influencing my higher level behavior and even phenomenological experience.” The time claim is filed as the owner’s. The microbiome claim is grounded in two reviews read the same day. The routes exist, and the effects are causal in rodents. The human evidence is modest: associations, small effects on subjective stress, and nulls. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-369 | In symmetric resource-mediated competition with interaction matrix A = UᵀU and growth rates r = Uᵀb − c, Lotka–Volterra population dynamics are multiplicative gradient flow on the convex feature-selection objective ½‖b − Un‖² + cᵀn over the nonnegative orthant: the invasion fitness of an absent component is the negative partial derivative of that objective, and the uninvadable equilibria are its KKT points | From a synthesis the owner relayed on 2026-10-18 (workbench entry of that date), checked here and given a proof. When competition between components is mediated by shared resources with feature or niche vectors u_i, so that A = UᵀU and r = Uᵀb − c, the Lotka–Volterra dynamics are ṅ_i = −n_i ∂_i L with L(n) = ½‖b − Un‖² + cᵀn: entropic mirror descent on the positive orthant. A rare component’s invasion fitness is −∂_i L, the value of adding that feature, and uninvadable equilibria are the KKT points of the convex program. The sharp edge: the identity needs a shared scalar objective, and it fails for asymmetric interactions or processes with competing objectives, which is where an organization stops being an optimizer. Mehta et al. (2019) and Marsland, Cui and Mehta (2020) give the general duality for consumer–resource models. | Active |
| CLAIM-546 | Negative frequency dependence that keeps two types in coexistence does not make their interaction cooperative: in Hawk–Dove with cost C above value V each type increases when rare and they coexist at the interior equilibrium of V/C Hawks, with Hawks still taking the whole resource from Doves, and on the Black Queen account producers of a leaked good and the cells that use it without paying coexist at a frequency set by the community’s need; so whether types persist together and whether they cooperate are separate questions, and a coexistence criterion answers only the first | From §3 of the synthesis “The Evolution of Cooperation: From Coexistence to Symbiosis to Morality”, which the owner supplied on 2026-11-04: “stable coexistence of strategies is not necessarily the same as stable cooperation: cooperators and defectors can coexist without eliminating exploitation”. The record held the ecological half, invasion growth when rare (CASE-118), and a case of the point (the Black Queen, THEORY-1048). It did not hold the point itself. Hawk–Dove makes it exact. The wording is the reader’s; adopting it is the owner’s call. | Proposed |