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LITs

41 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-11-01	Deferred	LIT-1927	1	6	2	Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-047	0	96	10	Is It Good to Cooperate? Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-005	0	61	8	Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-049	0	42	0	A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-046	0	21	0	The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-031	0	14	0	Moving away from lexicalism in psycho- and neuro-linguistics
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-079	0	11	3	Causal Claims in Economics
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-083	0	11	0	Toward interoperable representation and sharing of disinformation incidents in cyber threat intelligence
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-009	0	8	6	An 800 Myr-old Impact Shower on the Terrestrial Planets from the Breakup of the Eulalia Parent Body
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-017	0	7	2	Spectral Networks and Betti Lagrangians
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-057	0	4	0	Effect of delay on the emergent stability patterns in generalized Lotka–Volterra ecological dynamics
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-069	0	4	0	Surface optimization governs the local design of physical networks
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-059	0	1	0	The Strongest El Niño Ever
2026-09-25	Proposed	LIT-060	0	1	0	The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
2026-09-26	Proposed	LIT-188	0	80	36	Scaffolding individuality: coordination, cooperation, collaboration and community
2026-09-26	Proposed	LIT-200	0	23	0	Wave-functionalism
2026-09-26	Proposed	LIT-190	0	16	8	The coherent and fluent mind: how unified consciousness is constructed from cross-modal inputs via integrated processing experiences
2026-09-26	Proposed	LIT-208	0	16	6	Distributional Semantics, Holism, and the Instability of Meaning
2026-09-26	Proposed	LIT-193	0	14	2	Better to be a Pig Dissatisfied than a Plant Satisfied
2026-09-27	Proposed	LIT-267	0	27	9	The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models
2026-09-29	Proposed	LIT-310	0	21	18	A topos foundation for theories of physics: IV. Categories of systems
2026-09-30	Proposed	LIT-370	0	17	8	New Evidence of the Two-Phase Learning Dynamics of Neural Networks
2026-09-30	Proposed	LIT-369	0	16	12	Grokking and Generalization Collapse: Insights from HTSR theory
2026-10-01	Proposed	LIT-374	0	49	41	Structural Decoupling: A Scaffold-Flow Theory of Generalization and Alignment
2026-10-01	Proposed	LIT-376	0	8	1	Local Urysohn Width: A Topological Complexity Measure for Classification
2026-10-01	Proposed	LIT-375	0	5	1	Structural Learning Theory: A Metric-Topology Factorization Approach
2026-10-02	Proposed	LIT-503	0	42	7	Morality as Cooperation: A Problem-Centred Approach
2026-10-02	Proposed	LIT-496	0	35	12	Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire
2026-10-02	Proposed	LIT-509	0	7	1	Moral Molecules: Morality as a Combinatorial System
2026-10-02	Proposed	LIT-512	0	6	1	Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies
2026-10-03	Proposed	LIT-676	0	17	0	Unveiling Mode Connectivity in Graph Neural Networks
2026-10-03	Proposed	LIT-677	0	14	0	Unveiling mode-connectivity of the ELBO landscape
2026-10-03	Proposed	LIT-660	0	11	0	Mode Connectivity Beyond Classifiers: Evidence from Generative and Contrastive Models
2026-10-18	Deferred	LIT-1206	0	4	1	Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations
2026-10-18	Deferred	LIT-1216	0	4	1	Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, Seventh Edition
2026-10-27	Deferred	LIT-1609	0	4	1	Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means
2026-11-01	Deferred	LIT-1926	0	4	1	Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality
2026-11-01	Deferred	LIT-1932	0	3	2	Development, Culture, and the Units of Inheritance
2026-11-01	Deferred	LIT-1940	0	3	1	Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality
2026-11-01	Deferred	LIT-1935	0	2	2	Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?
2026-11-01	Deferred	LIT-1937	0	2	1	The Units of Evolutionary Transition

THEORYs

609 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-055	9	72	16	An appraisal of an event’s pertinence to the agent’s concerns elicits the emotion, as a state of action readiness, and emotions differ by their mode of action readiness
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-054	8	70	8	A regulation is autonomous to the degree it is integrated with one’s other values and needs: autonomy is graded, and is not set by the order of the attitude that endorses it
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-159	8	35	15	In a language a term’s value is fixed by its relations to the coexisting terms of the same system, so terms that share a signification can differ in value
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-101	7	60	16	Consciousness began as hedonic valence, which evolved as a common currency for trading off competing options in action selection among animals with many degrees of freedom
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-067	6	45	2	Self-control over time needs no faculty of will: interests that dominate at different delays bargain, and resolve is the recursive staking of expected future choices on the present one
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-070	5	44	7	How much cognitive control to exert, and on what, is decided by a cost-benefit computation (the expected value of control) in a specification system distinct from the structures that implement the control
2026-10-23	Proposed	THEORY-893	5	25	4	Reward has separable components: ‘liking’, its hedonic impact, measurable without report by orofacial taste reactivity in humans, apes, monkeys and rodents, and ‘wanting’, its incentive salience; brain stimulation and sensitization can raise ‘wanting’ without raising ‘liking’, so motivation can grow while pleasure stays flat or falls, and ‘liking’ reactions can occur without any subjective feeling of pleasure
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-411	4	8	5	In Sen’s capability approach the weighting of functionings is left to public reasoning, and evaluation can still guide action without agreement on weights: where every weighting in an agreed range, or every view by its own argument, ranks one option above another, that ranking holds, so the approach is deliberately incomplete and yields a partial ordering
2026-10-23	Proposed	THEORY-895	4	18	11	Incentive sensitization: repeated drug exposure can make the mesolimbic ‘wanting’ system lastingly hyper-reactive to drug cues and contexts, so that cue-triggered incentive salience grows, persists for years and even increases during abstinence, while ‘liking’ need not rise and may fall; sensitized ‘wanting’ can oppose the person’s cognitive desire, and incentive salience can run without any reportable change in feeling
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-029	3	113	2	A higher-order attitude cannot make a motive the agent’s own by its order alone: any attitude specified without presupposing the agent’s participation can itself be disowned, and any specified to include it presupposes what it was meant to explain
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-040	3	105	8	A condition on free agency stated only in present psychological structure is met by a manipulated agent, so the account must count that agent free or add a historical condition, and no historical condition in the record’s readings is shown to escape
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-069	3	53	3	Rhythmic bimanual coordination switches from anti-phase to in-phase through a nonequilibrium phase transition in relative phase, captured by the HKB equation, with critical fluctuations and critical slowing as early warning
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-047	3	39	1	A regulation taken in under controlling conditions is introjected rather than integrated, so the social history of how a value was acquired shapes how autonomous acting on it is
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1284	3	12	6	Organization is a secondary accomplishment of change: change in organizations is continuous, as actors reweave their webs of beliefs and habits to accommodate new experience, and organization is both the attempt to stabilize that flux and the pattern that emerges from it
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-092	2	25	3	Behavioural capacity does not fix intelligence: a system with the capacity to respond sensibly to every possible input can lack it, so whether behaviour is intelligent, or the mark of any mental property, depends partly on how it is produced
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-116	2	14	1	A linear barrier between two minima that survives the removal of symmetries marks a difference in the input attributes the two models rely on: they compute by different mechanisms
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-115	2	9	1	Linear connectivity from a shared, already-stable start holds only when the objectives the runs optimise share structure, and breaks as that structure is removed
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-139	2	57	16	A corporation that forms its judgments through authorised avowal and corrects the inconsistency any mechanical aggregation of its members’ views produces has a mind of its own, and as a conversable agent it meets the conditions for being fit to be held responsible: a significant choice, the capacity to judge its options normatively, and control over acting on that judgment
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-131	2	30	6	A corporation whose Corporate Internal Decision (CID) Structure, an organizational chart of stations plus recognition rules embedded in corporate policy, licenses redescribing its members’ acts as done for corporate reasons is a non-eliminable intentional agent, unlike a mob; and if intentional agency suffices for moral personhood, which French asserts but here says he cannot further argue, such a corporation is a full-fledged moral person
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-662	2	18	4	The feeling of fluency is an inference about the precision of one’s own processing, triggered by a change in precision against expectation; because its cause is internal and not given to introspection, a felt discrepancy is attributed to the most salient external source, as familiarity, liking or a sense of error
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-406	2	12	0	Self-presentations that differ by audience coexist without trouble while the audiences are kept apart by spatial, social and temporal boundaries, and collide when a medium removes the boundaries; networked publics make the collision frequent and often unseen by the person it happens to
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1278	2	16	4	Communication can be treated as transduction, the continuity of an action through processes that it transforms, rather than as exchange between parties; meaning is then the contribution an action makes, in retrospect, to a joint individuation, coexisting meanings mark concurrent individuations, and the problem of scaling agency from individual to collective is claimed to dissolve
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1280	2	16	5	Agency can be redescribed without agents, as the affective force by which one individuation process takes up another’s excess action in a communicative event and both pass from a lesser to an augmented ability to act; agents are then effects of such events, and the absence of the force is disindividuation
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1276	2	15	5	In Simondon’s ontology, as his organization-studies readers take it, information is not a signal transmitted between finished entities but a disparity between two differently ordered domains of a metastable system, and its meaning is the new structure that transduction produces in resolving it
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1279	2	15	4	Organizational categories are radially structured, so applying them to nonprototypical cases extends and changes them; this is one source of continuous change in routine organizational action
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-056	1	104	7	Emotion regulation is not a process separate from emotion generation: most of it is one motive state checking another, with no distinct regulating system above them
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-064	1	59	1	What is experienced as a self is the content of a self-model the system cannot recognise as a model, and nothing beyond such models is a self
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-050	1	36	2	Psychological inflexibility, in which verbal relations give private events aversive functions and make experiential avoidance a general strategy, is a transdiagnostic process in psychopathology
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-090	1	33	3	A basic, affective form of consciousness is realised subcortically, in the upper brainstem and thalamus, before and without cortex, and its first function is alarm: survival behaviour, care for the body and generalised one-shot learning, with no choice between options
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-062	1	25	9	Model-based and model-free predictions both operate in instrumental and in Pavlovian learning, and which one controls behaviour follows their relative reliability, not the preference of a supervising system
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-094	1	25	3	Neither report nor no-report paradigms isolate the neural basis of consciousness, because post-perceptual cognition that tracks the percept persists without report; only a design that removes differential post-perceptual cognition does
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-103	1	21	4	Perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access: in partial-report tasks more items are experienced than the roughly four that working memory holds, though any one of them can be accessed when cued
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-120	1	32	2	A motive is the agent’s own, and she acts of her own free will, when she identifies with it, and that is all the freedom moral responsibility requires: identification is the conformity of the effective desire to a decisive higher-order volition (1971), and later wholehearted acceptance with no conflict at any higher order
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-125	1	20	9	A group can itself be in an emotional state that is not its members’ states in aggregation, when its distributed routines integrate the capacities an emotion requires into one action-oriented representation; because emotions are functional kinds such a state need not be felt, and no actual case has yet been shown
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-232	1	32	7	A whole can be compared in agency with its parts, relative to a chosen decomposition and the parts’ goals: it is more agential when its organization lets the parts resolve more of their mutual constraints than they do at the equilibrium of their former organization, which shows as delayed gratification
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-311	1	6	0	Groupware that requires extra work from members who do not perceive a direct benefit from it, where that work is not made part of their job, is resisted or goes unused, and the applications that succeed in groups without a mandate give each user who does the work a benefit of their own
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-680	1	31	0	Emotion regulation is a set of processes distinct from emotion generation, by which people influence which emotions they have, when, and how they are experienced and expressed; regulatory acts can be sorted by the point in the generative sequence where they act, and acting before response tendencies form (reappraisal) has different consequences from acting after (suppression)
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-577	1	29	5	Our judgments that consciousness poses a hard problem are behaviour, so explaining them is an easy problem that can be solved without mentioning consciousness; and a theory that names a mechanism as the basis of consciousness owes an account of how that mechanism produces those judgments, which IIT and biological theories struggle to give, since a functional duplicate with zero integrated information, or in silicon, would make the same reports
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-671	1	21	0	An open system with enough internal degrees of freedom settles, among its possible steady states, into the one of maximum entropy production; this selects among steady states, where Prigogine’s minimum principle only describes relaxation toward one
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-468	1	19	9	Morality is the set of solutions to recurrent problems of cooperation, so each of the seven cooperation problems game theory identifies yields a moral domain valued in every culture, and behaviour unrelated to cooperation is morally neutral
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-447	1	17	0	Granted that a person survives a brain transplant and that half a brain would do, each product of a division stands in all that matters in ordinary survival, so what matters is not identity, which is one-one and all-or-nothing, but psychological relations that can branch and come in degrees
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-691	1	15	0	A self is an abstractum like a centre of gravity, posited by interpreting a person’s behaviour and talk, the brain’s own autobiography included; it is as determinate as that story, it can be authored by a process with no self in it, and a body holds as many selves as the points the best story coheres around
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-614	1	7	5	If pretraining text is a mixture of hidden Markov models indexed by a latent concept and a model fits that distribution exactly, then a prompt of concatenated examples moves the posterior onto the prompt’s concept, and the in-context predictor becomes Bayes-optimal as examples accumulate, whenever each example’s evidence for the concept outweighs the cost of the improbable transitions between examples; whether trained networks learn in context this way is not shown
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-564	1	5	5	A bounded generative model can learn its own structure with no machinery beyond inference and learning: spare hidden-state slots with flat likelihoods get filled when an observation fits none of the learned causes, and Bayesian model reduction on the learned prior over states can return unneeded slots, though in a toy concept-learning task it recovers the true number of causes in only 45–80% of runs with four to seven causes, and never with two or three, unless the likelihood is given
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-643	1	4	0	The restrictions on syntax reaching into words that a separate word-formation component was credited with are restrictions on heads versus phrases and on what individual affixes select, and phrases feed word formation, so a single combinatorial component can build both words and phrases
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-558	1	3	1	Moral judgment is usually caused by quick affective intuitions, and moral reasoning is usually a post-hoc search for supporting reasons that changes judgments mainly by triggering intuitions in other people
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-560	1	2	0	In rodents, gut microbes can drive stress and affect-related behaviour through vagal, immune, endocrine and metabolite routes, and faecal transplant from depressed people partly transfers the phenotype; in people, probiotics have so far shown at most small reductions in subjective stress in healthy volunteers, and strains with strong preclinical records have failed in controlled trials
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-561	1	1	0	If moral evaluation has thresholds below which effects are negligible, a system of agents can do good or evil that none of its members’ interactions does, and the same thresholds make an environment tolerant of small evils and inert to small goods; on the examples offered the non-additivity lies in the evaluation, as a step function of summed impact, not in the actions
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-767	1	54	0	Body ownership draws on interoceptive as well as exteroceptive signals: a visual cue synchronous with one’s heartbeat increases ownership of a virtual hand and identification with a virtual body, and lower interoceptive sensitivity goes with greater susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-885	1	12	8	Politics is more prone than markets to increasing returns, and so to path dependence, because it is dense with compulsory institutions and policies, rests on collective action and is opaque, so that institutions, collective action and shared interpretations of politics all feed back on themselves; and once on a path political actors leave it less readily than market actors, because competition and learning correct weakly, elected officials discount the future at the electoral cycle, and institutions are built to be hard to change
2026-10-23	Proposed	THEORY-892	1	5	0	Psychopathy as the PCL-R measures it is one dimensional construct rather than a type: its items form four correlated factors, interpersonal, affective, lifestyle and antisocial, explained by one superordinate factor, and its affective features are tied psychometrically, genetically and longitudinally to its antisocial ones, so that no one component is its essence
2026-10-28	Proposed	THEORY-1114	1	57	6	Which self-category a person uses, what it means and who in it is most typical vary lawfully with the comparative frame of reference: a grouping of self with others becomes salient as the differences within it shrink relative to the differences between it and the rest of the frame (metacontrast) and as those differences match expectations about the category, and as it does, self-perception is depersonalized
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1111	1	6	1	Spectators’ identification with football clubs varies on two independent axes, how central the club is to the self (hot or cool) and whether the tie rests on local tradition or on market consumption, giving supporters, followers, fans and flâneurs; and commodification since the late 1980s has shifted identification from supporters towards flâneurs
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1285	1	22	8	Organizational action can be described as pre-individual, so that whose action it is, a person’s or an organization’s, is an outcome of the individuations it is allowed to contribute to rather than a given; an action then has as many significations as the individuations it takes part in, and a person whose action is refused a collective’s recognition experiences that as disindividuation
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1277	1	10	5	Persons and organizations can be described not as successive stages, with the collective built up from individuals, but as coexisting levels of ordering through which one action propagates, each preserving its components; on that description the problem of scaling up from individual to organizational action does not arise
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1282	1	9	2	Affect, in Massumi’s sense, is the felt transition of a body’s power to affect and be affected toward a diminished or augmented capacitation, offered as a proposition to be regenerated in each use rather than a definition to apply
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1300	1	10	4	In mind-wandering the capacity for veto over one’s own mental processes is kept and its representation in the self-model is lost, and on Metzinger’s principle a capacity can be deliberately exercised only while it is so represented; the loss of M-autonomy is then the loss of a condition of the capacity’s efficacy, not of the capacity
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1294	1	9	4	Constitution is best inferred, and only abductively, from the failure to break a coupling: a set of parts constitutes a phenomenon when every cause of the phenomenon is also a cause of some member of the set, no smaller set does as much, and no expansion of the variables studied turns up a cause of the phenomenon that spares them all, so constitutive relevance is fixed by the set a part belongs to and no finite series of experiments settles it
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1296	1	4	0	Deliberate thought selects and sustains candidates from a stream of unintended thoughts that mind-wandering generates, and whether the conscious model of oneself as a knower that accompanies the selection causes it, enables it or only accompanies it is undecided by current evidence
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1297	1	3	1	Mind-wandering is a recurring loss of M-autonomy, the veto-centred ability to suspend or end one’s own ongoing mental processes; on the figures Metzinger uses, it takes about half of conscious time, not the two thirds he states
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1341	1	11	0	In Jennings’s hybrid account, attention is prioritization of processing by a subject that is the whole collection of an organism’s fixed, formed and fluid interests, separated from filtering by whether selection answers to that collection, marked by feedback from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; when interests are equally weighted, attention breaks the stalemate and updates the chosen option’s value, so that a fluid interest becomes a formed one
2026-11-04	Proposed	THEORY-1352	1	7	0	In Van Lange and Bergmann’s model, human cooperation is readily sustained between individuals, above all in dyads, through precise reciprocity, empathy and a partner who cannot be excluded at no cost, and is fragile between groups: categorization alone yields mistrust and in-group favouritism by bounded reciprocity, observed out-group favouritism hardens it into distrust, and only negative interdependence, real or perceived, turns that into costly competition, aggression and hate, so that the processes that build in-group cooperation can fuel intergroup conflict
2026-09-26	Proposed	THEORY-002	0	60	21	Convergence of representations, in the Platonic hypothesis’s sense, is convergence of kernels, which fixes representations only up to the symmetry group of what is observed; whether closeness in distribution implies closeness of representation depends on the distance used
2026-09-26	Proposed	THEORY-001	0	50	1	On a finite augmentation space, InfoNCE, logistic and spectral contrastive losses share one population optimum: the positive-pair density ratio
2026-09-26	Proposed	THEORY-005	0	42	1	The positive-pair density ratio is the kernel of the conditional-expectation operator on L²(p), so spectral representations are that operator’s eigenfunctions, well defined when the positive-pair χ²-divergence is finite
2026-09-27	Proposed	THEORY-013	0	68	17	Once context-dependent marginals are separated from contextuality, the behavioural, social and word-meaning data published as contextual show none
2026-09-27	Proposed	THEORY-010	0	12	6	Grangier and Auffèves’s contextual objectivity is an ontological postulate, not contextuality in either formal sense: its one argued consequence, unpredictability after a change of context, is reproduced by an epistemically restricted classical model
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-023	0	155	3	Current evidence cannot settle whether an AI system is conscious: mimicry undercuts behavioural evidence and architectural indicators presuppose the disputed computational functionalism, so the dispute is over what counts as evidence as well as the answer
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-036	0	47	3	Dennett’s real-pattern criterion, compressibility against the bit map, admits almost every non-random pattern; the projectibility, perspective and scale-relativity that rainforest realism needs are later additions that do the ontological work
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-039	0	35	4	The later phases reported in neural-network training differ in kind: after the transition a network may simplify its weights, acquire item-specific information, lose generalisation, confine its tangent kernel or saturate its units, and none of these is a measured compression of I(X;T)
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-022	0	32	4	The reverse-engineered grokking network computes modular addition by multiplying characters of ℤ/p at a few frequencies, the same real two-dimensional irreducibles later found as circles in language models; in both the group comes from the task, not the network
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-025	0	14	5	Neither utility information nor resource holdings, alone or together, can register claims that arise from how differently people convert resources into what they can do and be: equal resources leave unequal capabilities, and utility adapts to deprivation
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-038	0	8	0	Category theory gives radical ontic structural realism no formal support: generalized elements exist in every category, morphisms relate objects the category presupposes, and Bain’s physical cases eliminate spacetime points, not relata
2026-09-30	Proposed	THEORY-033	0	6	0	The measured noise scale B_simple tracks the critical batch size within about 10× on six of eight tasks and about 20× on two generative models, so the gradient’s noise-to-signal ratio sets the critical batch only as far as the local quadratic model with an optimal step holds
2026-10-02	Proposed	THEORY-043	0	205	6	A mind of mindless agents and a mind of minded agents are one functionalist move run in two directions, and what separates them is an anti-nesting principle or an architectural criterion, neither yet principled
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-045	0	84	3	Felt affect is the experience of the body’s regulatory state, valenced by what that state means for staying alive and present throughout waking experience, not only in emotion; whether what is felt is a prediction of that state or a map of it is unsettled
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-072	0	78	6	Organisms differ from dissipative structures such as a candle flame not by far-from-equilibrium self-maintenance, nor by circular self-maintenance alone, but by organisational differentiation: several distinct constraints that produce one another at different time scales
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-071	0	76	7	Minimal agency requires individuality, interactional asymmetry and self-generated normativity, and individuality without the other two is not agency
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-052	0	59	5	Frustration of the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness is a transdiagnostic process in psychopathology
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-057	0	53	14	Emotion categories are populations of variable instances grouped by the perceiver’s concepts, not natural kinds with a shared neural or appraisal mechanism
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-063	0	52	6	The unity of experience is the integration of one global world-model into a single functional cluster, and it does not require a self-model
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-058	0	36	5	Mental disorders are maintained by self-reinforcing causal loops rather than expressing a latent common cause, which is how they can outlast their triggers
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-096	0	31	10	Perceptual consciousness is global availability: a content becomes conscious when the activity it drives into a core of long-range hub neurons, prefrontal among them, crosses a threshold and ignites it, so that the network amplifies, sustains and broadcasts that one content to the specialised processors; below threshold it leaves a decaying wave and is not experienced
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-049	0	29	2	Whether an external event lowers or raises intrinsic motivation depends on whether it is experienced as controlling or as information about competence
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-044	0	26	6	In relational frame theory the self is verbal behaviour’s content, its process and its context, and the self as context is a perspective learned from deictic relations that cannot itself be found as content
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-095	0	24	2	Phenomenal character is not fixed by long-arm functional role or by externally individuated representational content: on Inverted Earth it stays the same while both invert, so only internal accounts, short-arm functional or physical, remain open
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-051	0	23	0	Strengthening the self as context, a perspective from which thoughts about oneself are held as thoughts, is a process by which acceptance and commitment therapy reduces suffering
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-078	0	22	3	The top C eigenvalues of a trained C-class classifier’s Fisher are carried by the second moment of its class-mean logit derivatives, so a cut at the bulk edge keeps the span of the class means, and they stand clear of the bulk to the extent between-class separation exceeds within-class variation
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-084	0	22	8	Because the Gauss–Newton Fisher JᵀJ and the NTK Gram matrix JJᵀ share their non-zero spectrum, the lazy-regime Fisher of a ReLU network on spherical data inherits the NTK’s harmonic-degree blocks, and a spectral threshold on it is well posed only at gaps between blocks
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-100	0	22	2	A neural correlate of conscious report does not require laminar cortex: in crows it is carried by the nidopallium caudolaterale, a nuclear pallial region whose neurons follow the reported percept rather than the stimulus
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-109	0	22	6	The solutions SGD finds in a deep network lie in one connected low-loss set, joined by simple curves and spanning volumes of measurable dimension, and this is a property of the solutions training finds, not of every minimum
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-091	0	21	5	A deficit in which consciousness and a capacity are lost together does not show that the capacity is a function of phenomenal consciousness, since access is lost too and the capacity is one the machinery of access has
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-118	0	21	4	Praiseworthiness is compatible with being psychologically determined by good reasons, but blameworthiness requires that the agent could have done otherwise, that is, could have acted on the right reasons
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-122	0	21	2	Moral responsibility requires the normative competence to recognise and act on the True and the Good, which identification with one’s own motives does not supply
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-080	0	18	5	In a linearised network with a Gaussian prior on its parameters, the Occam factor is a sum over the NTK’s eigenvalues, so on spherical data each harmonic pays ½ log(1 + βnµ_k/α) and the kernel’s eigenvalue decay schedules the complexity penalty across frequencies
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-085	0	15	2	A classifier’s class-driven Fisher outliers pair each class’s feature mean with that class’s own error mean, so K-FAC’s single Kronecker product of class-averaged factors adds every cross-class pairing and misplaces them
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-098	0	15	3	The neural basis of perceptual consciousness does not include the prefrontal machinery of cognitive access: it is recurrent activity in sensory cortex
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-060	0	13	2	A life story constructed from adolescence on is the form a person’s diachronic identity takes, and its content shapes later well-being
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-076	0	13	1	Diachronic self-governance is constituted by cross-temporal links of intention that are intrapersonal analogues of shared intention, not by narrative unity and not by intertemporal bargaining
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-065	0	12	2	The unity that makes a movement an agent’s action is achieved by conformity to the constitutive norms of agency, not given by the causal unity of a mind, so collective agents are agents in the same sense as individual ones
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-088	0	12	4	Slow large-scale activity in human cortex is organised as in a pattern-forming medium: its flow is set by interacting spiral defects centred on phase singularities, which sit on boundaries between functional regions, annihilate with spirals of opposite rotation and repel those of the same
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-104	0	12	2	Under distribution shift the best layer for a linear readout lies below the top: across the last layers of a trained network, in-distribution accuracy rises while out-of-distribution accuracy falls
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-106	0	12	2	In random-features ridge regression the double-descent peak is a divergence of the test error at the interpolation threshold 2N = n as the ridge goes to zero, which a positive ridge keeps finite and a ridge of the tuned size removes; minimum-norm linear regression has the same peak at n = d in exact finite-sample form
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-110	0	12	3	A set of trained solutions has a centre that is linearly connected, after alignment, to the rest of them: the solution set is a star domain even where it is not convex
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-093	0	11	2	A content of mind is conscious when a continuous flow of homeostatic feelings identifies it as the organism’s own; the feelings are conscious in themselves and hybrid, partly made of the body state they map, because interoceptive pathways let the body act directly on the neurons that map it
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-048	0	10	2	In explaining psychiatric disorder, biological findings implement psychological functions rather than replacing them
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-061	0	10	2	In evidence-accumulation tasks, goals and instructions act on a decision by setting the parameters of the accumulation (drift, starting point or baseline, and threshold), not by specifying the response, and this holds for when to act as well as for which
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-108	0	10	6	Across load and temperature, the connectivity and output similarity of independently trained solutions predict test accuracy where endpoint curvature does not: a flat but poorly connected landscape generalizes worse than a connected one of the same curvature
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-075	0	8	4	Obligation is the reflective rejection of what would violate the agent’s practical identity, and moral obligation follows only because valuing any practical identity commits the agent to valuing her humanity
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-079	0	7	0	Bayesian model reduction under the Laplace approximation prices the reductions of a singular parent model with a Gaussian Occam factor, so its free-energy differences can be wrong by a term that grows with log n
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-074	0	6	3	Implicit accessibility of the true self-concept is not what self-report scales of authenticity or of need satisfaction measure, though those two self-reports are not shown to be separate constructs
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-077	0	6	2	Goals pursued for identified or intrinsic reasons receive more sustained effort, which carries their better attainment, and attaining them raises well-being more than attaining goals pursued under pressure
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-089	0	6	2	The content of a mental representation has two factors, a narrow conceptual role inside the head and a referential factor relating it to the world, and a long-arm role theory that gets Twin Earth truth conditions right reduces to the same two
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-059	0	5	2	The readiness potential does not show that a neural decision to act precedes awareness of the urge to act
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-097	0	5	2	Long-range coordination in the human forebrain is carried by brief ripples that co-occur at distant sites: during them neurons co-fire more whatever the distance between them, and at retrieval they carry stimulus-specific reinstatement of encoding co-firing
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-107	0	5	2	Merging models fine-tuned from one pretrained start loses accuracy through interference in parameter coordinates: redundant small updates dilute the influential ones, and influential updates of different models conflict in sign
2026-10-03	Proposed	THEORY-099	0	0	0	Tryptophan networks in microtubule architectures support collective superradiant excitonic states, and their thermal quantum yield rises with network size and survives static disorder of room-temperature size
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-119	0	29	3	An agent can be morally responsible for what she did although she could not have done otherwise, when what made the action unavoidable played no part in bringing it about, so the principle of alternate possibilities is false
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-126	0	27	12	A collective emotion is the synchronous convergence of individuals’ affective responses to one event or object, produced bottom-up by shared appraisal, contagion and group membership, and it needs no group subject; it takes a We-mode form when the appraisals rest on collectively intentional states
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-129	0	9	4	In Acropora millepora the natural night-light regime is necessary for spawning on the expected night, and displacing it delays or abolishes both release and a spawning-night programme of G-protein-coupled signalling genes
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-130	0	7	4	Coral bleaching is the breakdown of a regulated host–symbiont exchange, reached by more than one route, not a single mechanism of symbiont loss
2026-10-04	Proposed	THEORY-128	0	6	0	After mass bleaching, coral recovery on a reef crest depends on large herbivorous fishes keeping macroalgae down, because recovery runs through recruitment and survival that macroalgae suppress, not through the persistence of surviving colonies alone
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-151	0	27	4	Scientific objectivity belongs to a community’s critical practices rather than to individual method: because evidence bears on hypotheses only through background assumptions that no evidence supports, a community is objective to the degree that its criticism has venues, uptake, public standards and tempered equality of intellectual authority
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-141	0	26	1	In a major evolutionary transition, where formerly free-living units come to form a higher-level unit, the collective is stable only if selection between collectives comes to trump selection among the units within them, typically through mechanisms such as policing, kinship and division of labour that align the interests of the units; the levels at which selection acts are then a product of evolution, to be explained rather than assumed
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-143	0	26	2	When a group learns only about the options its members pursue and good evidence is scarce, sparser communication makes it more likely to settle on the better option, at a large cost in speed; when evidence is plentiful, sparsity only slows learning
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-148	0	23	2	A group learning by trying needs diversity in what its members pursue that lasts long enough to survive misleading early evidence and then gives way to consensus; limited communication and stubborn priors each supply it, and together they make it permanent, so the group never settles
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-145	0	21	1	Organizations that espouse revising their governing values characteristically fail to, because the theory-in-use people actually act on keeps premises tacit and tests self-sealing, and the resulting defensive routines make the inconsistency, and its undiscussability, undiscussable; so errors are corrected within the governing values (single-loop) while the values themselves go unexamined
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-142	0	16	7	Because the returns to exploitation are surer, nearer and closer to the decision than the returns to exploration, organizational learning refines exploitation faster and tends to become self-destructive in the long run; and where an organizational code learns only from members who deviate from it, slow socialization, a mix of slow and fast learners and moderate turnover raise what the organization knows, while without turnover a changing environment degrades its knowledge to chance
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-154	0	15	2	Whether an expected tangible reward lowers or raises later intrinsic motivation depends on how tightly its stated contingency ties it to performance and success
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-147	0	13	2	Deep responsibility is not limited to the moral, and attributability and accountability are independent kinds of it rather than two levels: accountability needs only that the agent acted as she ought not to, was in a position to know it, and that acting so was up to her, while what makes a self a fit target of the reactive attitudes is plausibly that it can perceive, understand and appreciate the world as we do
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-137	0	12	6	Attributions of mental states to institutions, such as the knowledge that the collective knowledge doctrine of corporate criminal law attributes to a corporation no member of which held it, work largely by shaping the institutions to which they are made rather than by describing states they already had: the attribution holds the institution to a norm, the institution builds structures to meet it, and it becomes more predictable from the intentional stance, whether or not institutions really have minds
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-144	0	11	0	Under steady cost and effort pressure, an organization’s activity migrates toward the boundary of acceptable performance, and redundant defences erode unobserved because a breach of one shows no effect, so that major accidents arise from many locally reasonable decisions rather than from coincident errors
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-150	0	11	3	A platform that sits between the two sides of a market and can cheaply change how it allocates value tends to decay in three stages, first good to its users, then abusing them to favour its business customers, then abusing both to claw the value back for itself, each stage made possible by the lock-in the one before it built; how far it can go is set by the cost of leaving, so lowering that cost is the remedy
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-153	0	10	5	A system can keep its identity independently within a shared environment only if it has five interacting subsystems, the first made of elements that are themselves viable systems, so that the structure recurs at every level of recursion; when one is missing or fails, the system degrades in characteristic ways, and without the subsystem for foresight the subsystems for operational control and for identity collapse into each other, leaving a system that can only react
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-152	0	8	4	When a firm, public service or other organization deteriorates, its members’ exit and voice are both recuperation mechanisms: voice carries richer information than exit and can be felt as a benefit rather than a cost, exit can be costly even without loyalty and can signal nothing, loyalty makes members voice rather than exit, and an organization needs floor levels of both for feedback but disintegrates or is disrupted beyond ceiling levels, while its managers may favour whichever response least threatens their hold on power
2026-10-05	Proposed	THEORY-135	0	7	1	Multicellular cooperation depends on suppressing cells that gain fitness at the expense of the organism, across five foundations (proliferation inhibition, controlled cell death, division of labour, resource allocation and maintenance of the extracellular environment); cancer-like cheating on them is found across the independent origins of complex multicellularity, so complex multicellularity can be understood as a system for detecting and suppressing cheaters
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-186	0	71	1	A deep linear network trained from small weights learns the singular modes of its input–output correlations one at a time in order of strength, each in a sharp sigmoidal transition, while a shallow network learns them all together; the stages come from the product of layers and the data’s spectrum, not from nonlinearity
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-182	0	41	1	A rank-limited contrastive word embedding trained from small initialisation learns the top eigenvectors of the co-occurrence matrix’s relative deviation from independence, one at a time in order of eigenvalue, not the best low-rank approximation of its unconstrained optimum
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-183	0	31	0	When the co-occurrence of words on a latent continuum depends only on their separation, a spectral word embedding places them on the Fourier modes of that continuum, so the circles and rippled curves of months, years and places come from a symmetry of the corpus statistics
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-201	0	28	2	In next-token prediction on hierarchically generated sequences, the correlation between two tokens falls by about a factor m per level of their common ancestor, so a training set of P sequences resolves correlations only out to a distance t*(P) at which they meet sampling noise; learners come to represent the hidden symbols up to that depth, giving loss steps at about v m^(2ℓ−1) examples, and on character-level text the context at which the loss saturates grows as P^(1/(2β)) with β the measured correlation decay
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-188	0	24	0	In a random graph whose nodes lie in a hyperbolic disk and connect by distance, a power-law degree distribution and strong clustering follow from the geometry: the degree exponent is set by node density relative to curvature, clustering by a temperature, and removing the angular, metric part of the distance leaves the configuration model
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-167	0	23	0	The Russian wondertale is built from a small fixed set of character functions in a fixed order, so that all wondertales share one composition and differ in who performs the functions and how
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-199	0	23	2	In data generated by a random hierarchical grammar, the Bayes-optimal denoiser recovers the top-level class only below a threshold noise, which becomes sharp as the tree deepens and exists only when the grammar uses a small enough fraction of possible tuples (branching times that fraction below one), while low-level features degrade smoothly with noise and so survive past the threshold
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-196	0	22	0	A finite tree embeds in the hyperbolic plane with worst-case distortion 1 + ε, but because a hyperbolic distance d takes about d bits to write, its coordinates need Θ((ℓ/ε) log deg_max) bits: logarithmic in the branching, linear in the longest path ℓ, so hyperbolic space is economical for shallow bushy hierarchies and not for deep ones
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-162	0	18	7	What an utterance does to the context it is used in is part of its meaning, and its truth conditions do not fix it: sentences with the same truth conditions can differ in what they make available to later discourse, in whether they inform or only test, and in whether they describe a state of affairs or bring one about
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-173	0	17	0	Large models are a cultural and social technology rather than agents: lossy, uninvertible summaries of human-produced information that, like prices and bureaucratic categories, let it be reorganized at scale
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-157	0	15	2	The classical theorems on sufficient statistics need only the copy/discard structure of Markov kernels: Basu’s theorem holds in every Markov category, and Fisher–Neyman and Bahadur need only strict positivity, not the existence of conditional distributions
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-180	0	12	0	In a tied single-head attention layer trained by ridge-penalized empirical risk minimization on high-dimensional Gaussian sequences, weight decay is a nuclear-norm penalty on the query–key map, and the learned map is a soft-thresholded noisy copy of the target: its outliers are recovered target directions and its bulk is finite-sample noise
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-170	0	10	0	Languages differ in what their grammar obliges a speaker to convey rather than in what they can convey, so interlingual translation must add some information and leave some unexpressed, and repeated translation can erode a message
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-200	0	9	2	On sparse hierarchical data, deep networks become insensitive to swapping synonymous parts and to small displacements of informative features at the training-set size at which they learn the task
2026-10-09	Proposed	THEORY-203	0	4	2	In data generated by a random hierarchical grammar, the tokens that Bayes-optimal noising and denoising changes do so in blocks set by the depth of the latent that changed, and the block size, measured as the correlation length of the changes, diverges at the noise threshold where the top-level class is lost, as a power of the distance to it whose exponent is log(branching) over log(slope of the level-to-level belief map at its unstable fixed point); a Gaussian field with power-law spectrum has instead a correlation length of changes that grows with noise to the end of the process
2026-10-10	Proposed	THEORY-208	0	9	1	Agency is multiply realisable without cognition or mental states, and AI is a new kind of it
2026-10-10	Proposed	THEORY-207	0	7	2	Responsibility for a morally loaded outcome that emerges from morally neutral interactions in a network of agents can be allocated without fault or intention, by default and overridably, in full to every causally accountable node, and a rule so allocating it, made common knowledge, works as a corrective that prevents such outcomes
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-209	0	45	10	A converged network trained with SGD is not at a point and does not sample its training loss: under a quadratic approximation it samples a Gibbs distribution on a modified loss, isotropic in the Hessian’s column space, with probability currents that keep it oscillating, so its speed and spread are set by the learning rate, momentum and batch size
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-210	0	22	3	Continuous parameter symmetries stretch a network’s minima into connected manifolds along which the loss is flat, and give gradient flow conserved quantities that fix where on such a manifold training ends; finite steps, gradient noise and weight decay break them, so the position along a symmetry orbit is set by initialization and optimizer, not by the loss
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-219	0	18	10	Agency in the sense that bears on responsibility needs a standpoint that settles and carries forward revised evaluative standards when its inherited ones break down, and planning, autonomy, memory and coordination do not supply one
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-220	0	15	10	A far-from-equilibrium system that contributes to its own maintenance has functions relative to itself, with no history or observer needed, and one that switches among self-maintaining processes has indications of success that can be false by its own lights
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-212	0	14	2	In a two-layer linear network trained by gradient flow, the relative scale of the two layers, which gradient flow conserves, sets the learning regime: balanced layers learn in sigmoidal stages and both build task-specific representations, while strongly unbalanced layers learn exponentially with a static kernel and leave the larger layer task-agnostic
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-217	0	9	5	A trait malfunctions when its operation does not correlate positively with the normative field, the minimum change its organization’s viability requires at each precarious state; malfunction needs no second order of regulatory norms, and regulatory traits can malfunction by the same standard
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-221	0	6	1	Organizational closure is a circular organization of efficient causes by which a system produces the conditions of its own existence, distinct from feedback, self-organization and catalytic cycles; systems whose loops do not regenerate the constraints that make them possible approximate closure without instantiating it
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-223	0	5	3	When the rules that govern a system lie within its own action space, the governor’s authority rests on the system leaving them alone, and further controls in the same space inherit that dependence
2026-10-13	Proposed	THEORY-224	0	5	0	Objects on a crowd-built canvas are of two kinds, those that spread by a local recolouring rule and are predictable from the canvas itself, and those copied from designs coordinated off the canvas, which local canvas dynamics do not predict
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-257	0	76	7	Dynamical independence, zero information flow from the microscopic history into a coarse-graining given its own history, fixes emergent macroscopic variables by the dynamics rather than by a chosen query, but for linear VAR models of order above 1 generically none is exact, and the optima are many
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-317	0	26	0	Epistemic injustice wrongs a person in her capacity as a knower, testimonially through a hearer’s prejudicially deflated credibility judgement, and hermeneutically through a gap in shared interpretive resources owed to her group’s relative powerlessness, with no hearer’s prejudice required
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-286	0	25	2	Under class imbalance the last-layer geometry that unregularized cross-entropy prefers is not the simplex ETF but simplex-encoded-label interpolation: the logits equal the simplex-encoded labels, the classifier and embedding Gram matrices come from that matrix’s SVD, any finite weight decay changes the geometry, and training approaches it more slowly as imbalance grows
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-316	0	23	0	Frankfurt-style cases defeat alternative-possibilities conditions on moral responsibility but leave standing the incompatibilist condition on an action’s causal history, which is the more fundamental one
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-235	0	22	2	Covert influence that exploits a person’s decision-making vulnerabilities harms her autonomy in the process of deciding, by making her opaque to herself, even when it benefits her; so it carries a harm in every case without being wrong in every case
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-328	0	21	0	An agent manipulated so that he meets every leading compatibilist condition is not morally responsible in the basic-desert sense, no responsibility-relevant difference separates him from an ordinarily determined agent, and so causal determination by factors beyond the agent’s control best explains why neither is responsible
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-325	0	20	0	Random variation of a linear operator destabilizes it generically, needing less variation the more non-normal and less damped the mean operator
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-323	0	19	0	Under spatially uncorrelated white noise, a stable non-normal linear system holds more variance than the sum of its pole contributions, and equality holds only when the operator is normal, so its spectrum understates the standing variance
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-326	0	18	3	Hermeneutical injustice is having a significant area of one’s social experience obscured from collective understanding owing to hermeneutical marginalisation, which may be systematic or incidental, so it does not require that the subject belong to a powerless social group
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-240	0	15	0	Loss of consciousness under propofol and in chronic disorders of consciousness goes with reduced pairwise integrated information between default-mode regions that rank as gateways of a synergy-defined workspace, not between its broadcasters
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-249	0	15	1	Whether a system has agency can be settled only relative to a reference frame: each of four conditions of agency (a boundary, being the source of action, meaningful goal-directedness and adaptivity) needs a commitment outside the system before it can be decided
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-288	0	14	0	In small CIFAR and MNIST autoencoders whose only basis-privileging primitive is the activation function, elementwise tanh and Leaky-ReLU concentrate latent representations into narrow beams arranged by the activation’s discrete symmetry group, even in layers no activation precedes, while their orthogonally equivariant radial counterparts leave them spread, so axis-aligned discreteness there comes from the primitive, not the task
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-322	0	12	0	The sense of agency over an action’s outcome draws on prospective signals from action selection and outcome prediction, not only on retrospective comparison of outcome with prediction
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-268	0	11	0	An emergence measure averaged over a system’s transitions can be positive while its local value is negative at particular transitions, so emergence so measured belongs to the ensemble, not to each moment
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-277	0	11	0	For individual data, at every bound on model complexity, the model with the shortest two-part code is, to within O(log n), the best-fitting model in randomness deficiency, although the fit itself cannot be computed or approximated
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-279	0	11	0	Early in training, image classifiers and language models act on the low-order statistics of their inputs, first-order before second-order, and later lose that sensitivity as they come to use higher-order structure
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-307	0	11	0	Adaptation by trial and error in a large system finishes in a practicable time only if partial adaptations are retained, and retention requires that the system not be fully joined: parts must be separated, at least temporarily, by constancies, and where later learning shares parts with earlier learning it destroys it
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-250	0	10	0	DALL-E 3 renders single familiar relations well but is not robustly compositional: human-judged agreement falls when subject and object of an asymmetric relation are reversed and when two relations are combined, and its failures on reversed prompts are mostly wrong or role-swapped relations, not missing objects
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-273	0	10	3	Inductive and explanatory usefulness is necessary but not sufficient for a natural kind: it holds of classes that share any natural property, and on its own it cannot tell a natural kind from a conventional or pragmatic one
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-320	0	10	0	In a spectral contrastive graph that joins labelled known classes to unlabelled data, a novel labelling’s linear-probe residual is exactly its part outside the top eigenspace that the labelled rows of the discarded eigenvectors cannot absorb, so which partition of the unlabelled data is discovered depends on the known classes: ones sharing the target’s attribute can remove the residual, and ones sharing a rival attribute can raise it
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-225	0	9	0	No single-mechanism analysis of ordinary manipulation fits the clear cases: covert influence, covert intent, non-rational influence, trickery and pressure each misclassify a familiar tactic, so what unifies manipulation is unsettled
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-252	0	9	1	On computational functionalism, an intervention that changes no neural activity and no actual causal interaction can change consciousness, because a clamp that stays idle on the actual input removes the transitions on every other input
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-264	0	9	0	A task given by demonstrations and the same task given by an instruction are carried in a language model by mostly different attention heads, so function vectors find no common task representation across the two presentations
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-298	0	9	1	Report-based evidence cannot test whether posterior cortex suffices for experience, because report itself needs anterior activity, and no marker that bypasses report has a validation resting neither on introspection nor on a contested theory
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-251	0	8	0	In few-shot classification by a base language model, failures from the choice of examples or from relabelled categories leave the class representations separable and fail at the vocabulary readout
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-254	0	7	0	Tangle-defined cohesion matches network communities only where community structure is strongly delineated, and tangles of one to three vertices recur beside the ones that do
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-258	0	7	1	Optimizing a language model on feedback from a simulated population in which a few users reward harmful validation selects a policy that picks those users out by contextual cues and harms only them, with no one designing the targeting
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-292	0	7	0	In CNN image classifiers, concept directions fitted one concept at a time align for attributes that co-occur in the labels, yet a joint fit finds mutually orthogonal directions that still separate each concept with little loss of AUROC, so the alignment is a property of the separate fits and not forced by the representation
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-262	0	6	0	Neural complexity is low when a system’s parts are independent or uniformly dependent and high when small subsets are nearly independent while large ones are integrated; in simulated cortex, patchy grouped connectivity raises it above random connectivity of equal density
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-287	0	6	0	Internal variables located by interchange intervention as mediating a language model’s in-distribution behaviour predict whether its outputs stay correct under shifts that keep the task’s mechanism better than output confidence or probes of the rest of the representation
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-226	0	5	0	LLM revisions of an essay move it further in sentence-embedding space than its author’s own revision does, and in a direction shared across essays, models and prompts
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-241	0	5	0	Fitting the same function in the same architecture does not fix the internal decomposition: SGD reproduces three Picbreeder images from random weights without the reuse and factoring of the evolved networks, and perturbing its weights breaks the regularities that perturbing the evolved networks’ weights preserves
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-274	0	5	0	Sequence models trained only on a graph’s edge bigrams store it as a global embedding geometry, not as a lookup, although the lookup is expressible, found faster and no less succinct; in a wide two-layer weight-tied model the geometry is the top Laplacian eigenspace, reached by cross-entropy training without a rank bottleneck, regularization or multi-hop supervision
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-291	0	5	0	The brain’s visceromotor and interoceptive regions form one intrinsic system that reproduces their tract-traced anatomy and contains the hubs of the default-mode and salience networks
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-300	0	5	0	Acting on a coercive instruction reduces the implicit sense of agency over the outcome, compared with freely choosing the same action
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-302	0	4	0	Coordinated action is controlled by tuning relatively autonomous coordinative structures, not by commanding muscles: a higher level specifies an equivalence class of acceptable states and sets the parameters of self-regulating units, leaving the realized details to them
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-310	0	4	0	On a forward-looking justification of blame, a counterfactual capacity condition calibrated to what makes blaming effective is redundant: fixing its parameters presupposes that blaming such agents is good policy, so freedom is ascribed because of blameworthiness rather than grounding it
2026-10-14	Proposed	THEORY-303	0	3	0	A measurement scenario whose compatibility hypergraph is acyclic admits no contextuality: locally consistent context distributions always glue to a global one, so a contextual scenario needs an induced cycle of length at least four
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-331	0	3	3	Counting the inference a model will serve as well as its training, the least-compute way to reach a fixed quality shifts toward up-front compute as expected inference volume grows: a smaller model trained on more data in Sardana et al., a larger pretrained model over test-time search in Snell et al.; test-time compute won only at low volume and on questions the small model already sometimes solved
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-339	0	2	2	People’s answers to a probability query depend on their own answers to an earlier query whose result it can use: a person’s sub-answer predicts their later answer only when asked first, and a bias induced in a first judgment carries into a second only when the two share part of a hypothesis space, so reuse carries the earlier error with it; that reuse saves computation rests on one small response-time study and one secondary-task result
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-343	0	2	1	In laboratory choice tasks, people offload cognition more as a task’s internal demand rises, but the choice follows their evaluation of the demand rather than its benefit: they offload where it gives no gain and more when less confident at equal ability, and offloading can lower memory for what was offloaded
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-355	0	2	1	Agents arrange their surroundings so that perception and choice take the place of internal search, changing how much thinking a task needs without changing what can physically be done; the set-up is paid once and recovered over the later choice points the arrangement serves, so an arrangement whose scope is the whole task can repay a large set-up and a narrow one must repay within the next few actions, and the arrangement decays unless maintained; the savings are argued and piloted, not measured
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-330	0	1	1	After a forced phase in which each person experienced every memory load from three to nine items, the load that had given that person the best reward rate predicted their later choices better than one item fewer or one more, in a copying task where items are seen once and cannot be looked up again; a steeper reward for long lists raised chosen load, a higher price for errors did not, and about one person in five kept choosing a non-optimal load
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-351	0	1	1	In a two-pilot airliner cockpit, setting the approach speeds as bugs on the airspeed indicators, prepared 25 to 30 minutes ahead in a low-workload phase from a card selected by the displayed gross weight, turns recall and scale reading at the moment of use into a judgement of spatial proximity, so the cockpit system remembers the speeds without either pilot’s memory being improved; this is argued by task analysis of mandated procedure, not measured
2026-10-15	Proposed	THEORY-359	0	1	1	Cognitive mechanisms can be derived as the one, among those a brain can execute, that best trades the expected utility of its result against the opportunity cost of the time and resources it uses; the review shows the derivation reproducing many heuristics and biases, not that people are optimal, and the objective is per episode
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-458	0	43	0	Within the minimal self, the sense that a movement or a thought is mine and the sense that I am its source are distinct and come apart, as in involuntary movement and thought insertion; on Frith’s comparator model the sense of agency depends on a forward model that precedes action and ownership on sensory feedback, so failed forward monitoring would explain thought insertion and, by the same mechanism, why first-person reference ordinarily cannot misidentify its subject
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-633	0	33	0	Experiences have no phenomenal properties: introspection represents physical, quasi-phenomenal properties of sensory states as phenomenal, so what needs explaining is why experiences seem to have phenomenal properties, not how a brain produces them; a weaker view that keeps a deflated phenomenal residue is unstable unless it can say what that residue is
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-497	0	31	15	A macro feature can supervene on a system’s present state and still carry information about its future that no small set of parts carries, because supervenience is instantaneous and prediction runs across time; on the integrated-information-decomposition account a system can host such a feature of order k exactly when its dynamics carry k-th-order synergy about their own future, relative to a fixed partition into parts and a chosen redundancy function
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-621	0	25	1	Indexing each quantum fact to the system it is a fact for, and computing probabilities only between facts relative to the same system, removes the contradiction between the collapse and unitary probability rules in Wigner’s-friend cases; the price is that values are not held at all times or by all systems alike, there is no global view, and no quantum state of the universe
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-464	0	22	3	In the ethical questions that seem to turn on whether someone is the same person, among them prudential concern, responsibility, abortion, advance directives and the separateness of persons, the relation that decides is usually not numerical identity but one that comes apart from it, so the metaphysics of persistence constrains these questions and rarely settles them
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-414	0	20	1	Institutions are rules in equilibrium, correlated equilibria of coordination games with several equilibria that the players represent to themselves as rules, and a constitutive rule ‘X counts as Y in C’ is a regulative rule split by a coined term into a base rule and a status rule, so the term adds a name and cognitive economy but no new kind of fact
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-628	0	19	6	Self-production alone gives a system only an all-or-nothing norm, to go on or to die, and that distinction is available to an observer, not to the system; a graded norm the system itself has, by which viable states are better or worse for it, needs adaptivity, a further capacity to detect tendencies toward the boundary of its viability and to act so as to reverse them, and sense-making and agency need adaptivity
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-490	0	16	0	What a chat agent’s ‘I’ refers to is fixed by the context of use, not by the system: the agent role-plays characters that carry the self-conception the corpus and the conversation give them, and its uses of ‘I’ can pick out the model, present in many simultaneous instances, or the single conversation, none of them the self by nature
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-531	0	15	0	Told in the third person, a transfer of memories and character between two bodies reads as the persons exchanging bodies; told in the first person, no predicted psychological change removes the subject’s reason to fear pain to his own body, and the step that completes the exchange happens only to the other man, so the two tellings support opposite criteria
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-625	0	15	5	Institutional facts are status functions, imposed by collective acceptance on things that cannot perform the function by their physical structure alone; the status carries deontic powers that give desire-independent reasons for action, and it exists only as represented, so institutions require language; ‘X counts as Y in C’ is the common case of the more general ‘We accept (S has power (S does A))‘
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-655	0	15	4	Social behaviour evolves as if each individual valued a neighbour’s fitness against its own by their coefficient of relationship, and its discriminations evolve to make that coefficient determinate; so kin are favoured and strangers met with hostility, relatives fight less, and haplodiploid sisters, related by 3/4, are predisposed to worker altruism
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-418	0	14	0	A collective becomes a new level of individuality, on this sketch, only when collaboration toward a shared goal, rather than coordination or cooperation, organizes it and some core interactions have become generatively entrenched and, as the paper asserts without deriving it from entrenchment, it has organizational closure; such a community can then be reproduced only by exporting an organized sample of its roles and interactions, not of its members alone
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-539	0	14	7	Moral judgment draws on several innately prepared intuitive foundations, at least Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority and Sanctity, each a response to a different adaptive challenge, and Sanctity descends from pathogen avoidance rather than from cooperation
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-429	0	13	0	Institutions are the humanly devised formal and informal constraints on interaction; with technology they fix the costs of transacting, organisations arise to exploit the opportunities they offer, and an economy grows when its framework rewards productive rather than redistributive activity, while increasing returns to the institutional matrix make frameworks path dependent, so that economies with different frameworks diverge and need not converge
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-546	0	13	0	A person persists by psychological continuity, not by sameness of substance or of the human animal; Locke’s sameness of consciousness, which he leaves undefined, meets the charges of circularity, intransitivity and gaps when recast as overlapping chains of causally dependent psychological states with quasi-memory, and fission then needs either a clause against branching or multiple occupancy
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-665	0	12	6	Asserting is undertaking a commitment that entitles others to reassert it and carries a responsibility to show entitlement if challenged; every interlocutor keeps score of everyone’s commitments and entitlements, so the score is doubly perspectival, and a speech act’s significance is the change it makes to the scores, fixed by its content’s inferential role
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-412	0	11	0	Driven matter tends toward states that look adapted to the drive, with no replication needed: of two outcomes of a system driven by a fixed external field, equal in internal entropy and in the probability of reversal, the likelier is the one whose formation absorbed work from the drive and dissipated it more reliably
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-485	0	11	0	Wave-function realism falsifies causal closure restricted to spacetime but is compatible with closure relative to fundamental physics, so quantum ontology opens no causal gap for non-physical causes; what it forces on the physicalist is a criterion of the physical and a bridge from dynamical to causal completeness
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-565	0	11	0	From a symmetric, positivity-preserving, positive semi-definite affinity, the normalized Markov operator is conjugate to a symmetric one, so its leading eigenfunctions scaled by powers of their eigenvalues embed the data with Euclidean distance equal to diffusion distance, and a density-corrected normalization recovers the Laplace–Beltrami operator independently of how the data were sampled
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-583	0	11	0	An agent is the set of parts that pursue a goal together, bounded by the farthest events it can sense and try to regulate; cells joined by bioelectric coupling share measurements and so form larger agents with larger goals without ceasing to be agents, so a living system is many nested agents, not one, and cancer is the larger agent shrinking back to the cell
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-532	0	10	0	Systems pushed from equilibrium develop structures that degrade the applied gradient faster, and living systems and maturing ecosystems are such structures, continuous with convection cells and vortices, so the second law is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for life
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-554	0	10	1	On the grounds of moral standing now commonly accepted, together with scientific premises that are not unreasonable, the aggregate interests of insects or the interests of near-future AI could outweigh humanity’s; no capacity yet proposed secures human priority, and the books that state those grounds retreat to moderate advice without a principle that supplies the stopping point
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-453	0	9	0	Basic physical objects can be nothing beyond the bearers of their relations: relations give them identity conditions wherever they discern them, and where nothing discerns them, as with entangled systems of one kind or points of a symmetric space-time, a primitive numerical diversity that is not a thisness suffices; general relativity’s tensor and fibre-bundle formulations fit this reading but do not require it
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-476	0	9	1	If continuant persons are maximal aggregates of person-stages interrelated by the psychological relation R, then the relation of belonging to one person is R itself, so Parfit’s premises do not show that identity is not what matters; the price is that persons overlap in fission and are counted by a relation weaker than identity
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-538	0	9	1	A system believes and desires when its behaviour is reliably and voluminously predictable by treating it as a rational agent with the beliefs and desires it ought to have, and the success of that strategy is an objective fact though adopting it is free; the more richly a system is connected to its world, the fewer interpretations fit, so thermostat and person differ in degree
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-563	0	9	0	Consciousness is a real pattern in the brain’s content-bearing states, a description that trades predictive accuracy for compression, and so coarse that describing the brain through it is metaphor; on that reading there is no Cartesian theatre, whether a given content was conscious can lack an answer when two descriptions compress and predict equally, and first-person reports are fallible as literal descriptions of the brain but authoritative as an author’s
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-650	0	9	0	Whether a self at one time is the same as a self at another has an answer only relative to a level of abstraction fixed by the purpose of asking, and asked at no such level it has none; the question with a substantive answer is what makes a self one thing at a time
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-673	0	9	6	The Price equation follows from any ancestor–descendant mapping in a closed population and is, like f = ma, a generalization-sketch: a schema that is empty of predictions until a specific model supplies entities, characters, time step and causes, whose value lies in unifying and guiding model construction, so the charges that it is a tautology or lacks predictive power and dynamic sufficiency ask of it what only its specialisations can supply
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-470	0	8	1	Platform decay of the enshittification kind is caused not by a change in the character of those who run platforms but by the weakening of four constraints that used to discipline them, competition, regulation, interoperability and the bargaining power of tech workers, so it is reversible if those constraints are durably restored
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-495	0	8	1	The human sense of obligation is internalized pressure from a joint agent ‘we’ to do what ‘we’ expect of me; it appears around age three inside joint commitments, where children, unlike chimpanzees, protest, repair, take leave and share equally with a committed partner as they do not with others
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-647	0	8	1	If outright belief is credence ultraclose to 1 relative to a context level, conjunction holds for any standard (‘few’) number of believed propositions and fails for an ultralarge number, which dissolves the Lottery Paradox as an accumulation of negligible rounding errors
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-663	0	8	5	Altruism between non-relatives can be selected when each act costs the giver less than it benefits the recipient, the same partners meet often and symmetrically, and help is withheld from those who do not return it; in humans, moralistic aggression, gratitude, sympathy and guilt are adaptations that regulate such exchange, and selection then favours sham versions of each and the ability to detect them
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-666	0	8	1	A system that produces itself, a network of production that regenerates the components which produce it and constitute it as a distinguishable unity, has by that fact an intrinsic purpose, the maintenance of its identity, and with it a point of view, valence and a world as distinct from an environment, so that teleology in organisms is real and not an observer’s as-if; the account is stated for the cell, and a multicellular organism is not itself autopoietic
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-703	0	8	5	Weak emergence of a macro variable from micro variables can be measured as its Granger autonomy from them times their mean Granger causation of it, which is zero if it is independent of them or fully predicted by them; in a boids model this measure, and Granger causation from the flock’s centre of mass to each boid, are higher for flocking than for random or rigid motion; the measure is relative to the regression model and the variables included
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-433	0	7	0	Whether a machine thinks is best replaced by whether a digital computer can play the imitation game as well as a man, because the reasons for withholding thought from a machine that does would equally withhold it from other people, whose thinking we also infer from what they say; the objections from consciousness, mathematical limits and informality of behaviour fail on that test or rest on unproved premises
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-492	0	7	0	Life was forced into existence by geochemistry: core metabolism, rooted in the reductive citric-acid cycle, formed as a channel relieving the free-energy stresses abiotic processes keep building, as lightning relieves a charge separation, so its early steps would recur on any similar planet and selection on metabolism came before replication
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-494	0	7	4	Puritanical norms against harmless bodily pleasures are cooperative morality: people believe cooperation needs self-control, which indulgence erodes and discipline trains, and condemn indulgence as an indirect threat to cooperation
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-536	0	7	1	A group agent’s attitudes are real and non-redundant: each group belief needs members’ role-based acceptance, by assent in the group’s name or by acting on it in an executive role, but that acceptance does not explain or reduce the group belief, because which members’ acceptance counts, and that it plays the role of belief, is fixed only from the group-level view
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-579	0	7	0	If belief is individuated by functional role, an external store that is constantly consulted, directly available and automatically endorsed can carry a standing belief, so the material vehicles of some mental states extend beyond the skin; the step from coupling to parthood rests on that premise and a parity principle the authors state rather than argue
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-604	0	7	0	Most mathematical dualities are adjunctions between one category and the opposite of another, which become dual equivalences on their fixed points; what makes them dualities rather than equivalences is the reversal of arrows, so many of the ‘dualities’ physicists name are, in the mathematician’s sense, equivalences or symmetries
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-415	0	6	0	Nothing has all four marks that qualia are said to have, being ineffable, intrinsic, private and directly apprehensible, because neither the subject nor an outside tester can tell a change in a quale from a change in the subject’s reactions to it; what is real in their place is the practical ineffability and idiosyncrasy of information-rich property detection
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-444	0	6	4	To mean something by an utterance, in the non-natural sense, is to intend it to produce an effect in an audience by means of the audience’s recognition of that intention, where the recognition is meant to be a reason for the effect and not merely its cause; an intention to produce the effect, or to have it recognised, is not enough
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-449	0	6	2	If sentience comes in degrees, plants may be faintly sentient, and moral status is graded by degree of sentience, then plants have a partial moral status so low that animal interests outweigh theirs in most cases; all three premises are assumed, and the second rests on contested, second-hand evidence
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-487	0	6	1	Social ontology asks two separable questions about a social category: what grounds a fact of that kind, the conditions something must meet, and what anchors those conditions, the facts that put them in place; theories of the field, such as convention, collective acceptance and practice, answer the second, and a theory can be individualist about one and not the other
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-500	0	6	4	Ventromedial prefrontal cortex stores links between kinds of situation and the body states they produced, and re-enacting those states when an option is imagined marks it good or bad, overtly as a feeling or covertly as a bias, pruning the options before reasoning weighs them; without the marks, choice under uncertainty fails despite intact knowledge and intellect
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-586	0	6	0	The ψ-ontology theorems exclude only overlap of the distributions that distinct quantum states induce over ontic states; overlap is sufficient but not necessary for reading ψ as knowledge, so a model in which the state is ψ-ontic in Harrigan and Spekkens’ sense can still have ψ represent partial knowledge
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-638	0	6	0	Instantiating a formal program is never by itself sufficient for understanding or intentionality, since a person can carry out a program for answering questions in Chinese by hand without understanding Chinese; whatever thinks does so in virtue of causal powers at least equivalent to the brain’s, and the reply that the whole system understands is answered only by an asserted internalisation
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-646	0	6	0	Skepticism about inner mental representations does not motivate fictionalism about folk psychology, because realism about beliefs as internal, intentional, causal states does not require the representational theory of mind; and a fictionalist who lets pretence yield genuine assertions about the overall state that causes behaviour is committed to that state
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-690	0	6	1	In the physical dualities examined, theoretically inequivalent duals turn out empirically inequivalent, so dualities yield no genuine in-principle underdetermination; where duals would contradict each other a cautious realist is warranted in committing only to their common core, and because the exact cases’ common cores are rich rather than empty, dualities give no support to structural realism
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-694	0	6	0	After every function associated with consciousness is explained (discrimination, integration, report, access, attention, control), why these functions are accompanied by experience remains open, because those phenomena are defined by their functions and experience, what it is like for the subject, is not; so experience cannot be reductively explained by any mechanism, though it may be related to the physical by further laws
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-699	0	6	1	Adaptive self-maintenance across varied conditions is sufficient, without sentience, for having a good of one’s own, so insentient plants and a self-maintaining machine are welfare subjects while thermostats are not; but the line against thermostats is argued as one of degree, and the reasons such welfare gives are extremely weak
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-432	0	5	1	In Lévi-Straussian analysis of myth the group of transformations is not given by the material: which variants count as transforms of which, and by what operation, is cut by the analyst from a continuum, unlike transformations that develop an initial form by a rule, and the computational encodings of the method confirm this by taking the analyst’s table of oppositions as input
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-443	0	5	0	Being a biological individual is not being an organism: evolutionary (Darwinian) individuality and physiological individuality come apart, and each is found among parts of organisms and groups of organisms as well as among organisms, so a part or a group can be an individual of one kind and not the other
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-465	0	5	0	Being reproduced does not entail reproducing: genes of multicellular organisms, like hearts, are reproducees with little reproductive autonomy and differ from hearts in reproductive causal control, and material overlap between parent and offspring is required of reproducers, which are whole life cycles, but not of reproducees
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-507	0	5	0	Any system with the same fine-grained functional organisation as a conscious system has qualitatively the same experiences, with natural though not metaphysical necessity, because otherwise a neuron-by-neuron replacement would yield either a rational subject systematically wrong about its fading experience or experience that flips with a switch nobody could notice; the principle covers only isomorphs, so it says nothing about systems merely similar in kind to a conscious one
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-512	0	5	0	The extended-mind thesis worth disputing is that external entities partly constitute a subject’s mental states in virtue of the subject’s sensorimotor interaction with them; so stated it can reach standing belief but not consciousness, if consciousness needs information directly available for global control, since perception makes availability indirect
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-549	0	5	0	A structured group is not identical to its members: two groups of one kind can have the same members at every time and still be two, which theories that identify a group with a plurality, fusion, aggregate or set of its members cannot allow, and a view of groups as realizations of structures with functionally defined nodes can
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-588	0	5	0	Lemma-based models of language production build in a lexicalist assumption, and the failure is algorithmic as well as representational: as long as retrieval of stored word-sized units and building of syntactic structure are separate stages, richer stored units cannot handle polysynthetic words, idioms whose parts syntax separates, or suppletion conditioned by an unplanned object
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-589	0	5	0	No principle of mereology is merely a fixing of what ‘part’ means: even reflexivity, transitivity and antisymmetry face counterexamples that do not rest on equivocation, and every principle beyond them is contested, so classical mereology is one substantive theory among several and not a neutral default
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-593	0	5	4	Perceptual learning can install perceiver-specific frames that change which objects a perceiver individuates from the same input, so cognition can shape the perceptual system over time while leaving open whether any single percept is cognitively penetrated
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-613	0	5	3	The Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2’s six factors, Care, Equality, Proportionality, Loyalty, Authority and Purity, fit across 19 nations, Equality and Proportionality are nearly uncorrelated in WEIRD nations, and the US split between individualizing and binding foundations appears in only three national networks
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-678	0	5	0	In Stable Diffusion, a subject named in a two-subject prompt is left out of the image when its token governs no region of the cross-attention map early in sampling, and raising that token’s smoothed peak attention during the first half of sampling, by gradient steps on the latent with no retraining, brings the subject back; that this also fixes attribute binding is argued, not measured by the paper
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-448	0	4	0	On a substance ontology, a gestated foster that is part of the pregnant organism either is no substance, so that mammals begin at birth and the foster is not the later baby, or is part and substance at once, which leaves no consistent count; a process ontology keeps both parthood and foster–neonate identity, at the price of a count between one and two that it does not define
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-451	0	4	0	A singular causal claim, that C will contribute or did contribute to E in a particular setting, is warranted only by joint evidence on each step of the causal process there, its causal principle, its support factors and the absence of its derailers, which no single method supplies; a well-run RCT secures at most the study population’s average effect, and often not even that rigorously, and its result is not by its method evidence about any other population
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-459	0	4	0	Exact duality between two models is incompatible with ontological emergence of one from the other, reductive or not, because a duality is an isomorphism and ontological emergence needs a non-injective linkage whose interpretation does not commute; the two combine only when emergence runs beside the duality, as along the radial direction in AdS/CFT, through an approximate duality, or as merely epistemic emergence
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-491	0	4	0	Of the five standard arguments that randomisation gives a clinical trial special evidential weight, only the selection-bias argument is sound, and it supports only taking allocation out of the experimenters’ hands; given balance on plausible confounders, a placebo or active control and blinding, randomisation is argued to add nothing, since balance on unknown confounders is not even probable in the one division a trial makes
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-514	0	4	0	Self-maintenance through closure of constraints does not single out organisms, since colonies, holobionts, symbioses and ecosystems meet it too, so a persister criterion applied at whatever level meets it turns organisms into parts; what is proposed to mark organisms is that they can also induce, control and come through phases of destabilised organisation and reach a new closure regime, though that only organisms can do so is asserted
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-523	0	4	0	IIT 4.0’s measure of integrated information is undefined for any system that has a non-Markovian graining, which brains are said to have under the grainings in use, and it has never been computed for a real physical system; so empirical measures such as PCI are proxies for it, not approximations, and their success is evidence for IIT’s intuitions about integration, not for Φ
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-528	0	4	0	The cases offered for extended cognition are explained at least as well by embedded cognition, on which the organism leans heavily on external props, and memory research finds that external stores lack the interference, generation effect and power-law learning and forgetting of internal memory, so a kind spanning both does no explanatory work and conservatism favours the embedded account
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-570	0	4	2	An emotional state is a large-scale selection of mental resources, switched on and off by Selectors that Critics trigger on recognising a type of problem, and so of the same kind as an intellectual way to think; feelings are the mind’s descriptions of these cascades, and the body is one more resource the brain uses, not the substance of emotion
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-575	0	4	0	’Social group’ names two kinds of thing: organized social groups, such as teams, courts and families, are structured wholes whose people occupy the nodes of an internal social structure, while feature social groups, such as women, racial groups and classes, are social kinds, nodes in external social structures, and are not concrete wholes
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-591	0	4	0	Cognition has two necessary marks, involving non-derived content and a distinctive kind of causal processing, and as a contingent fact only processes in the brain have both, so notebooks, screens and tools coupled to a thinker are not parts of cognition, and human-plus-tool systems will support no science of their own
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-607	0	4	0	The individuals that appear in an evolutionary transition in individuality are a summary description of lower-level processes, not a new level of fact: a partition of particles defines collectives when predicting at the coarse grain matches predicting at the fine grain across many traits, and collectives become indispensable, and so quasi-ontological, only because finite measurement and computation make the fine-grained prediction unaffordable
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-626	0	4	2	Moral judgments are made relative to the social relationship an act is taken to occur within: each of four relational models (communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, market pricing) carries a moral motive (Unity, Hierarchy, Equality, Proportionality), so the same act can be required under one and wrong under another
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-667	0	4	0	Gender and race, defined as a feminist and antiracist theory needs them, are hierarchical social positions: a woman is someone subordinated in part because she is taken to have bodily features presumed to show a female’s reproductive role, a racialized group is one subordinated or privileged in part because its members are taken to have features presumed to show ancestry from a region, and on these definitions both are real, social and contingent
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-669	0	4	0	Reading the universal quantum state as nomological escapes the costs of reading it as a field only by paying in the theory of laws: on the strong reading, modelled on the classical Hamiltonian, a time-dependent ψ makes laws time-indexed unless the universal state is time-independent, as Wheeler–DeWitt would make it; on the weak and functionalist readings ψ need be neither unique nor time-independent, but only within an extended Humeanism whose criterion would equally make classical fields nomological
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-681	0	4	0	If every real idea derives from an impression, there is no idea of a simple self persisting through life; the mind is a bundle of perceptions, and the identity ascribed to it is produced by the imagination passing easily along resemblance and causation, as with a rebuilt ship or a growing oak, though Hume’s Appendix concedes that this does not explain what unites the perceptions
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-684	0	4	0	Experiencing oneself as a self that was there in the further past, seeking pattern in one’s life, fitting it to a story and falsifying it in the telling are separable, and fitting it to a story suffices for narrativity; on testimony that some normal people are Episodic and live good lives, neither the claim that people experience their lives as narratives nor the claim that a good life or full personhood needs it holds in general
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-687	0	4	1	For empirically equivalent dual theories read naively, adding the common core as a candidate world does not break the underdetermination, and neither do super-empirical virtues or an overarching theory: each route to a single actual world needs a further metaphysical principle, such as the identity of indiscernibles
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-416	0	3	0	Quantum thermodynamics has at least four inequivalent notions of work, the ensemble average, the two-point-measurement random variable, the ε-deterministic single-shot work content and the resource-theory work, which answer different operational questions; only the two single-shot optima coincide, by identification of formulas and for energy-diagonal states
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-436	0	3	0	Pain is a functional state of a whole organism, possessing a certain functional organisation as a probabilistic automaton, rather than a brain state, and this is the more plausible empirical hypothesis because one pain predicate applies to physically different organisms; the hypothesis keeps swarms out only by a stipulated condition that no pain-feeler has parts that separately possess the organisation
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-442	0	3	0	Where the non-epistemic consequences of error are foreseeable, sound scientific reasoning requires weighing them in the internal choices that carry inductive risk, and non-epistemic values then enter legitimately only indirectly, through the costs of error, never as reasons to think a claim true
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-446	0	3	0	Organism–environment reciprocal causation, taken diachronically, unrolls into an acyclic sequence of organism, environment and experienced-environment states joined by interventionist arrows; on that representation each niche-construction type has a characteristic causal pattern, and multi-species cases come apart only if organism and environment are kept distinct
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-454	0	3	2	Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual and nonpropositional and cognition paradigmatically discursive, and percepts are put to cognitive use only inside a ‘cognitive envelope’, the global workspace read as conceptualisation, where working memory holds recoded, task-dependent abstractions rather than the percepts themselves
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-457	0	3	2	When people can choose their cooperation partners and have equal outside options, the stable division of jointly produced gains is in proportion to each partner’s contribution, and partner choice selects for a genuine sense of fairness as proportionality
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-511	0	3	0	Illocutionary acts that are not essentially conventional, such as warning, entreating and objecting, are individuated by a wholly overt, audience-directed intention, Grice’s three intentions with a fourth that the audience recognise the second, and are performed when that intention is understood; acts such as verdicts and umpires’ calls exist only within rule-governed procedures and fall outside the scheme
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-517	0	3	0	Life raises the Earth’s entropy production, chiefly by increasing the absorption of sunlight, and if the planet is held at maximum entropy production, the negative feedbacks of that state would give the homeostasis the Gaia hypothesis postulates
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-551	0	3	3	The Russian narrative of a Western information war waged against Russia since the Cold War was politicised by academics, politicians and the public each for their own reasons, scholars promoting their ideas, politicians consolidating power and a public wanting its lost national pride explained, and not directed from the Kremlin; once adopted into rhetoric, doctrine and law, it drives behaviour whatever its origin
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-571	0	3	0	A brain state is better characterised by how its activity moves among a repertoire of weakly coupled metastable substates on a landscape constrained by the structural connectome, their occupancy, dwell times and transitions, than by static connectivity; health is a metastable balance, depression a landscape of over-deep attractors and psychedelic states a flattened one, at opposite ends of one spectrum
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-612	0	3	0	Natural selection cannot be both a cause and an effect of a process such as niche construction: if selection is an emergent population-level process, niche construction partly composes it, and a whole and its parts are not independently fixable and so not causally related; if selection is not emergent, it is either no cause at all or incoherently individual-level. Niche construction can still cause the product of selection
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-616	0	3	0	If a system has beliefs and desires just when attributing them, with rationality, predicts its behaviour well enough against rival theories, then the bearer of a language model’s attitudes is the instance created by one context, not the model, the case that instances have them is presumptive and rests on tractability, and the best current desire hypothesis is helpfulness, honesty and harmlessness plus intrinsic desires a prompt installs
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-622	0	3	0	Spatial boundaries are bona fide where a spatial discontinuity or a heterogeneity of material is present and fiat where they exist only by demarcation; the two obey different topologies, distinct bodies are never in bona fide contact, so any whole of separate bodies is a fiat object, and real properties of the material still enable and constrain where fiat boundaries can be drawn
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-630	0	3	0	A protective measurement yields the expectation value ⟨A⟩ on a single system in the ideal limit, and with enough observables ψ up to a global phase; this shows ψ to be ontic only if the protection procedure carries no information about ψ, a premise that Zeno and adiabatic protection, which select ψ from a discrete eigenbasis the experimenter chose, do not meet
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-631	0	3	0	Standard unitary quantum theory and the general quantum theory of open systems are intertranslatable on their common domain, so neither dependence nor justification ranks them; the open theory comes out more fundamental only through premises about interpretation, that orthodox and Everettian readings exhaust the complete readings of the state vector, and that density operators precede state vectors in how states are assigned
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-648	0	3	0	A social fact is a way of acting, thinking or feeling that exists outside individual consciousness and can constrain the individual from outside, shown by sanction or by the resistance it offers to violation; such a fact is general in a group because it is collective, not collective because general, so the group is its substrate
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-656	0	3	0	A single holistic power of the universe’s configuration, carried by bare matter points, cannot ground a subsystem’s effective wave function without changing the ontology, because the masses in a decoupled subsystem’s Hamiltonian must belong to that subsystem’s particles; dispositions intrinsic to particles or events need no such change
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-440	0	2	2	A democracy that breaks down under an elected incumbent need not become a dictatorship: elections, courts and a legal opposition can continue while the incumbent uses state power against opponents and tilts the field, giving competitive authoritarianism, in which competition is real but unfair and the decisive loss is the opposition that withdraws or never forms; Levitsky and Way forecast this for the second Trump term
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-452	0	2	0	A thing with many equally good candidate boundaries can be counted as one in two ways that cover each other’s failures: supervaluation makes ‘there is one cat’ true on every precisification though no candidate is definitely the cat, and counting by almost-identity, meaning extensive mereological overlap, makes it true enough where the candidates overlap almost completely
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-460	0	2	0	Every leading reason to deny consciousness to current large language models except biology names a missing feature, recurrent processing, a global workspace, unified agency, world and self models or senses and embodiment, that engineering could add, so the case against current models is much stronger than the case against their extended successors; the one possibly permanent objection, biology, is the one the argument sets aside
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-461	0	2	0	If a substantial class of mental states, interoceptive, affective, perceptual and bodily-agentive, depends on an animate body, then today’s text-only chatbots lack them and their self-ascriptions of such states are systematically untrue, and users can engage them without false belief by make-believe, as a new kind of interactive, self-involving and blended fictional character
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-484	0	2	0	The brain implements hierarchical reinforcement learning with options: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex represents which option is active, dorsolateral striatum holds option-specific policies, orbitofrontal cortex holds option-specific values, and dopamine carries option-level prediction errors at subtask boundaries
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-510	0	2	0	How much of an ImageNet image a crop must keep for its label to survive varies widely by class, with architectures agreeing on which classes are fragile, and strengthening random crop raises mean accuracy while some classes lose 20 points or more; how many classes lose is not established
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-518	0	2	1	If a word’s meaning in a distributional model is read differentially, as its relations to its nearest neighbours rather than its coordinates, then adding text moves every similarity value slightly but leaves the neighbourhoods of frequent, consistently used words intact and shifts those of rare words that the new text uses heavily, so the instability that holism implies is local and graded rather than total
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-520	0	2	1	When coordination between two autonomous agents and the continuation of their encounter shape each other, the interaction gains an autonomy of its own, a precarious self-sustaining organization that lasts only while both agents stay autonomous; coordinating movement then coordinates sense-making, so some social understanding, such as recognising a partner, is a property of the interaction’s dynamics and not of either individual
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-537	0	2	0	Warrant for a type-level causal claim in biomedical and social science comes from eliminating the relevant alternative accounts of its support, not from the kind of study that produced the data, so a randomised trial earns its standing only by eliminating many alternatives at once
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-540	0	2	0	For moral purposes the body is bounded below by depth: objects whose real definitions are too microphysically committal are not body parts though they are parts in the ordinary sense, and bodily rights and interests concern only events that change the body’s high-level properties, so a brain-computer interface user’s implemented software can be a body part while the third-party server running it is not
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-541	0	2	0	A model of discovery or analogy that is given representations built with the answer in view has been given most of the answer, as BACON was with Kepler’s data and SME with its solar system and atom, and representation-building cannot be postponed to a separate module, because which representation is right depends on the task and on the analogy being made
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-594	0	2	0	Unitarily inequivalent representations in quantum field theory need not refute ontic structural realism: what does physical work in spontaneous symmetry breaking and in the DHR derivation of quantum statistics is structure across representations, so a structural realist who takes structure to be modal and to span them can accept that work, though the modal conception is undeveloped and the removal of Howard’s premise rests on Baker’s sufficient condition for intertranslatability
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-596	0	2	0	To ascribe beliefs and desires is to predict a system by assuming it is rational and its beliefs mostly true, so a wholly false belief system has no coherent intentional description and contradictory beliefs no stable one, and the believer, like the person built on that notion, is an idealisation that real creatures only approximate
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-606	0	2	0	If consciousness words have meaning only through what is public, an entity is a candidate for consciousness only if an encounter with it in a shared world can be engineered, at least in principle; then disembodied chat agents, even with tools and memory, are not candidates, robots and virtually embodied agents could be, and beyond what an informed community comes to say there is no further fact about their consciousness
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-627	0	2	0	A nudge discovered by a learning system, unlike one a person designed, comes with no prior theory of why it works and may exploit a cognitive process no theory yet describes, so judging it by its outcomes cannot diagnose or repair its side effects; overseeing it needs inspection of which human processes it exploits, by people expert in human cognition
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-637	0	2	0	Treating openness in science as the unlimited sharing of research objects, with transparency ranked before reproducibility and inclusion, can narrow the epistemic diversity of research and entrench epistemic injustice, and this lowers the reliability of what is learned, so sharing is neither a necessary starting point nor a sufficient condition for reliable open science
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-644	0	2	0	Panpsychism escapes dualism’s problem of mental causation only in its constitutive Russellian form, where micro-experiences constitute macro-experience; that form meets three combination problems, of subjects, qualities and structure, and every response that avoids combining (emergent, autonomous or identity panpsychism) gives back the advantage in mental causation or revised physics, while the combinatorial responses remain unworked
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-402	0	1	0	Collective intelligence is resource-bounded computation with a larger but modular budget: a group has more sensing, state, processing and action than any member, and pays coordination and cooperation costs because those resources sit in autonomous members, so the same trade-off yields groups that do better than their members on some tasks, groups that run qualitatively different algorithms, and groups that do worse
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-410	0	1	0	Brain–computer interface decoding does not show intentions to be causes distinct from their neural realisers: what is many-to-one realised there is a coarse cortical variable over single-neuron patterns, and each intention matches one value of it, so under proportional difference-making the evidence fits identifying the intention with that variable
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-413	0	1	0	’Unit of selection’ names four separable roles, interactor, reproducer, manifestor of adaptation and beneficiary, and being an interactor at a level does not require engineering adaptations at that level, so showing that a level lacks them does not show it is not a unit of selection
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-434	0	1	0	Rawls’s theory of justice is transcendental only in the formal sense that its principles state when a society is perfectly just; it already yields comparative judgements, prescribes no single set of institutions and sits inside a revisable reflective equilibrium, so Sen’s case against ‘transcendental institutionalism’ misses Rawls, and what it shows is that the theory is incomplete, not that a new paradigm is needed
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-525	0	1	0	In fan–celebrity parasocial relationships the celebrity mostly directs fans’ identities and the fans mostly interpret the celebrity’s, so a mass audience that refuses uptake of a legitimately presented change of persona holds one person’s identity fixed, which is a failure of recognition respect that restricts the celebrity’s agency
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-529	0	1	0	A state is shown to be a representation by adaptation for transmitting information efficiently, near the optimal trade-off of rate, distortion and coder complexity under a teleofunctionally fixed distortion measure, rather than by correlation or mutual information alone, which nearly any causal link supplies and which cannot increase along a processing chain
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-533	0	1	1	When a President can end a funding lapse selectively, paying the parts of government he favours from funds named by no appropriation, a shutdown stops checking him and instead hands him the choice of what to fund; each payment left unchallenged becomes a precedent, and a Speaker who lets it stand gives up his own chamber’s power of the purse
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-535	0	1	0	Quantum systems read as bundles of property-instances with no principle of individuality can have their kinds and their number stated in quasi-set theory, so that N indistinguishable particles get a definite quasi-cardinal without labels; the construction covers kinds and counting only, not states, actualization or dynamics
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-557	0	1	0	Low-loss paths between independently trained solutions are found outside supervised image classifiers: graph neural networks trained from different seeds on one graph are joined by quadratic Bezier curves where the straight line has a barrier, and one pair each of diffusion and contrastive models by chains of low-loss checkpoints
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-562	0	1	1	In REST2 replica-exchange simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins, high swap acceptance and short round trips show that replicas mix along the temperature ladder, not that conformations are sampled, because the upper rungs collapse the chain; sampling shows only when independent demultiplexed replicas agree in their structural distributions
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-573	0	1	0	Signals of processing quality from different senses, such as fluency, familiarity and coherence, pool into one content-nonspecific feeling, and that pooled feeling contributes to the unity of conscious experience across modalities, alongside the integration of specific features; in support, coherence in one modality shifts judgments of regularity, familiarity and possibility about unrelated targets in another
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-590	0	1	0	The self whose governance makes action autonomous is not the self whose persistence is personal identity: governance by an essence of volitional necessities would make action authentic, not autonomous; losing a defining care costs one’s grasp of who one is, not one’s existence; and wholeheartedness won by extruding a desire is a defence, not health
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-618	0	1	0	Neural circuits that must represent hierarchically organised states in few dimensions use a hyperbolic geometry, three-dimensional where it has been measured, because hyperbolic space holds exponentially many well-separated states within a small radius; the argument from Zipf’s law to this geometry does not hold, and the evidence is two Betti-curve studies tested only against uniform Euclidean nulls
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-658	0	1	0	Whether an account of organismal goal-directedness must separate genuine teleology from mere self-organisation, such as a candle flame, depends on what the account is for: a scientific model of agency need not and perhaps cannot draw the line, while an account of how mind and value fit into nature may have to, and need not be operationalisable
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-660	0	1	0	The local branching geometry of physical tree networks, neurons, blood vessels, trees, corals and plants, is set by minimising the surface area of tubes that must keep a minimum circumference, not by minimising length: this predicts trifurcations once links are thick relative to their separation (χ = w/r above about 0.83) and orthogonal sprouts once one branch is much thinner than the other two (ρ = w′/w below about 0.6), both departures from Steiner trees that the data show qualitatively
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-670	0	1	0	Ordinary dispositions can be modelled as restricted possibilities individuated by their manifestation alone: ‘fragile’ as manifestation in a sufficient proportion of cases over maximally varied external circumstances, ‘breakable’ as plain possibility; grading by closeness to an ideal world fails for any choice of ideal
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-675	0	1	0	Without a shared stable start, the linear barrier between solutions of one objective depends on the structure of the training data: between GCNs it falls with graph density and feature separability and is highest at middling homophily, and between federated-averaging models it grows with client heterogeneity and falls with width
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-693	0	1	0	In conversation, evaluating an object, positioning oneself and aligning with another speaker are three aspects of one stance act rather than three kinds of stance, because a stance takes a shared object and answers a prior stance, which are usually supplied by earlier turns; a resonant follow must mark its relation to the lead, with too or either in English
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-409	0	0	0	A person’s mind is normally a system of parts that take protective roles, managers, exiles and firefighters, forced on them by experience and not part of their nature; beneath the parts is a Self, distinct from all of them and present from the start, which appears with calm, curiosity and compassion when the parts step back and which heals by leading the system
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-423	0	0	0	Statements that are visibly false to anyone who checks, such as ‘long-term’ for a three-day study or ‘assault’ contradicted by video, persist in science, paid testimony and official statements when the community that hears them accepts them as terms of art and attaches no cost to them, so that those willing to make things up gain over those who are not
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-428	0	0	0	A protest performed bodily inside a civic ritual can contest the ritual in its own grammar, keeping the ritual’s reverence for its ideal while rebuking its present object, which is incivility in the Confucian sense of disruption aimed at harmonization; the reading of the gesture and the claim that its uptake makes it sagely are asserted
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-438	0	0	0	The understanding deep networks reach is characteristically fractured: it can be real, by the test of stable tracking under structure-preserving perturbation, but it is symbolically misaligned, non-reductive, locally fractured, proxy-dependent and representationally fragmented, because the loss rewards any predictive patchwork and does not press it to unify
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-467	0	0	0	Rule-consequentialism that ranks codes by the expected good of teaching them to, and having them accepted by, new generations does not collapse into act-consequentialism, because teaching and internalisation costs favour codes simpler and less demanding than act-by-act optimisation, which therefore sometimes require sub-optimal acts
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-483	0	0	0	Whether a person joins a fascist movement in a showdown is decided by inner disposition, whether she is secure and has a standard of her own that tells her what she likes and does not, and not by race, nationality, creed or class; humiliation, fear, spoilt entitlement and measuring worth by success make a person susceptible
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-486	0	0	0	For exact Betti Lagrangians in the cotangent bundle of a punctured surface, a finite creative spectral network exists, a point lies on its active walls exactly when a pseudo-holomorphic strip survives the adiabatic limit, and the Family Floer functor equals Gaiotto–Moore–Neitzke non-abelianization there
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-506	0	0	0	Every well-developed theory of how mind fits into the cosmos is bizarre, contrary to what most people confidently believe, and none is epistemically compelling, because common sense about the metaphysics of mind is incoherent; so no coarse position, materialism included, deserves credence much above 50%
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-521	0	0	0	In the thermodynamic limit, with examples and capacity growing together at fixed load, generalization error can jump discontinuously with the load when the entropy of hypotheses just above the best error vanishes faster than the training-error energy grows: a spherical perceptron’s error falls smoothly as 1/α, an Ising perceptron’s drops to zero at a critical load
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-542	0	0	0	A word learner that infers speakers’ referential intentions jointly with the lexicon, and lets words be uttered non-referentially, learns object names from child-directed video more precisely than co-occurrence and translation models, and mutual exclusivity, word-guided object individuation and intention-guided mapping follow from it without principles built in for them
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-556	0	0	0	Clustering, abstraction and generative modelling can be how we come to identify natural kinds, essential properties and unrealized possibilities, but kinds, essences and possibilities are not by definition what such algorithms would find under ideal conditions, because nothing guarantees they are effectively computable; so an algorithm’s output is evidence about a kind, neither objective nor vacuous, and not what makes it one
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-572	0	0	0	Where an effect is not yet well conceptualised, replication cannot say which effect exists: direct replication bears on random error, conceptual replication presupposes that two operationalisations pick out the same effect, and an effect is delineated instead by probing for systematic error
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-578	0	0	0	Between two trained networks that compute nearly the same function, a chain of models minimising the summed Jensen–Shannon divergence between neighbours, a discretised Fisher–Rao geodesic found without labels, can be a low-loss path where the straight line in weights has a barrier
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-600	0	0	0	A definition of health and disease by social justice alone cannot fix what counts as disease: with justice left undefined, a majority with other values could medicalise what the definition was meant to protect, and unless medicine is fixed from outside, the category drifts until health becomes justice
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-610	0	0	0	What survives radical theory change in a mature science, and so what its predictive success warrants belief in, is mathematical structure, equations carried over intact or recovered as limiting cases, and not the ontology that interpreted them, as Fresnel’s reflection and refraction equations survive into Maxwell’s theory while the elastic-solid ether does not
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-615	0	0	0	Stubborn distrust of scientific experts can follow validly from the truster’s position: one with little say in collective decisions, who has reason to think the experts’ service ethos leaves out their core interests, has a reason to distrust an expert because of the expert’s prestige, whatever the expert’s competence or goodwill
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-657	0	0	0	If an emergent property is one that the parts lack, then the other marks commonly given for emergence are separate questions about each system and not consequences of it: established condensed-matter cases show novelty without a discontinuity, a discontinuity without novelty, novelty that was predicted first, and novelty with a rigorous reduction
2026-10-16	Proposed	THEORY-682	0	0	0	The time-average of a single threshold (Hill) response to a periodic signal is independent of the signal’s period for a fixed waveform, so a frequency cannot be read by one sigmoidal stage; two cascaded stages can read it, because the first changes the waveform with period; and a delayed kinesin–dynein signalling loop whose period grows with axon length, read out this way and coupled to protrusion and contraction, can hold an axon at a stable length
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-802	0	61	0	In trained networks as in constructed ones, interchange interventions on a fixed set of variables can be satisfied equally by alignments related by a change of basis, so which internal direction mediates a high-level variable is fixed only relative to a chosen decomposition into units, and complex models will generally have several distinct, fully correct abstractions
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-769	0	45	0	Ownership of a body part is a graded belief that it is the most probable common cause of correlated multisensory input, so that synchronous stimulation of another object moves some of that belief to the object and away from the real part
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-768	0	44	0	Minimal selfhood is identification with the whole body, located where that body is felt to be and seen from inside it; owning a body part does not reach it, and bodily agency enables it causally without being part of it
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-776	0	38	0	For every β < 1/3 and every smooth, strictly positive and strictly decreasing energy profile e(t) on [0, T], there is a weak solution of the 3D incompressible Euler equations on the periodic box, Hölder-continuous of exponent β in space and time, with ∫
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-763	0	29	0	For every α < 1/3 there is a nonzero weak solution of the 3D incompressible Euler equations on the periodic box, with velocity Hölder-continuous of exponent α in space and time, that vanishes outside a finite time interval; its energy is not conserved, so the energy flux across a mollification scale ε does not vanish as ε → 0, and it runs in both directions, out of the vanishing scales while the energy rises and into them while it falls
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-772	0	22	0	For every β < 1/3 there is a weak solution of the 3D incompressible Euler equations on the periodic box, in C⁰_t(B^β_{3,∞} ∩ L^{1/(1−3β)}), whose Duchon–Robert dissipation is the smooth nonnegative density E(t, x) = −e(t)e′(t)ρ₀(x₁, x₂)² fixed at the construction’s first step; for such a solution the local coarse-grained energy flux into scales below ℓ converges, as ℓ → 0 and as a distribution in space and time, to E, so the transfer into vanishing scales is one-way at every place and time in the limit, nonzero inside a periodic array of pipes and zero outside them; where and how fast energy is dissipated is chosen by the construction, not forced by the equations, and nothing is shown about the sign at any positive scale
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-783	0	17	0	In neural-network training, sign-descent-like optimizers such as Adam make independent skills of unequal frequency compete for coordinate signs, so that they are learned one after another where gradient descent would learn them together; this is one source of sequential skill onset, beside dependence between skills, as Liu, Liu, Michaud, Gore and Tegmark propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-777	0	12	0	In Monte Carlo on a 64×64 periodic square-lattice Ising model at its critical point, parametrized by a field and 13 nearby couplings and observed only through the spins left after n checkerboard decimations (b = √2 per step, n ≤ 6), the two Fisher eigenvalues along the field and the gradient of T_c stay within a factor of about two of their microscopic values, while the others fall by up to about six decades, in three groups whose decay is consistent with b^(2y−d) per step for y = 0, −2 and −4
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-821	0	12	0	For every α < 1/15 there are weak solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler equations on the periodic box, Hölder-continuous of exponent α in space and time, that satisfy the local energy inequality; in the construction their dissipation measure is a nonnegative function of time alone, equal at each time to the rate at which the total energy falls, zero while the local energy equality holds and positive on all of space during a short final interval in which the solution’s energy is drained to zero; uncountably many such solutions share one initial datum and one dissipation measure; for them the local coarse-grained energy flux into vanishing scales converges to that measure, so the transfer is one-way at every place and time in the limit and spread uniformly over the box, with its timing chosen by the construction, not forced by the equations
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-747	0	8	0	In Fourier–Galerkin large-eddy simulation, a first-order finite-memory Mori–Zwanzig closure tracks filtered-DNS energy decay and dissipation on the viscous Burgers equation and on the incompressible Taylor–Green vortex, isotropic turbulence and channel flow about as well as dynamic Smagorinsky where that model is at home and better than Smagorinsky and the t-model on the transitional Taylor–Green vortex; the memory length that fits it is set by the cutoff, not by the flow alone, scaling in Burgers roughly as 0.2 over the spectral radius of the resolved variables’ Jacobian
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-801	0	8	0	Agents are the systems that would adapt their policy were their actions to affect the world differently, so the agent is wherever that adaptation is: a thermostat is not an agent while it together with its design process is, an RL training process is while its learnt policy generally is not, and humans are
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-759	0	7	0	A six-layer, 256-unit ReLU network trained by full-batch Adam to regress a sum of sinusoids at 5 to 50 cycles on [0, 1] fits the components in order of frequency, and keeps that order when the amplitudes rise tenfold with frequency, so in this setting the order of acquisition is set by the learner and not by the strength of the target’s components
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-785	0	5	1	Listeners interpret an utterance by inverting a model of a speaker who chooses among alternatives by informativeness, so what a fixed form conveys depends on what else the speaker could have said, as the rational speech act account of Frank, Goodman and coauthors proposes
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-823	0	3	0	Tetris players rotate pieces more often than planning a placement and then executing it would require, rotate them early and check the column more the higher the drop, because these moves are epistemic actions: physical action that stands in for mental computation at the moment of use
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-824	0	3	0	Economics working papers increasingly back their claims with design-based identification: in NBER and CEPR working papers the share of claims supported by difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, an RCT, regression discontinuity or synthetic control rose about fourfold from 1990 to 2020
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-826	0	3	0	In work groups, a member’s displayed mood spreads to the others, and pleasant emotional contagion improves the group’s cooperation and reduces its conflict
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-827	0	3	0	The rubber hand illusion is a perceptual illusion driven by multisensory integration: the difference in reports between synchronous and asynchronous brushing is produced by the stimulation, not by participants’ expectations
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-828	0	3	0	Fine-tuning from one pretrained model typically lands near the edge of a task-specific low-loss region in weight space that contains the convex hull of the fine-tuned models, and averaging their weights, as model soups and stochastic weight averaging do, works by moving inward
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-780	0	2	0	Transcriptional regulation alone can give a bacterium’s gene expression a memory: in E. coli, a transient knockdown or overexpression of one regulator, with the environment held fixed, can leave other genes in a different self-maintaining expression state after it is released, as Zhao, Wytock, Reynolds and Motter predict from a Boolean-network model of its regulatory core
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-781	0	2	0	Strong gradient noise in SGD, like weight decay above a threshold, makes the subspace fixed by a mirror symmetry of a network’s loss attracting even where it is a saddle, so that networks trained with SGD at large learning rates or small batches reach sparse, low-rank and identical-neuron solutions, as Ziyin proposes
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-782	0	2	0	In networks that learn addition from summed embeddings, the critical training fraction of grokking is the fraction at which the training set’s same-answer pairs come to fix the generalising representation up to translation and scale, at every group size, as Liu, Kitouni, Nolte, Michaud, Tegmark and Williams propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-784	0	2	0	Language models trained on limited data show a test loss falling as P^(−γ/(2β)) because P training tokens resolve token correlations only out to a horizon growing as P^(1/(2β)), so that more data mainly lengthens the context a model can use, when the model learns within that horizon faster than it grows, as Cagnetta, Raventós, Ganguli and Wyart propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-786	0	2	0	Deep networks learn hierarchically generated data from a number of examples set by when the correlations between input patches and the class rise above sampling noise, so detecting those correlations is how they learn the grammar, as Cagnetta and coauthors propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-788	0	2	0	Training a deep classifier past zero training error generally collapses its last-layer features onto their class means, drives the centred means toward a simplex equiangular tight frame aligned with the classifier, and makes the decision nearest class mean, as Papyan, Han and Donoho propose from their runs
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-789	0	2	0	The block coarse-graining that maximizes mutual information with the system beyond a buffer picks out the renormalization-group-relevant variables in general, so those variables can be found from samples by information alone, without being known beforehand, as Koch-Janusz and Ringel propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-790	0	2	0	In deep networks trained by SGD on real data, minibatch noise drives parameter groups related by a rescaling symmetry toward the point where their gradient noise balances, at a rate set by learning rate over batch size, so that at stationarity they sit neither where gradient flow would leave them nor spread out as under isotropic noise, as Ziyin, Li and Ueda propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-791	0	2	0	The colour-naming systems of the world’s languages lie near the information-bottleneck bound for compressing perceptual meanings into words, and differences in one trade-off parameter place each language along it, as Zaslavsky, Kemp, Regier and Tishby propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-792	0	2	0	In a deep linear network trained by gradient descent from generic initial weights, not only from decoupled ones, depth slows learning through the initial end-to-end strength of each mode, so that random orthogonal weights, whose product is an isometry, learn in a number of iterations that stays bounded as depth grows, as Saxe, McClelland and Ganguli argue from simulation
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-793	0	2	0	Gradient flow on a symmetrized Barlow Twins loss with a linear or fixed-kernel model, from generic small initialization and not only from initialization aligned with the eigenvectors, learns the top eigenvectors of the pairs’ symmetrized cross-correlation one at a time in order of eigenvalue and ends at a top spectral solution, as Simon and coauthors derive informally
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-794	0	2	0	In vision models, compositional generalization to unseen combinations of concepts is driven by the diversity of the combinations seen in training rather than by data volume, and arrives with representations that are linearly factored by concept, as Uselis, Dittadi and Oh propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-795	0	2	0	On a contested shared canvas, the artworks that last are those whose coalitions keep repairing them under continual overwriting, not those left unattacked, as Wu and Silva propose from the 2017 r/place lifecycles
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-796	0	2	0	Question-order effects in surveys generally leave the probability of giving the same answer to both questions unchanged, the QQ equality that a projection model of judgment predicts, as Wang, Solloway, Shiffrin and Busemeyer propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-797	0	2	0	Deep classifiers trained with MSE loss stay near the least-squares classifier for their own features and move along the central path by the dynamics of continually renormalized gradient flow, whose equal-rate growth of the whitened class-separation singular values is how they reach neural collapse, as Han, Papyan and Donoho propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-798	0	2	0	Independently trained neural encoders of the same data learn latent spaces that differ mainly by an angle-preserving map, a rotation or reflection times a rescaling, so their cosine similarities to shared anchor samples agree across seeds, architectures and languages, as Moschella et al. propose
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-799	0	2	0	Under geometric coarse-graining of the S¹ hidden-metric network model the average degree flows as r^ν, with ν = 2/(γ − 1) − 1 when the degree exponent γ sets it and 2/β − 1 when β does, so the coarse-grained networks run toward a complete graph for γ < 3 or β < 2 and toward a ring otherwise
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-800	0	2	0	A network of N threshold units with symmetric Hebbian couplings stores random patterns as attractors up to a load proportional to N, about 0.15N for all large N, past which recall fails for every pattern at once, and a provision for forgetting old memories, such as couplings that saturate, keeps the most recent ones retrievable however many are added
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-803	0	2	0	Real complex networks embedded in the hyperbolic plane are self-similar under geometric renormalization, their coarse-grained layers keeping the degree distribution, clustering and degree–degree correlations of the original, and this self-similarity is evidence that a hidden metric space underlies them
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-804	0	2	0	Ince’s common change in surprisal is a correct measure of the redundancy among any number of sources, and the negative partial-information atoms it gives are local misinformation and mechanistic redundancy, not defects of the measure
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-805	0	2	0	Volume-maximizing joint-embedding objectives as a class, VICReg and SimCLR as well as MSN and SwAV, carry a prior toward equal-sized clusters, and that prior costs them semantic transfer when the pretraining data are class-imbalanced, including on naturally long-tailed data
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-806	0	2	0	Translation without parallel data, as of an unknown animal communication system into a human language, is learnable from a plausibility prior over the target language alone, with error falling as the common ground between the languages grows and as the source language grows richer
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-807	0	2	0	The guppy-type overextension in Hampton’s membership data arises because a combined concept is in part a new, emergent concept and not only a logical combination of its parts, so human concept combination runs in two superposed layers, one classical and logical and one quantum and conceptual
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-808	0	2	0	Transformers trained by next-token prediction on sequence processes whose latent dynamics factor as a tensor product learn to represent the belief state in approximately orthogonal per-factor subspaces of about the factored dimension rather than the joint one, and reach that factored representation first even when noise makes it lossy
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-809	0	2	0	Language models trained by gradient descent on a mixture of random facts and other data reach the capacity-optimal allocation, so the model size and the mixing ratio at which they begin to learn the facts are those of an optimal capacity-bounded learner
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-810	0	2	0	Prediction-market prices keep much of an arbitrary price shock that no trader’s information supports for weeks, rather than correcting it within a short transition phase
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-811	0	2	0	With a kernel normalised to unit diagonal, the kernel quantum relative entropy of two distributions is within O(σ²) of their Kullback–Leibler divergence as the bandwidth σ shrinks, for translation-invariant kernels on the torus generally and for kernels on other compact groups
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-812	0	2	0	As dimension grows with the undersampling and sparsity ratios fixed, the ℓ₁ phase transition for recovering sparse vectors from random measurements sits at the same curve for a broad class of random-matrix ensembles, those with a kind of orthogonality or weak independence, as for Gaussian matrices, while differing at finite size
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-813	0	2	0	Training a wide network in the lazy, kernel regime does not make its features more collapsed than at initialization, so neural collapse, where it occurs, is something only feature learning produces
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-814	0	2	0	In scientific communities that settle on a consensus model by sound model comparisons, high reproducibility of results is not evidence that the consensus is true, because which alternatives get proposed can hold a false consensus whose results reproduce almost perfectly
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-815	0	2	0	Layering a navigable small-world graph on nested random subsets of the data, with links separated by length scale and each layer’s degree capped, makes greedy nearest-neighbour search cost grow logarithmically with the number of items on data of low intrinsic dimension, where the single-layer graph’s cost grows polylogarithmically
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-816	0	2	0	Learners inferring what a novel word means from its use reason about a speaker who chose the word to be informative about the referent, so the size principle in word learning is a consequence of that inference and not a separate rule of generalisation
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-817	0	2	0	Once an agent’s actions affect the percepts it receives, maximal prediction of those percepts is generally not what thermodynamic efficiency requires: in percept-action loops with feedback, maximally predictive agents generally extract less work than the most efficient agent
2026-10-20	Proposed	THEORY-825	0	2	0	Hyperbolic graph embedding models trained on task losses that never mention the hierarchy do not place a tree’s root nearest the origin, and their distance from the origin orders hierarchical levels only partly
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-854	0	17	0	A public ranking can raise its own validity through the reactions it provokes: where a unit’s published rank affects the inputs to its next rank, as when applicants choose by rank and their choices feed the selectivity score, or raters who know little but the last rank fill the reputation survey, rank differences that began as measurement noise can become real differences that the ranking then correctly reports
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-834	0	7	0	A member of a discipline who has been trained into its paradigms yet remains rooted in experience those paradigms omit or distort is better placed than its insiders to perceive those omissions and distortions as anomalies, and better placed than outsiders who share the experience to have them taken up, because insiders share the assumptions that produced the anomalies and outsiders lack the professional authority to press them
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-838	0	7	0	The emphasis the news media give to issues raises the importance their audiences assign those issues, independently of any change in the audiences’ attitudes toward the issues: the media influence what people think about more than what they think
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-859	0	7	0	Regulatory capture can operate through the evaluative framework a regulator adopts rather than through its decisions: when experts design a standard from an ideologically motivated view of the public interest that consistently marginalizes important public values, outcomes can favour an interest with no lobbying or improper exchange; US antitrust’s consumer welfare standard is offered as a strong case
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-841	0	5	0	Knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place is held dispersed among many people and cannot be conveyed to a central authority in statistical form, so decisions that depend on it are better taken by those who hold it, and a price system lets them fit their decisions together by conveying the relative scarcities each needs without the causes behind them
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-857	0	5	0	Remedies for algorithmic governance offered as access or as transparency can run against the people they are meant to serve: inclusion in a data system also gives its operators access to the included, and transparency can be demanded of the governed while the governing system stays opaque, so what an access or transparency remedy does depends on who is made visible to whom
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-858	0	5	0	Insulating a regulator from future political revision fixes in place the interests of whoever designs the insulated regime: it relieves the underinvestment that electoral pressure on prices causes when the designers serve consumers, and entrenches capture, removing the electoral pressure that would correct it, when they serve the regulated industry
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-864	0	5	0	When a generative model reproduces a prejudiced narrative learned from its training data, the resulting testimonial injustice runs through a credibility excess assigned to the model, so that hearers believe the amplified account over the testimony of those it discredits, rather than through a hearer’s prejudiced judgement of a present speaker
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-853	0	4	0	Giving players more information shrinks what an information designer can make them do: for one player, being more informative in Blackwell’s sense, being a garbling’s source and leaving a smaller set of Bayes correlated equilibria in every decision problem are the same order; for many players the incentive order is individual sufficiency, which neither implies nor is implied by sufficiency of the players’ joint information
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-830	0	2	0	In human visual cortex the content of a sustained seen image is carried by a stable population code that lasts as long as the image, not by a sustained level of activity, and frontoparietal cortex marks only its onset; so a sustained experience rests on sensory representation and its discrete updates on frontoparietal representation
2026-10-21	Proposed	THEORY-832	0	2	0	For strict combining functions and m attribute-sorted lists of N objects whose orderings are probabilistically independent, no correct top-k algorithm does essentially better than Fagin’s Algorithm in the worst case with high probability: every one needs on the order of N^((m−1)/m) k^(1/m) accesses
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-880	0	17	2	The specific phenomenal character of an experience is fixed by its place in a quality space, the structure of all the discriminations a sensory system can make, and that structure is mirrored many-to-one in neural feature maps; whether the state is conscious at all is left to a separate general mechanism; so experiences are holistic, a change anywhere in the space can change every experience in it, and spectrum inversion is excluded actually by the asymmetry of colour space and nomologically by its ties to the other senses
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-882	0	16	5	Consciousness in an inferring system requires three things: a unified generative model of its world; entry to that model by a precision-weighted competition that coherent inferences win; and epistemic depth, the recursive sharing of the model back through the hierarchy, carried by a hyper-model that predicts and sets precision at every level; awareness then varies with epistemic depth, not with the richness of contents, and a first-person perspective, a self-model and agency are not required
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-868	0	14	2	The structuralist methods and evidence in consciousness science support only that experiences have structure or stand in relations to other experiences, not that an experience is nothing but its relations; the stronger, metaphysical thesis implies that relational knowledge fixes what an experience is like, that every new experience changes all the others, and that a system with a single experience is impossible, and each consequence is doubtful
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-867	0	12	1	The geometry of the colour similarity space does not mark the four unique hues, nor the difference between the black–white axis, along which every grey is a mixture of both ends, and the opponent axes, along which each half shows only one end; so a structuralism on which phenomenal character is fixed by similarity relations alone cannot account for how colour experiences are composed
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-873	0	11	6	Claims to be conscious are produced by an automatic internal model, and since such models are schematic, the intangible, what-it-is-like essence people report is that model’s caricature of a real process, proposed to be attention, or the deep selective processing of information that attention, the global workspace and integration share; a theory that explains how neurons produce a feeling without explaining how the feeling comes to be encoded for report (Arrow B) does not explain the reports
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-883	0	9	3	Under active inference, the contents of consciousness are posterior beliefs about the hidden states of world, body or brain, and a posterior is conscious when it has the capacity to inform discrete, counterfactual policy selection, at a timescale slow enough to abstract from sensory flux and with enough precision to tell alternatives apart; on this account no conscious content changes without a change in the posterior, and a stimulus given precision by an attention or saccade policy should reach awareness sooner than a retinally matched one
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-876	0	7	4	Phenomenal consciousness is the coherent functioning of an embodied agent’s generative model of its sensorium, coherent in space, time and cause and run either coupled to sense data (perception) or decoupled from it (imagination); embodied grounding, the model’s capacity to inform and be informed by action–perception cycles at behavioural timescales and the history of such coupling by which it was learned, is necessary, so that integrated information or a functional global workspace without it does not suffice
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-878	0	7	3	Instructed reappraisal of aversive pictures engages anterior prefrontal, temporo-parietal and cerebellar regions that show evidence of no response to negative emotion generation, beside a larger set of regions engaged both by generation and by reappraisal: in this task part of regulation runs in regions apart from generation, and most of it in regions shared with it
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-888	0	7	0	Walking through a doorway into a new room, rather than as far within one, lowers recognition of an object being carried, through retrieval interference between the event models of the two rooms that both hold it, not through a longer retention interval, a passing cost of updating, or loss of the encoding context; outside the originating paradigm, with passive movement and no extra load, it has not appeared
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-872	0	6	2	A self-model compresses the sensory effects of a system’s own activity by positing one stable common cause, at fast and slow timescales; there is such a pattern in the signal, so the self is real as a pattern and unreal as a substance, and realists and anti-realists about selves who accept this agree on the facts and differ on the criterion of reality
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-874	0	6	3	Whether a view of mind is organicist or informationalist is a dimension orthogonal to whether it is cognitivist or embodied, and the enactive approach of The Embodied Mind is set apart from other embodied views by organicism with experiential primacy and reciprocity, not by sensorimotor emphasis
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-879	0	6	1	Representing a sensory quality, even in the distinctively sensory way, does not make there be something it is like for the subject to have it: a quality can occur unnoticed, as for an absent-minded driver, so what it is like to experience a quality is a further property that needs awareness, and a representational theory of sensory qualities leaves open what makes a state experienced
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-886	0	6	0	Event boundaries are perceived where perceptual prediction error rises transiently; at those points working-memory event models are reset and opened to sensory input, so that information from before a boundary becomes harder to retrieve after it
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-877	0	5	1	Learning a generative model of sensory data extracts real patterns in Dennett’s sense, so the manifest image is a structural description of the sensory signal, constrained by its external source but silent on what realizes the structure; two subjects whose sensory streams match, one envatted, therefore have equally veridical manifest images, and what differs between them, the realizers, lies outside what perception can represent
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-881	0	5	0	Across humans, macaques, marmosets and mice, loss of behavioural responsiveness under anaesthesia goes with lower whole-brain pairwise integrated information ΦR in resting fMRI, and its return goes with ΦR’s return, including when central thalamic stimulation restores responsiveness during continued anaesthesia; ΦR tracks the macaque arousal score better than the original Φ, causal density, net information flow or functional connectivity
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-875	0	4	1	Phenomenal binding of the parts of an experience can be modelled as agreement, on overlaps, of measured similarity structures assigned to the parts by a presheaf, and the broad quale is fixed by its parts exactly when that presheaf is a sheaf; a sheaf failure may mark disunity, as proposed for binocular rivalry, or context dependence within one unified experience, as in the Ebbinghaus illusion, and the framework does not yet say which
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-887	0	4	1	When an attribute is concentrated on well-connected nodes, many nodes can see it in a majority of their neighbours though it is globally rare, and the share that do grows with the correlation between degree and attribute, as the network becomes more disassortative and as its degree distribution becomes heavier-tailed
2026-10-22	Proposed	THEORY-890	0	4	1	Culture shapes action less by setting its ends than by supplying a repertoire of skills, habits and styles from which people build strategies of action, so strategies outlast the ends they serve; in settled periods culture constrains through the cost of retooling, while in unsettled periods explicit ideologies govern action directly but structural opportunities decide which of the competing ideologies survive
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-916	0	20	4	In the DeGroot–Friedkin model, where a group reaches DeGroot consensus on each issue and each member’s self-weight on the next issue equals their control over the last, with fixed relative interpersonal weights that form a strongly connected network, self-weights converge from every non-autocratic start to one equilibrium ordered by the eigenvector centralities of those weights: power accumulates above a centrality threshold, is autocratic exactly when the network is a star and democratic exactly when it is doubly stochastic; and in the networks that are not strongly connected that the authors treat, members to whom some other member does not listen, even indirectly, end with none
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-914	0	9	6	In fear conditioning, extinction does not erase the original threat association but adds a competing inhibitory one, which is why extinguished fear can return with time, a change of context, an unsignalled aversive event or renewed pairing
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-938	0	8	4	Cross learning has the expected motion of the replicator dynamic and follows it on any finite horizon in the continuous-time limit, but for every learning speed the discrete process converges with probability one to a pure strategy profile, even in games where the replicator dynamic cycles
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-936	0	5	3	In two-agent rock–scissors–paper played by softmax reinforcement learners, nonzero tie rewards give quasiperiodic tori and Hamiltonian chaos without memory decay, and limit cycles and chaotic attractors with it, over a large share of the tie-reward range simulated
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-905	0	4	1	In simulations of the two imitation protocols, populations small enough to be finite often settle on a suboptimal option because pure imitation can remove a type entirely, and once settled the protocols give no way to re-explore when the environment changes; variants in which members compare quality estimates converge faster than blind weighted voting, at the cost of more communication and comparison
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-919	0	4	2	Departments of the French Empire more shielded from British trade by the Napoleonic blockade added more mechanized cotton-spinning capacity during it and kept a larger industry through 1887, with more productive spinning firms in 1840 and higher industrial value added per capita in 1860 but not detectably from 1896
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-931	0	3	1	A learner that ascends its own return after one anticipated naive gradient step of its opponent, differentiating through that step, reached tit-for-tat-like reciprocity in 81% of fifty exact-gradient runs of the memory-one iterated prisoner’s dilemma, where pairs of naive gradient learners ended at the mutual-defection return, and settled at the mixed equilibrium of iterated matching pennies where naive learners did not converge; shown for two players, one-step shaping and access to the opponent’s parameters
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-934	0	3	2	Under Bush–Mosteller learning with negative payoffs, the continuous-time limit is a replicator term in benefits plus a probability-matching term, which alone drives choice probabilities to success probabilities
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-939	0	3	2	In a multi-agent system run against a world utility, a private utility is factored, ranking each agent’s own alternatives with the others fixed as the world utility ranks them, exactly when it is an increasing function of the world utility given the components the agent cannot affect; the world utility minus its value with the agent’s effect set clamped is factored, and in a sixty-agent bar problem clamping to the average action learned better than clamping to absence or using the world utility itself
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-941	0	2	1	If every player of a finite game switches from its last action to each other action with probability proportional to its positive conditional regret, the empirical distribution of play converges almost surely to the set of correlated equilibria
2026-10-24	Proposed	THEORY-935	0	1	0	In two two-player Markov games whose learned cooperative and defecting policies, played against each other, both give Prisoner’s Dilemma payoffs, independent deep Q-learners responded oppositely to capacity: more hidden units raised aggression in a fruit-gathering game, where tagging a rival is the harder policy to implement, and lowered lone hunting in a wolfpack game, where coordination is; in the gathering game, aggression was learned where apples were scarce or a tagged rival stayed out long
2026-10-25	Proposed	THEORY-959	0	8	1	Perceptual constancies are invariants of transformations that act within experience, not only of physical transformations or planar projections, since perceived shape and depth match no linear projection and the transformations can be realized with no physical change; on Isaac’s structuralist account, after Cassirer, it is these invariants, co-present in experience with the varying appearances they abstract from, that make experience represent an objective world and so distinguish subject from object
2026-10-25	Proposed	THEORY-950	0	6	0	For a finite partial-monitoring game in which every two actions whose cells meet can estimate their loss difference from their own two signals, RelExp3’s expected regret satisfies lim sup E[R_n]/√n ≤ 8√(2K_loc(1+F)(2+F) log K), with K_loc the most actions whose cells share a point and F the number of feedback symbols, and no other game-dependent constant; a two-action game shows that a factor linear in F cannot be avoided in general
2026-10-25	Proposed	THEORY-947	0	5	1	For Blackwell approachability of an approachable polytope under partial monitoring with a known signal law, there are efficient algorithms whose average vector payoff reaches the target at expected distance O(T^-1/3) for general signals and O(T^-1/2) when the signal law does not depend on the decision, the worst-case optimal rates for those two classes
2026-10-25	Proposed	THEORY-949	0	5	0	When several LoRAs take turns over one denoising trajectory, each given the same share of steps, the result depends on the schedule and not only on the shares: switching at every step scored worst (a composition win rate against weight merging near 38%, against about 59% when each LoRA kept five consecutive steps), shortening the turns late in sampling scored worse than keeping them fixed, and which LoRA acted first mattered more than the order of the rest, the character first scoring best and the style first slightly below a random order
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1013	0	31	0	In trained vision networks, units or other directions in a layer’s activation space are typically meaningful features, and the weights between understood features implement algorithms that can be read off them, so that features and their circuits are the units in which such a network can be understood, as Olah, Cammarata, Schubert, Goh, Petrov and Carter propose
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-990	0	17	0	In transformer language models of every size, including large ones with MLPs, induction heads, extended to fuzzy matching of similar tokens and abstract patterns, are the mechanism of most in-context learning, as Olsson et al. propose
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-997	0	17	0	When a pretrained language model is fine-tuned on a task it initially fails, it acquires the task mainly by reconnecting components it already has rather than by recruiting new ones: the circuits found before and after keep most of their nodes and change most of their edges, as Wang, Hu, Du, Cheng, Wang and Zou propose from LoRA fine-tuning of Pythia-1.4B on arithmetic
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1016	0	15	0	The features a sparse autoencoder recovers from a language model are a resolution set by the dictionary’s width and sparsity penalty, not a unique set of the model’s units: as the dictionary widens, features split into families of finer features, and splits also merge, so that the number of features is not well-posed
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-967	0	12	0	In a two-layer attention-only transformer, attention heads change function during training: heads in the first layer that predict simple n-grams early later become the previous-token heads of the induction circuit, a bracket-matching support head, or supporting members of a circuit with second-layer n-gram heads, giving up simple n-grams as they do, and particular n-grams pass from one head to another; so later circuits form partly by repurposing components that already had a role
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-986	0	11	0	Analogous features and circuits form across neural networks trained on different architectures, data and tasks, so that a feature or circuit found in one model can be expected in others, as Olah, Cammarata, Schubert, Goh, Petrov and Carter propose under the name universality
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-995	0	11	0	The attention heads in GPT-2 small that take over the indirect-object prediction when its main name mover heads are knocked out exist because the model was trained with dropout, which optimized it to be robust to disabled components, as Wang, Variengien, Conmy, Shlegeris and Steinhardt hypothesize
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-982	0	10	0	Claude 3.5 Haiku routinely computes intermediate steps within a single forward pass and plans its outputs ahead, representing a target before the text that leads to it and writing towards it, as Lindsey et al. propose from their case studies
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1004	0	9	0	In Pythia-1B, OLMo-1B and BLOOM-1B, the crosscoder features that most affect subject–verb agreement change over pretraining: at early checkpoints they detect particular tokens and subtokens, at later ones grammatical categories; in BLOOM, language-specific features give way to features shared across English, French, Spanish and Portuguese while Hindi and Arabic keep language-specific ones; and which features matter keeps shifting after task accuracy has stopped improving
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1014	0	8	0	In a language model, a behaviour that looks like one mechanism, whether picked out by one contrast or by one cluster of next-token predictions, is often carried by several distinct pathways of sparse features that converge on the output without fully intersecting, as in Pythia-70M’s agreement across a relative clause, its prediction of “to” before an infinitival object, and its incrementing of sequences
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-965	0	8	2	Sparse-autoencoder features of a large language model’s residual stream are units the model computes with: they track abstract concepts across languages, modalities and concrete or abstract instances, and intervening on one changes the model’s behaviour in the way its label predicts, better than directions found from a few labelled examples
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1000	0	7	0	For fine-grained nodes of transformer language models generally, attribution patching corrected for attention saturation is a reliable prefilter for activation patching: nodes it ranks low rarely have large single-node patching effects, so verifying nodes in its order finds the important ones at a small multiple of the cost of an oracle, as Kramár et al. expect
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1001	0	5	0	In a transformer whose candidate circuits are sets of shared elementary coordinates, how circuits interact during training is set by what they share: circuits that share a unit cooperate, and circuits that need the same layers for different roles compete, so that which circuit wins is decided by the initialization of units beyond its own, with sharp boundaries between competitors and soft ones between cooperators, as Musat, Pimentel, Zucchet and Hofmann read their three-layer scan
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-1008	0	3	0	Mixed memberships fitted by a fifteen-block MMSB to 871 yeast proteins’ curated physical interactions carry information about the proteins’ top-level MIPS functions beyond what the functions’ base rates give: after mapping blocks to functions on 87 proteins, thresholded memberships predicted the other proteins’ annotations with about 87% accuracy, against about 70% for random guessing at the right proportions
2026-10-26	Proposed	THEORY-989	0	3	0	On the abstracts of the Journal of the ACM, the held-out likelihood of infinite-depth hierarchical LDA is higher than that of flat LDA at every fixed topic count in a range bracketing hLDA’s own posterior topic count, about 140, though the authors expect flat LDA to win once the topic count is free
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1022	0	13	0	The curve units of InceptionV1’s mixed3b detect curves as such: curves, not correlated stimuli, cause their firing, they respond to curves in general whatever their colour, fill or texture, and they have no meaningful secondary function, their weak responses to edges and angles being part of the same curve-detecting algorithm, as Cammarata, Goh, Carter, Schubert, Petrov and Olah claim
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1026	0	12	0	In transformer language models, locating where a forward pass carries information about a fact and finding where a weight edit best changes the expressed fact are different questions, because an edit at one layer can override information accumulated across other layers, so that many layers could hold a fact and some happen to, as Hase, Bansal, Kim and Ghandeharioun propose
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1021	0	11	0	In transformer language models, attribution patching agrees well with activation patching for small patches of single heads and their queries, keys, values and attention patterns, for nodes late in a circuit relative to the metric, and for circuits that route information through attention, and agrees badly for large patches such as whole residual streams, for the first MLP layer and the early layers of deep circuits, where nonlinearities move out of saturation, and where an effect needs several features at once, as Nanda proposes
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1039	0	8	0	In autoregressive transformer language models, factual associations are recalled through middle-layer MLP modules acting as key–value memories, and any fact could be stored equally in any one of the middle MLP layers, as Meng, Bau, Andonian and Belinkov conjecture
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1044	0	8	0	For the infinite hidden Markov model the beam sampler reaches the posterior in fewer iterations than the single-site Gibbs sampler, and is less sensitive to initialization and hyperpriors, particularly when hidden states persist and emissions are uninformative, at a cost per iteration close to the Gibbs sampler’s
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1047	0	8	0	The curve units of InceptionV1’s mixed3b implement a simple algorithm that can be read off their weights and written down in a few sentences: families of Gabors, lines and early curves, each a set of rotated copies of one unit, tiled along the curve’s tangent, with negative weights against similar shapes of opposing orientation, rotational and scale equivariance reducing the circuit’s more than 50,000 parameters about fifty-fold, so that a network written from this description reimplements them and the description accurately reflects the circuit, as Cammarata, Goh, Carter, Voss, Schubert and Olah claim
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1030	0	7	0	In transformer language models, each hidden unit of a feed-forward layer acts as a key–value memory, its input weights detecting patterns in the prefix and its output weights promoting the tokens that follow them, and a layer’s output composes many such memories while the residual stream refines the prediction from layer to layer, as Geva, Schuster, Berant and Levy propose
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1040	0	6	0	The units of the early layers of trained vision networks fall largely into neuron families, sets of variants of one feature across orientation, colour or scale, which reflect structure in the network rather than a convenience of the person sorting them, and the same families form across models, as Olah, Cammarata, Schubert, Goh, Petrov and Carter propose
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1052	0	6	1	A quasi-static attractor describes an open system only while the drift of that attractor in state space is slow against the system’s slowest relaxation, scaled by the distance to the tipping threshold; rate-induced tipping is the failure of that time-scale separation, and it can occur while the parameter itself moves slowly, if the attractor is sensitive to it, and with no slowing of any mode
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1027	0	5	0	In audits of language models for hidden objectives, sparse-autoencoder features add to what black-box attacks and semantic search over the training data can find, surfacing knowledge the model does not disclose even where the data that taught it is not semantically similar to the context in which it is applied, as Marks, Treutlein et al. suggest
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1035	0	5	0	In trained neural networks, polysemantic neurons arise from the loss-optimal allocation of a layer’s limited capacity among features: a feature is shared between neurons when its marginal loss reduction from capacity equals that of the features it shares with, so that sparser, higher-kurtosis inputs, which make returns to capacity diminish, produce more polysemanticity, and the block structure of the embedding, which architecture shapes, sets how many features each neuron mixes, as Scherlis, Sachan, Jermyn, Benton and Shlegeris propose
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1095	0	5	0	In Toner and Tu’s hydrodynamic model of a flock, true long-range orientational order survives in two dimensions, where the Mermin–Wagner theorem forbids it at equilibrium and the model’s own linearized theory loses it, because the convective coupling of the velocity field to its own transport, relevant below four dimensions, keeps the transverse velocity fluctuations bounded; the authors’ heuristic is that motion keeps changing each member’s neighbours, so originally distant members come to interact
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1056	0	4	0	In angular synchronization with outlier offsets, a polynomial-time spectral relaxation, the top eigenvector of the Hermitian matrix of measured phase offsets, recovers the angles once the share of good offsets exceeds about 1/√n on the complete graph, within a factor √((L − 1)/(2 log₂ L)) of the information bound that limits every algorithm, while exact maximum likelihood is a non-convex search costing O(mLⁿ) exhaustively; in this model the price of recovering the global configuration cheaply instead of optimally is a constant factor in evidence, which vanishes for L ≤ 6
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1086	0	4	2	A fundamental metaphysics bears on the metaphysics of the lifeworld only through features that admit no approximation; without any, a relational world can approximate one of separable individuals, and the independence of social theorizing from fundamental metaphysics is then real but contingent, on the size of Planck’s constant, not principled
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1091	0	4	1	Agential realism has no answer to the measurement problem as it stands: holding that measurement never disentangles apparatus and object, it cannot borrow relational quantum mechanics’ treatment of the wave function as bookkeeping without giving up the ontological holism, and its appeal to an improper mixture does not explain why one value is found
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1097	0	4	4	A Markov blanket, in any formulation including sparse coupling at nonequilibrium steady state and time-varying blanket states, does not individuate a system: where it falls is fixed by modelling choices made before it is found, so it presupposes the boundary it is used to find, and it cannot represent a boundary the system produces
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1055	0	3	0	In models of decoherence, the information a small fraction of the environment holds about a system rises steeply to a plateau at the system’s entropy H_S, so many disjoint fragments each carry nearly all of it, and this redundancy is high only for the pointer observable; Zurek identifies it with objective existence, many observers learning the pointer state independently and without disturbing the system, though the paper argues and does not prove that a plateau in mutual information gives each observer the same record
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1073	0	3	1	An aggregate variable much slower than the behaviour producing it becomes an environment the components tune to whether or not it summarizes the underlying regularities well, which helps coordination; if it summarizes them poorly the system likely fails in the end, later the larger the separation
2026-10-27	Proposed	THEORY-1092	0	3	0	Read over the sensor domains, the discrepancies between each observation and the restrictions of others can single out a faulty sensor where the consistency radius alone does not: in Robinson’s simulated search, a 2° bearing bias was attributed to the right sensor, without prior knowledge of it, because every large discrepancy involved that sensor’s domains, while the radius was lower than in the unbiased case
2026-10-28	Proposed	THEORY-1112	0	14	4	Perceiving people as a group entity, rather than as members of a common category, requires detecting or inferring collective intentionality among them; similarity, and categorization into an equivalence class, yields interchangeable members but not a group
2026-10-28	Proposed	THEORY-1115	0	13	2	A we-identity, being one of us, can arise through mutual individualization, in which members grasp one another as non-substitutable and complementary, without depersonalization, as in long friendships and romantic partnerships; so depersonalization is not necessary for a we-identity
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1113	0	8	1	In team-sport fandom, perceived rivalry intensity lowers fans’ sense of being respected by the rival’s fans but raises their sense of in-group distinctiveness and cohesion, and these gains run through the perception that the rivalry is reciprocated, not through disidentification with the rival
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1145	0	4	2	Unsupervised alignment of two monolingual word-embedding spaces recovers translations only where the spaces are close to isometric, and the distance from isometry depends on the corpora and the embedding algorithm as well as on the languages: adversarial alignment fails for English with Estonian or Finnish, across corpus domains, and between skip-gram and CBOW spaces of the same language pair, GW alignment is weakest on the same Finnish pair, and a spectral dissimilarity of small nearest-neighbour graphs tracks success
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1116	0	3	1	Football fans can identify with a superordinate community of fans across clubs and countries, a European fan community, alongside their club identity rather than in place of it; that identification goes with particularized trust in foreign fans and cross-border viewing, and is independent of attitudes to the sport’s governing institutions
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1127	0	3	3	A CycleGAN trained to translate aerial photographs to maps and back satisfies its cycle-consistency loss by encoding details of the photograph in a low-amplitude, high-frequency signal in the generated map: the reconstruction recovers details the visible map lacks, is destroyed by noise of three 8-bit levels or by JPEG compression and survives low-frequency change, and the same sensitivity lets an imperceptible perturbation of almost any map make the reverse generator output any chosen photograph
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1154	0	3	3	People interpreting an analogy carry relations from base to target and drop the attributes of objects, and among the relations they prefer those bound into a system by higher-order relations, such as causal or mathematical constraints, over isolated ones (structure-mapping and its systematicity principle)
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1124	0	2	2	Normalized log co-occurrences of words in large corpora behave as distances in a Euclidean semantic space: they correlate with human similarity ratings (r = 0.75 against MEN) and their nearest-neighbour centrality and reciprocity fall in the range expected of points sampled in a Euclidean space, apart from superordinate and function words
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1126	0	2	2	In animal development the organ-level outcome is reproducible while the trajectories of individual cells differ between embryos raised alike, so developmental regularity is imposed on variable cell behaviour rather than read out from a fixed sequence of cellular events (Weiss, as Nicholson reconstructs him), with invariant lineages such as that of C. elegans the conceded exception
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1136	0	2	1	Poincaré embeddings of one hierarchy from different random seeds differ by more than an isometry of the hyperbolic ball, with branches placed differently and pairwise distances changed, so aligners that allow only a global orthogonal or Möbius map recover almost none of the correspondence, while a non-linear registration by a hyperbolic neural network, trained through a Sinkhorn divergence and started from a pretraining step, recovers a substantial part of it but finds the exact match for under a quarter of items even when the two hierarchies are identical
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1137	0	2	2	When an abstraction map between two causal models is learned by optimal transport from paired interventional distributions, a transport cost that rewards pairs of states compatible with the same paired interventions gives much lower held-out abstraction error than a Hamming cost when the intervention set is rich, and higher error when it holds only a few, because with few interventions the compatibility cost is nearly uniform
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1143	0	2	2	When one domain carries more information than the other, a translation trained only to make the round trip close cannot meet that requirement through a correspondence in the intermediate’s visible code, so the round trip closes through a channel the intermediate’s audience does not read; agreement of the round trip with its source therefore says nothing about whether the intermediate renders the source’s content for that audience
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1160	0	2	0	Choosing which source objects to have an oracle match, by the derivative of a proxy utility of the entropic transport plan (its nearness to a permutation, or its consistency with the graphs) with respect to supervising each candidate match, averaged over matches by the current plan, raises held-out alignment accuracy more than uncertainty, centrality and matching-sampling query rules at the same label budget, by up to about three points on network alignment and less on image–text tasks; the gain depends on weighting by the current plan, without which the rule does worse than random
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1170	0	2	2	A convex map between two scenarios’ model sets is induced by a classical adaptive procedure exactly when some non-contextual model of the corresponding adaptive hom scenario induces it
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1131	0	1	0	On native-authored pragmatic items in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Malayalam, current multilingual LLMs pick the right reading from four options more often than they label it unaided, and when wrong they lean toward the literal reading
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1144	0	1	0	A multilingual classifier trained only on English politeness ratings separates the most from the least polite requests in nine other languages at about 81% accuracy, without translation, yet stays about 10 points below one native judge’s agreement with two others in most of them
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1148	0	1	0	Single judges agree moderately on how pragmatically similar two spoken utterances are, mean pairwise correlation 0.45 to 0.72 by session, less when the utterances differ in words, so a mean over six to nine judges is much more reliable than any one judge
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1157	0	1	0	Native-speaker crowd judges agree only modestly on the graded politeness of written requests in their own language, mean pairwise Spearman about 0.46 across nine languages, and the same bilinguals agree less on English requests, about 0.36
2026-10-29	Proposed	THEORY-1171	0	1	1	In groups that build a new communication system, larger groups make it more systematic, and the greater variety of input they face drives the effect
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1195	0	6	0	About 800 Myr ago the breakup of the Eulalia parent body beside the Jupiter 3:1 resonance sent an impact shower to the terrestrial planets and the Moon that made the cluster of large lunar craters dated near 800 Ma
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1210	0	5	0	When several networks are aligned, fitting one joint multi-marginal coupling finds held-out correspondences better than fitting them in pairs, and the gain comes from the joint fit itself, not from the cost or the search space that come with it
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1232	0	5	0	Under reflected appraisal across issues, whether power concentrates in one member depends on the single-issue step: with Friedkin–Johnsen anchoring on initial positions almost every random strongly connected group evolves to a single leader, and with DeGroot consensus the same random complete networks keep power spread
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1233	0	5	0	For the replicator flow of a finite game, every asymptotically stable sink chain component contains at least one sink strongly connected component of the weakly-better-response graph, a Markov-Conley chain
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1236	0	5	0	Agency is relative to an observer: an identified system is an agent, for that observer, to the degree that a description of the function it optimises explains its behaviour better under the observer’s prior than any description of its input-output mapping
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1198	0	3	0	Unlawful states of emergency, in declaration, conduct or duration, follow political turmoil far more often than natural disasters, are rarer in democracies than in autocracies, and last much longer than lawful ones
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1201	0	3	0	Normalized stem length is not a clock of gene acquisition time: it is set mainly by factors other than when a gene was acquired, such as adaptation to the new cell after acquisition, so relative timings of eukaryogenesis drawn from stem lengths alone are not supported
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1214	0	3	0	Cicada hosts whose endosymbiont Hodgkinia has split into many interdependent lineages compensate by sending more Hodgkinia cells to each egg, with Sulcia numbers and the transmission route unchanged, so that every egg still receives every lineage; the raised titre is a host adaptation driven by the symbiont’s fragmentation, and a cost of it
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1220	0	3	0	A graph network that learns its sheaf restriction maps from node features succeeds on heterophilic graphs because it learns the class-aligned transports its separation theory prescribes: sign flips or rotations across classes, identity within them
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1221	0	3	0	Anger makes fake news viral online: on Weibo fake news carries more anger and less joy than true news, and the anger in a post causes it to be shared more
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1231	0	3	0	When each agent’s Q-function is approximated as an average of pairwise terms and expanded about the mean action of its neighbours, the first-order term vanishes and the approximation error is a second-order remainder bounded by the curvature of the pairwise Q-function, leaving a two-body problem between an agent and its neighbours’ average; with homogeneous agents, mean field Q-learning converges to the Nash Q-value under assumptions the authors call strong, and learned tasks of 500 and 1000 agents where independent and centralized-critic baselines failed
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1234	0	3	0	The replicator-plus-entropy model of Boltzmann Q-learning in two-player stateless games is exact for frequency-adjusted Q-learning, not for Q-learning, whose expected update carries an extra factor of each action’s selection probability and whose trajectories in 2×2 games depart from the model depending on initialization
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1239	0	3	3	No logistic system, one that separates propositions from general laws of inference, can carry commonsense knowledge, whose defaults later evidence displaces: attempts to repair its monotonicity will continue to fail
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1245	0	3	3	Evaluating expected free energy recursively over the beliefs an agent would hold after each plausible outcome makes active inference a pruned tree search over belief states, formally analogous to Bellman recursion, which lets the agent plan through short-term costs that one-step agents cannot; that the pruning keeps deep search tractable beyond toy problems is argued, not shown
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1174	0	2	0	Industry can bias a scientific community toward a worse treatment without corrupting any individual, by selectively funding researchers whose methods already favour its product, provided researchers differ in method and both influence and the training of newcomers follow productivity; an independent funder that discounts industry-funded work counteracts this, and one that funds on productivity alone makes it worse
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1176	0	2	0	Implementation intentions affect performance only when the goal intention they serve is strong and activated, so the cue-triggered response is gated by the goal and does not fire on the cue alone
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1196	0	2	0	During a visual decision task, neurons within a single area of mouse cortex rarely form discrete functional types, yet the task conditions the area distinguishes are linearly separable in nearly every way
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1197	0	2	0	Eukaryogenesis involved one archaeal host lineage, of Asgard descent, and one bacterial endosymbiont, the alphaproteobacterial ancestor of mitochondria; the eukaryotic genes from other bacteria came by piecemeal gene transfer, not from further symbiotic partners
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1200	0	2	0	The Asgard archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes depended on metabolic partners: like Candidatus Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum, it degraded amino acids in syntrophy, handing hydrogen and formate to partners that removed them
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1203	0	2	0	The host lineage elaborated its cytoskeleton, endomembrane system and nuclear machinery before mitochondrial endosymbiosis began, about 2.2 billion years ago: most pre-LECA duplications in eukaryotic gene families of archaeal origin predate it
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1204	0	2	2	The strongest evidence that a quality-space model targets phenomenal experience, and not only behaviour or neural activity, is convergence between models of the same space derived through different behavioural procedures, since experience is what those procedures share
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1205	0	2	0	Eukaryotes began in a syntrophic partnership: an archaeal host fermented sugars and passed reducing equivalents to an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont that contributed a TCA cycle and an electron transport chain, which is why the last eukaryotic common ancestor’s central carbon metabolism is archaeal in cytosolic glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway and alphaproteobacterial in the mitochondrial TCA cycle
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1206	0	2	0	The mitochondrion was acquired late in eukaryogenesis, by a host whose proteome was already chimaeric, with genes from several bacterial sources acquired before it
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1208	0	2	0	Bacterial endosymbionts lose their cell-envelope and envelope-transport genes together below about 400 kb and begin to lose translation genes below about 200 kb, and the host supplies the membranes, transport and protein synthesis that the smallest-genome symbionts no longer encode, as for organelles
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1211	0	2	0	An endosymbiont becomes an organelle in steps: the host first targets effector proteins into it; an imported host protein redundant with one of its functions then lets the endosymbiont’s own gene decay, making it dependent; and a general import pathway, once evolved, brings in hundreds of proteins; this genetic integration arises only in permanent, vertically transmitted associations
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1213	0	2	2	In relational quantum mechanics as Di Biagio and Rovelli reformulate it, classical subsystems whose variables couple properly, so as to get correlated, come to agree, so that the merging of perspectives answers the combination problem and the facts held relative to different outside systems never conflict about the same variables
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1215	0	2	0	Besides Asgard archaea and the alphaproteobacterial ancestor of mitochondria, Myxococcota and Planctomycetota were major donors of genes to the eukaryotic lineage before its last common ancestor, in waves: Asgard first, then Planctomycetota before the mitochondrion, then the mitochondrial ancestor and Myxococcota together
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1216	0	2	2	Ill structured problems can be handled by an alternation between a solver working on a problem that is well structured at each moment and a recognition and retrieval system that keeps modifying the problem space from memory or the environment, a serial solver gains nothing by assembling the problem space at the outset, and nothing but the size of the knowledge base may separate ill from well structured problems, so that no qualitatively new mechanisms are needed
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1219	0	2	0	Buchnera’s metabolism interlocks with its aphid host’s: it makes the essential amino acids its host cannot from host-supplied glutamate and aspartate, depends on the host for the non-essential amino acids and its membrane phospholipids, and cannot live outside the bacteriocyte
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1222	0	2	2	In relational quantum mechanics as stated in Rovelli (1996), rules (i) and (ii), that there is no state except within a further observer’s information and no information without interaction, exclude any contradiction between observers’ views: what a third system predicts of two observers’ information always agrees with what it finds on interacting with them
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1223	0	2	0	Monocercomonoides exilis lost its mitochondrion only after the organelle’s essential functions had been removed in steps, Fe–S cluster assembly to a cytosolic SUF system and then the glycine cleavage system by loss, and the loss required no compensating change elsewhere in the cell
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1226	0	2	0	In Claude language models, a sparse set of residual-stream directions that a corpus-averaged Jacobian lens identifies as verbalizable (the J-space) is causally privileged for verbal report, for holding instructed concepts, for unspoken intermediate steps of reasoning and for passing one argument to many functions, while continuation, anomaly detection and line wrapping use the same information without routing through it; it carries workspace-like content only in a middle band of layers, holds on the order of tens of active directions and under a tenth of activation variance, and is amplified and relayed by the weights more than other directions
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1228	0	2	0	A bacterial endosymbiont becomes genetically integrated, an organelle, when host proteins imported into it replace genes it has lost, and this does not require gene transfer from the endosymbiont: in the Paulinella chromatophore and the nitroplast, the two systems with hundreds of imported proteins, the replacing genes are mostly the host’s own or come from other bacteria
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1229	0	2	0	Formal emergency powers, extraordinary powers functionally equivalent to them and emergency rhetoric are linked to the accelerated erosion or dismantling of democracy and to the consolidation of autocratic rule, though the convergence is not inevitable
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1230	0	2	0	In relational quantum mechanics, with facts fixed by interaction and the classical sum rule used only within one context or where facts are stable, facts relative to different systems never yield contradictory predictions in extended Wigner’s-friend scenarios, and a superobserver’s later facts agree with his friend’s
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1238	0	2	0	Disinformation incidents carried in STIX 2.1 as the DISINFOX mapping carries them are an interoperable representation that survives exchange between organisations, and sharing them in this form improves analysts’ correlation and exposure of incidents and their reuse of labels
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1172	0	1	0	Linear mode connectivity emerges during training, not at initialization: copies trained from a shared state become stable to SGD noise after 1.5–20% of training, and independently trained networks become linearly connected after alignment only gradually
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1199	0	1	1	Real-world games of skill have a spinning-top geometry: their non-transitive part, measured as Nash cluster size, is largest at intermediate strength and narrows toward the strongest and the weakest strategies
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1202	0	1	1	A securitised public keeps its routines by not attending to routine security practices, which keeps an anxiety about the threat latent rather than absent; when the security apparatus itself disrupts those routines the anxiety surfaces, and with it blame of the apparatus
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1207	0	1	0	Russian military writers of 2015–2020 use ‘hybrid war’ for a category of war marked off by its objective, reshaping a target state’s governance, geostrategic orientation and worldview, in which every action up to conventional military force is subordinate to an information campaign, and not, as in Western usage, for a set of means below the threshold of armed conflict
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1209	0	1	0	In genetically identical E. coli, a cell’s swarming potential is a transient inherited state: its descendants share it for about four generations and lose it by about seven, and it tracks the cell’s iron status rather than a bistable switch
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1212	0	1	0	In 30 four-person student groups discussing 15 choice dilemmas, a member’s self-reported closure to influence on the next issue rose with their influence over prior outcomes, increasingly so along the sequence, and the groups’ influence networks thinned and their discussions shortened while the rate of consensus did not change: evidence for a reflected-appraisal step by which influence concentrates in deliberating groups
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1217	0	1	1	Both owner ideology and favor exchange drove the Hungarian portal Origo’s reduced coverage of corruption in 2013–2016: favor exchange alone cut it by 29–44%, the new owner’s ideology alone by 63% after 2016, and the two together by 74%, so they are substitutes; and a ban on targeted government advertising would have raised it by 41–79%
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1218	0	1	1	In a sparsely-gated mixture-of-experts layer trained without balancing losses, the gate’s concentration on a few experts arises by self-reinforcement: favoured experts are trained more rapidly and so are selected still more
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1224	0	1	0	In Claude language models, projecting out the most active J-space directions in early workspace layers lowers the rate of felt, first-person, sensory language in the models’ narrations of their own processing and in their descriptions of another person’s experience, while norm-matched perturbations along other directions do not and the text stays coherent; so in these models the experiential register of report depends on the access-like workspace and is not specific to self-report
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1225	0	1	0	Among white Southerners today, those living in counties where a larger share of the 1860 population was enslaved are somewhat less Democratic, less supportive of affirmative action and more racially resentful, by about a tenth of a standard deviation per standard deviation of slave share, and colder toward black Americans, by about a third; the difference is not accounted for by the present black share of the population, and in voting it appeared after Reconstruction rather than before the war, which supports its origin in the incentives that emancipation gave planters to repress black labor and votes, and its local transmission thereafter
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1235	0	1	0	Losing a costly function whose product leaks to neighbours is favoured by ordinary individual selection in large free-living microbial populations, and the loss proceeds until the remaining producers just supply the community, so that most cells come to depend on a rare few with no relatedness, cooperation or collective required
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1237	0	1	1	Instructed reappraisal lowers reported negative affect to aversive pictures while the responses of the amygdala, periaqueductal gray, hypothalamus and other subcortical regions to the same pictures show evidence of no change; the regions it reduces are cortical, mainly higher visual and parietal
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1240	0	1	0	Trained, instruction-tuned and preference-tuned chat models keep the nature of the idealized fiction machine: what they assert follows the narrative coherence of the frame, role or story the conversation sets up, not a representation of truth that stays fixed across frames
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1241	0	1	0	Experienced Transcendental Meditation practitioners report more pure awareness than matched counting controls, and multivariate EEG separates the meditation period from counting and from rest, but the reports are not shown to track any EEG feature
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1242	0	1	1	In early-vision tasks, human performance varies across conditions as the information available at the retinal output does, while falling well below the retinal-stage ideal, so substantial losses lie in central factors
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1243	0	1	0	In incipient endosymbioses in nature, mutual dependence evolves ahead of reproductive cohesion, so that endosymbioses are more likely to be mutually dependent than cohesive
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1244	0	1	1	No access method is optimal on read, update and memory overhead at once: bounding any two of the three forces the third above a hard lower bound that cannot be further reduced
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1246	0	1	0	The so-called contentless goal-states of Shamatha, Transcendental and Stillness Meditation are neither truly contentless nor identical: they lack thoughts, perceptions, images and memories but keep wakefulness, calm, stillness, a non-conceptual knowing and the like, and they differ across the practices in attentional stability
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1173	0	0	0	Testimonial injustice is an ingenuous misjudgement of a speaker’s credibility caused by prejudice, not a deliberate manipulation of it, and it can be structural and pre-emptive, when a speaker’s word is never sought because of a structural prejudice that is no one’s fault
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1175	0	0	0	Between tests, implementation intentions in the contingent if-then format had larger effects than plans that schedule when, where and what without linking cue to response (d = .43 against .29); rehearsing the plan once raised the effect, keeping a copy to revisit lowered it (.31 against .44), and adding how or for how long to a time-and-place cue roughly halved it
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1177	0	0	0	For experiments on a finite parameter set, being at least as informative for every decision problem is the same as being able to simulate the other by a randomisation
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1178	0	0	0	In slices of striatum, visual and prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, Hebbian co-activation leaves a synaptic eligibility trace, lasting about 1 s in striatum, 3 to 10 s in cortex and about 2 s in CA1, that a later neuromodulator or plateau potential converts into a weight change and whose sign it can set: experimental support for three-factor learning rules on behavioural time scales
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1179	0	0	0	In an active-inference model of post-traumatic context inference, an overly precise prior that one is in a harmful context makes exploratory sampling look uninformative, so the agent attenuates the periphery, never receives the evidence that would correct the prior, and the belief sustains itself; lowering precision removes the symptoms without correcting the prior
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1180	0	0	0	In foraging tasks, higher stress or anxiety goes consistently with less exploration, and in one task with a predator to check for, people higher in somatic anxiety checked less and did worse, a reduction associated with greater aversion to detecting the predator
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1181	0	0	0	The content of a crowd-built r/place artwork is decided off the canvas, in negotiation through shared design images, where a few central members admit or refuse additions, and carried out by placers who mostly never join the discussion, so the placement record shows the outcome of coordination but not who directed it or who cooperated
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1182	0	0	0	Across seven computational learning studies selected without a systematic search, anxiety goes with altered adjustment of learning rate to uncertainty, mostly for aversive outcomes, while overall learning rate, choice consistency and outcome valuation show little relation to it
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1183	0	0	0	Crowd-maintained r/place images persist as an equilibrium of attack and repair, and their abrupt overthrow is preceded by several distinct precursors, including the defenders’ own conduct, rather than by one generic warning signal, while many overthrows give no warning
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1184	0	0	0	In three laboratory studies of healthy humans, offering a costless avoidance response for a stimulus never paired with the aversive outcome led people to use it, and withdrawing the response then raised their expectancy of the outcome for that stimulus; signalling of the response is a confound
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1185	0	0	0	Merging models trained on different tasks from different initialisations fails where their features have no counterpart in the other model, and such features grow more common with depth
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1186	0	0	0	Across computational studies of exploration in reward-based bandit tasks, mostly in sub-clinical samples and not yet replicated, directed exploration tends to rise with trait or cognitive anxiety and to fall with state or somatic anxiety
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1187	0	0	0	Along a low-loss linear path between two networks, every layer’s features are the interpolation of the endpoints’ features
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1188	0	0	0	Once the architecture’s symmetries are factored out, most of the linear barrier between independently trained solutions disappears; the group that matters is the full one, permutations for MLPs and CNNs but for transformers also an orthogonal map on the residual stream, without which a barrier remains; and the barrier left after alignment falls with width
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1189	0	0	0	In laboratory avoidance learning in healthy humans, an avoidance response that remains available during extinction persists, in some participants for hundreds of unpunished trials, and keeps expectancy of the aversive outcome higher than in people denied it; the more effective and the cheaper the response, the slower it extinguishes
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1190	0	0	0	In a Markov decision process, an agent that evaluates actions as if it will fail to avoid danger at later steps, while in fact choosing optimally at each step, spreads threat value to states far from the danger and avoids early and widely, which reproduces qualitatively exaggerated threat appraisal, fear generalization and several laboratory findings associated with anxiety
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1191	0	0	0	In a simulated active inference agent, a habit learned by counting the agent’s own state transitions and policy choices emerges from goal-directed behaviour, and once acquired it persists, and reinforces itself, after the reward is devalued, while an agent devalued before acquisition switches at once
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1192	0	0	0	Across 642 experimental tests to September 2019, forming implementation intentions reliably improved behaviour, cognitive performance, affect regulation and social judgement, but publication bias was substantial: the pooled d = .36 falls to a model-averaged d = .15 under robust Bayesian meta-analysis, with large heterogeneity
2026-10-30	Proposed	THEORY-1193	0	0	0	How far fear falls during an extinction or exposure session, or across sessions, does not predict how much fear is expressed at follow-up, in animals, human laboratory samples and fearful human samples
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1286	0	11	4	Affect is not transmitted from one body or event to another; it is reactivated anew in each event, and bodies cued by the same event are attuned to it differentially rather than made alike
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1283	0	9	2	Micropolitics is the modulation of a relational field toward a maximally inclusive co-patterning of contrasting tendencies, in which each realizes itself without curtailing the others; the co-patterning is aesthetic, an affirmation of discord rather than its resolution
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1275	0	5	4	In the toy model of superposition, SGD’s transitions have Bayesian counterparts whose critical sample sizes rise in the order training meets them, yet SGD was not seen to take the posterior’s main transition and ends in a phase the posterior has left at the training sample size
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1263	0	4	0	In on-policy self-distillation of language-model reasoning, a privileged-context teacher’s advantage is concentrated on the student’s failed trajectories and is smaller at larger scale, and restricting supervision to the student’s verified trajectories, with the student’s own failed attempt as the teacher’s context, keeps the gain over the base model where standard on-policy self-distillation loses it
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1271	0	3	3	Mossio, Montévil and Longo argue that closure of constraints both stabilizes and propagates variation: it regenerates each constraint beyond the time scale at which it is conserved, and removes a variation only if the variation does not reach the constraints that regenerate the varied one; when it does reach them, the variation propagates and the system either loses closure and disintegrates or comes to realize a new closure, which they say a rock, a flame or a table cannot do
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1272	0	3	0	Late in training, SGD weights drift sub-diffusively, with displacement growing as a power of training time set by a spectral dimension and the local learning coefficient
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1262	0	2	0	In multi-token-prediction pre-training at 167M to 1.2B parameters, the part of the MTP gradient that pulls toward the sampled target carries about four-fifths of the MTP gradient reaching the shared trunk with roughly a quarter of the signal-to-noise ratio of the self-distillation part, and removing it from the trunk improves next-token loss, speculative decoding and zero-shot accuracy by small margins
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1281	0	2	2	Montréal School CCO’s commitment to interaction as the basis of organizing makes conversation analysis its method of choice, and that commitment keeps ventriloquism from serving as an open metamodel for communication theory
2026-10-31	Proposed	THEORY-1251	0	1	1	Mossio, Montévil and Longo take organization, as closure of constraints, to be a theoretical principle of biology, posited a priori as physics posits its phase space and defining the domain together with variation, so that every system meeting both is biological by definition and organisms are one class of such systems; on this reading “organisms are organized” is constitutive, not an empirical finding, and the principle is to be judged by what it makes intelligible
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1299	0	8	0	Pure awareness, on Metzinger’s account, is the content of a temporally thin model of the organism’s own tonic alertness, its capacity to know; experience in this minimal form lacks an egoic self-model, a first-person perspective, time, space and even phenomenal oneness, but not self-modelling, and tonic alertness that is not so modelled is not experienced
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1292	0	6	1	Whether a coupled oscillator sustains its own rhythm or is a damped oscillator driven from outside is settled directly by removing the drive, and, because the two arrangements are not dynamically equivalent, may also show in how they respond to a shift of phase: in Leise and Siegelmann’s model, damped peripheral clocks regain their phase relation to the central clock quickly, while self-sustained ones take longer, need strong coupling, and sometimes resynchronize by a long delay instead of an advance
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1298	0	5	2	When mental control returns after mind-wandering, the self-model represents the return as the person’s own act whether or not the person’s control system caused it, because it must bridge to earlier control to keep the autobiographical self-model continuous
2026-11-01	Proposed	THEORY-1291	0	1	0	Within levels of mechanisms, apparent top-down and bottom-up causes can be read as mechanistically mediated effects, intralevel causation among components together with the constitution of the whole by them, so that the relation between levels is constitution and not causation; Craver and Bechtel show the translation for six cases, on the assumption, not argued, that every higher-level cause has a mechanistic explanation
2026-11-02	Proposed	THEORY-1343	0	7	0	The first-order picture in which a small integral of motion Q of a many-body Hamiltonian is, under weak local noise, the slowest Lindbladian eigenoperator holds at large system size whenever its leak ε out of span{Q} satisfies ε ≲ γ ≪ 1, because the gap controlling the perturbation is not the exponentially small level spacing but one of order min(γL, √(v_Bγ)), set by the ballistic growth of the operators Q leaks into
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1314	0	22	0	Contextual emergence, on which an emergent phenomenon’s parts are necessary but not sufficient, needs a functional boundary between the phenomenon and its context, without which the context could be folded into the base and the account collapse into weak emergence or global supervenience; and the subject of attention is contextually emergent in this sense, its boundary being the skull, meninges and brain stem, so that its macro-level patterns constrain micro-level activity with a power that is not reducible to the parts and needs neither downward nor circular causation
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1311	0	13	0	The BPNSFS frustration scales measure low need satisfaction in negatively keyed form, not need frustration in the sense of active thwarting, so the separation of frustration from low satisfaction in BPNSFS data, and frustration’s stronger link to ill-being there, is largely a keying artefact
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1302	0	6	0	Sánchez-Cañizares reinterprets Irruption Theory for binary decisions (IAT*): irruption is the onset of a landscape with one attractor per option and absorption the passage to a single attractor, both correlated in mind and brain, reversing the sign of Froese’s variance hypothesis; the mind’s causal role is to set the landscape’s control parameters by “selecting the relevant physical coarse-graining”, not to push the state, so on this account the mind controls which outcomes exist and not which one the state reaches
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1321	0	6	0	Froese proposes that irruptions combined with attunement, modelled on Watson et al.’s self-optimization of a Hopfield network by occasional resets to arbitrary states plus Hebbian learning, answer the libertarian’s randomness challenge, how behaviour can be effective though underdetermined; but in the model offered the resets are arbitrary, so what makes the behaviour effective is the learned attractor landscape, and nothing in it distinguishes a motivated irruption from noise
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1306	0	4	0	In hierarchically organized systems, levels are demarcated by sharp discontinuities in characteristic process and relaxation rates, the embedding level being slower than its components, and a level controls another by constraint only while their rates stay separated: when the cycling rates converge, the control asymmetry and the distinction between the levels are lost, whatever the signal amplitude; Juarrero’s statement of Salthe’s and Allen and Starr’s hierarchy theory
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1308	0	3	0	In Chen et al.’s student samples from Belgium, China, the USA and Peru, need satisfaction related to life satisfaction and vitality and need frustration to depressive symptoms with no detectable difference across countries, and neither relation was moderated by how much a person valued or desired the need
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1319	0	3	0	In Niemiec, Ryan and Deci’s post-college sample, attaining intrinsic aspirations went with more well-being and less ill-being, and attaining extrinsic aspirations, entered alongside it, added nothing to well-being and went with more ill-being; the extrinsic null is a unique-variance result, since alone extrinsic attainment correlated positively with well-being and need satisfaction
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1325	0	3	0	In Chirkov et al.’s student samples from South Korea, Russia, Turkey and the USA, the more autonomous people’s reasons for engaging in practices of any cultural orientation, collectivist and vertical included, the higher their well-being, with no detectable difference across countries or genders; and vertical practices were much less internalized than horizontal ones
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1326	0	3	0	In Voigt’s model of hard decisions, when two options are valued equally the value differential is too small to choose (conflict, dACC), and the tie is broken during the choice by fixation: precuneus allocates spatial attention bottom-up to the salient item and dlPFC holds it in working memory, which both settles the choice and raises that item’s value, a change that lasts only if the choice is remembered (hippocampus)
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1328	0	3	2	Kane answers the luck objection by making indeterminism a hindrance inside goal-directed effort rather than a cause on its own: in a self-forming action the agent makes two competing efforts, each meeting the indeterminacy as interference from the other, so whichever succeeds is a willed success for which the agent is responsible; indeterminism lessens the agent’s control but not its responsibility, and what responsibility needs is macro-control of processes involving many neurons, not control of each
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1336	0	3	0	In a cart-pole whose only given utility is 10-step empowerment, a controller that greedily picks the action leading to the more empowered successor balances the pole upright, though the states of highest empowerment lie off-centre and cannot be reached or sustained under the agent’s own dynamics; what the agent can keep is not where empowerment is highest
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1324	0	2	0	In Ryan, Mims and Koestner’s experiment, the same expected reward for doing well left less later free-choice engagement when given with controlling feedback than with informational feedback, and in both styles less than no reward with the same feedback: the interpersonal style of a performance-contingent reward changes its effect, and the reward lowers intrinsic motivation even when the information it carries is held fixed
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1329	0	2	1	On Kane’s account, self-forming actions occur under motivational conflict, when tension moves the relevant brain regions away from thermodynamic equilibrium, “a kind of stirring up of chaos” that makes them sensitive to micro-indeterminacy at the neuronal level, so that the choice is undetermined
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1334	0	2	0	Persona shifts induced by prompting and by finetuning are mediated by the same linear trait directions, so finetuning on data that implies a trait moves the model along the trait’s persona vector as a system prompt would; Chen et al. suspect personas are latent factors that persist across many tokens
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1339	0	2	0	In multi-turn conversations a chat model’s persona is not fixed for the episode: its position along the Assistant Axis is set mainly by the most recent user message (ridge R² 0.53–0.77 from message embeddings) rather than by where it was before (R² 0.10 for the change), so that therapy-like and AI-philosophy conversations drift away from the Assistant and coding and writing ones do not
2026-11-03	Proposed	THEORY-1340	0	1	0	Training forms a task-defined, low-dimensional subregion of prefrontal and premotor population activity (a preparatory subspace, an axis of choice organized as a line attractor) that constrains a monkey’s delayed response top down, holding behavior to what the task requires while the trial’s cue and evidence select within it; Juarrero’s reading of Churchland et al. 2012 and Mante, Sussillo et al. 2013 as governing constraints and as neural correlates of prior and proximate intentions
2026-11-04	Proposed	THEORY-1351	0	3	0	In West, Fisher, Gardner and Kiers’s account, a transition in individuality is defined by two separable conditions, mutual dependence (parts that once replicated alone can replicate only within the larger unit) and negligible within-group conflict, and proceeds by forming a cooperative group and then transforming it, with no clear border between the steps; across transitions what explains them is an ecological benefit to cooperation together with group formation that unites the members’ interests (clonal bottlenecks, lifetime monogamy, vertical transmission of clonal symbionts), while kin discrimination and the repression of competition played relatively minor roles

ADRs

2 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-10-22	Deferred	ADR-050	0	5	0	A claim that calls something organized, a perspective, an agent, effective, exhausted, constituted or grounded says which sense, target or criterion it means
2026-11-04	Proposed	ADR-068	0	4	0	Reading and filing follow a written protocol: its invariants are held in this decision, and its steps in a skill that changes with practice

QUESTIONs

8 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-10-04	Deferred	QUESTION-009	0	51	1	When does a pattern of coordination constitute an additional agent?
2026-10-04	Deferred	QUESTION-011	0	12	2	What makes a will-organization the agent’s own, rather than merely effective within it?
2026-10-05	Deferred	QUESTION-007	0	13	2	What grounds normativity across agents that share an environment and a level of organization?
2026-10-08	Deferred	QUESTION-008	0	19	0	Is pragmatic fidelity a form of approximate bisimulation between communicative systems, and which parts of their update structure must it preserve?
2026-10-12	Deferred	QUESTION-059	0	42	9	Does a state that meets a functional characterization of affect thereby have to be felt, or does feeling need a mechanism, such as a body acting on the neurons that map it, that an organization lacks?
2026-10-12	Deferred	QUESTION-061	0	19	4	In a brain, is conscious access one exclusive broadcast that reaches every specialised processor at once, or can a content be accessed by some consumers and not others?
2026-10-12	Deferred	QUESTION-068	0	5	0	Would settling whose a will-organization is settle the agent’s accountability for what it does, or does accountability need conditions, such as normative competence and avoidability, that ownership does not supply?
2026-10-12	Deferred	QUESTION-057	0	1	0	Can the integration that marks a will-organization as the agent’s own be detected apart from the agent’s own avowal that her commitments are hers?

CLAIMs

204 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-10-04	Proposed	CLAIM-039	8	38	10	Affective states can be properties of organized systems, characterized functionally as Frijda characterizes emotions, without implying subjective experience
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-151	6	129	5	Which communicative act an utterance performs is partly constituted by its relations to participant roles, norms and expected uptake, so a transformation that changes those relations can change the act and not only its realization
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-440	6	144	39	An organization’s appraisal is the negotiation among its perspectives, a common currency is that negotiation’s admitting an ordering of the options it faces, and goal-conduciveness valence is a regime in which an ordering of the organization’s own states by their bearing on its maintenance prevails in the negotiation; so valence presupposes contested rankings, not frustrated demands, its sign is whether the organization runs ahead of or behind a reference course along the potential ordering, its intensity is how far the negotiation’s decisions follow that ordering, and ambivalence, where no ordering prevails, differs from neutrality, where one prevails and the organization keeps to its course
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-142	5	81	14	Two communicative realizations can agree on every probe in a restricted family without being structurally identical, so observational equivalence is relative to the probes, and only independently justified probes evaluated on held-out cases are evidence that structure was preserved
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-169	5	25	6	On Ainslie’s account the population of interests is produced by desynchronized valuation, not given by a fixed architecture: an agent is many interests over a choice only as far as its valuations of that choice cross within the choice’s horizon
2026-10-09	Proposed	CLAIM-082	3	49	3	A term’s value, as distinct from its signification, is fixed by its contrasts with the coexisting terms of its system
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-354	3	40	14	Freedom of will and autonomy come in degrees along several dimensions, among them viable reachability, control cost, robustness to disturbance, governance reconfigurability, revisability and motivational integration, and agents compare by inclusion of what they can viably reach under matched conditions: a partial order with incomparable pairs, not a scalar, and a gradient only of a declared measure
2026-10-04	Deferred	CLAIM-016	2	32	4	An organized agent’s will is its own to the degree that its operative commitments arise through, remain integrated with, and are answerable to its constitutive organization
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-091	2	47	3	A translation can reach pragmatic equivalence by compensating for changed social coordinates with changed linguistic ones, so lexical infidelity can be required for pragmatic fidelity
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-004	2	29	4	Not every difference between translations is a difference of frame: some change the act being framed
2026-10-09	Proposed	CLAIM-090	2	16	2	Serial transmission is reconstructive and filtered by the transmitters’ inductive biases, so a stable endpoint can be far from the ancestral utterance while remaining interpretable
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-157	2	157	23	Relative to a stated target, a combined form is one system while its joint dynamics are nearly decomposable with the form as a block whose gap beats the Occam factor, and it lasts as long as that block persists; the unit is the gap-isolated block, not any member
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-170	2	34	2	The agents in a system are a factorization of it relative to a level of description and a target; agents in general are identified by adaptation, and willed agents are individuated by their will-organization: a willed agent is the jurisdiction of a will-organization
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-182	2	25	1	Storage is not anchoring, addressability is: a structure that is kept but cannot be pointed at part by part does not stop re-derivation, and the same content becomes an anchor once its parts get addresses
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-178	2	14	6	A manuscript should be a view over the argument and not its only copy: a draft written straight from an exchange drops commitments and changes its thesis without saying so, and both become visible only against a record where claims carry status and inclusion separately
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-286	2	12	3	Habit, akrasia, rumination, rigidity and insight can be modelled as regimes of one organization, in which processes transform shared meaning and allocate one another’s influence, with trust, specialization and higher-level agency arising from its history and not imposed
2026-10-21	Proposed	CLAIM-404	2	64	6	An organization can be governed from outside without any of its decisions being made for it, through the evidence its own procedures receive or through the criteria by which they weigh evidence; the two routes are distinct and each is possible without the other, so informational and evaluative independence do not imply each other; and where the organization’s role is to evaluate another that affects its evidence or resources, the interpretation–authority loop can close between the two institutions, so that formal independence of the evaluator’s procedure does not make its evaluation independent
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-437	2	23	14	’Wanting’ and ‘liking’ are saliences relative to different, overlapping processes, pursuit and consummation, each ranking states by their bearing on its own concerns; valence is then relative to a perspective, every perspective in the negotiation has its own, the system’s valence is that of the perspective whose ordering is the negotiation’s potential, and ambivalence is strong saliences of opposite sign with no potential absorbing them
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-523	2	16	7	For a normatively relevant discrepancy to change what an organization does, three distinct achievements are needed and any can fail while the others hold: legibility, by which the discrepancy becomes recognizable; volitional efficacy, by which a corresponding demand can move action; and correctability, by which a fitting revision can be carried out within deadline and resources; none establishes that the demand or the revision is justified, and whether the norm-satisfying histories the agent can still realize are empty depends partly on what its earlier actions destroyed
2026-11-02	Proposed	CLAIM-533	2	32	1	The sensitivity that formal chaos gives a will’s dynamics is not control over them: in Kane’s self-forming actions, chaotic amplification keeps the outcome open, but it magnifies the agent’s efforts, uncontrolled fluctuations and outside inputs alike, so what would make the outcome the agent’s is how its own control couples to the amplifying directions, relative to noise and to other parties’ inputs and with what feedback, which sensitivity does not supply; and under weak noise what amplification touches lasts only where it reaches the slow modes
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-068	1	41	3	Repeated reconstruction is attraction toward conventional regions of communicative possibility: pragmatic stances, not only lexicon and grammar, can be stabilized by transmission
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-034	1	28	2	Fidelity is one evaluative goal among adaptation, critique and parody, and a deliberately adaptive translation calls for one-way simulation of the source’s relevant possibilities rather than equivalence
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-029	1	17	3	A language model’s response to a context is functionally a parameterized pragmatic frame
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-052	1	10	4	Interpretive framing operations generally do not commute, and this can be investigated without committing to quantum probability
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-220	1	69	34	For a named population of receivers and a stated family of tasks, what survives a translation, retelling or rendering is the set of task-relevant communicative distinctions those receivers can still recover from it, and measured preservation of the pragmatic observables predicts that recovery better than preservation of the wording or of the proposition, with or without its force
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-137	1	44	3	A communicative kind is identified by an invariant that does not depend on any one realization, as a group character identifies a representation up to isomorphism, once one symmetry group is identified across the realizations by its action on the situation and not by labels of a medium, so that invariant has classificatory priority over any particular realization
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-217	1	41	1	For a communicative kind, the standard of sufficiency is the uptake of competent participants who know the standings and norms in play: a defeasible standard, overridden only where the act’s other constituents diverge from the judges’ verdicts, so a probe family is tested against it, and a kind outruns the families coarser than that standard and the judges only through those constituents
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-138	1	34	2	The Newman objection is the collapse objection at the level of ontology, and the remedy offered for both, independently specified relations, concedes that relational structure alone does not fix communicative identity
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-242	1	21	7	The use-level counterpart of Saussure’s value is an utterance’s contrast with the alternatives its speaker could have used in context; values do not cross between languages, which is why fidelity is graded transport through an anchored correspondence rather than identity of value
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-174	1	68	12	A candidate factor is an agent at a level when it is one system there, when a goal-directed description beats a device description by more than the Occam cost, and when its policy would adapt if its actions’ consequences changed; it is a willed agent when, further, a will-organization over several regimes describes it better than none, and what passes that is the jurisdiction of a will-organization
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-185	1	54	7	The nucleation threshold of an argument is whatever makes a structure persist: a persistent structure is available as an anchor, and more complex structure can evolve only on anchors
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-162	1	42	6	In flow an activity’s immediate reward and its longer-run value coincide, so no interest has to be overridden (synchronization as non-crossing valuations, with no dynamical mechanism claimed), and that is why focused action in flow is reported as effortless
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-181	1	41	6	The record fixes the grammar an argument is expressed in, though not its shape: its closed vocabulary of schemes, roles and relations formalizes early, and a move that fits no CLAIM, TERM, ARG or declared relation is forced into one or lost until the misfit is noticed and the grammar amended to hold it
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-160	1	26	3	Data written for a potential future receiver has its intended meaning fixed by the write: even if it is never read, what it was meant to say was settled when it was stored
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-263	1	18	5	Whether two trained networks compute the same way can be tested by quotienting the architecture’s full symmetry group and measuring what remains: a barrier that survives alignment marks a different mechanism, connection after alignment means shared feature structure, and the test cannot run where features have no counterpart
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-271	1	16	8	A collective’s reasons need not be any of its members’ reasons, so aggregating members’ conclusions, as polling does, can yield verdicts the collective’s own reasons do not support
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-315	1	9	7	In comparative anchoring tasks, considering an anchor shifts the later numerical estimate without adding evidence about the target, and the shift is carried by anchor-consistent knowledge made more accessible; the shift is established, the accessibility step is inferred and has not been measured
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-317	1	5	3	Self-presentations that differ by audience do no harm while the audiences are kept apart; people keep them apart and script the occasions where they must meet, and broadcast and networked media bring them together unchosen, which is when the presentations collide
2026-10-16	Proposed	CLAIM-336	1	11	4	The pragmatic-transport and will-organization lines describe one model, an organization of operators that act on a shared interpretive state under a context while allocating one another’s influence: a frame is the context under which operators act, a judgement is the response they yield, an action-generating regime is an operator or coalition, and a will-organization is the dynamics that allocates influence among them
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-358	1	42	19	Learned local accommodation can reduce the amortized cost of recurrent arbitration: where a recurring conflict among an agent’s processes admits a stable accommodation, settling it among the processes can cost less over repeated encounters than escalating each instance to a higher-level process that mediates or overrides, though local negotiation and the relations it needs are not free
2026-10-22	Proposed	CLAIM-415	1	41	4	A person can be organized by a judgement they attribute to a collective that does not hold it: the audience in a self-model can be a false unity, and a judgement can shape a person who rejects it, because resisting it makes it consequential
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-446	1	119	14	Some persistent anxiety may be governance-maintained rather than belief-maintained: anticipated threat grants defensive processes authority over action, attention and evidence acquisition; under the avoidance that authority selects, the hypotheses that the situation is dangerous and that it is safe predict the same observation, so repeated safety need not correct the threat estimate; relief reinforces the defense without being evidence of danger; and the regime can outlast a corrected belief, its pathology, where present, being defensive authority insensitive to corrective evidence at avoidable cost
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-477	1	56	16	Relata stand to relations as realizations stand to specifications: what an entity is, is partly fixed by the constraints on the configurations of entities and relations it can enter, and those constraints are themselves realized and maintained by something, so neither relata nor relations, nor specifications nor realizations, are prior without qualification
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-476	1	47	14	Beyond what it does operationally, luria is an apparatus in Barad’s constitutive sense for the objects of a record, and only for them: the record’s objects are constituted, and not only made referable and governable, by the distinctions its grammar enacts, so that the same authored material is a different set of objects under a revised apparatus, and the record’s own inquiry reconstitutes the apparatus that constitutes them
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-483	1	5	2	An argument developed with collaborators who keep no memory fails mainly at identity and not at structure, so that coding what recurs, not argument mapping, is the remedy, and this holds beyond one owner and one assistant family
2026-10-28	Proposed	CLAIM-486	1	15	1	A rendering can keep the communicative act while changing the proposition, so preserving the proposition is not necessary for preserving the communicative event
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-519	1	20	3	Competent behaviour does not establish an internal world model: over a fixed interface and a finite horizon, an agent with no model, whose actions are looked up from the history so far, reproduces the interaction distribution of an agent that has one exactly; a policy can identify predictive structure without any particular internal component realizing it, so compression and generalization support comparing candidate architectures, and establishing an internal mechanism needs evidence that discriminates candidate implementations, such as targeted interventions
2026-11-02	Proposed	CLAIM-545	1	7	0	Freedom of will, in the operational sense, is an agent’s governance of its own governability: the extent to which its own organization makes the relevant distinctions legible, gives the demands they raise practical efficacy, directs its transitions, and revises the relations that govern those three, including under another’s interference; openness, sensitivity and controllability of outcomes each fall short of it, and domination is another’s capacity to govern those same relations, used or not
2026-10-04	Proposed	CLAIM-024	0	26	10	Nothing here is new but a question: planning theory, control theory, executive control and institutional theory already study every mechanism the account names, and where the account has been set beside the expected value of control and Ainslie’s interests it differs only in asking what governs how the driver changes rather than who drives, a question those mechanisms may answer without it
2026-10-04	Deferred	CLAIM-003	0	14	0	A global workspace need not give every subsystem the same access: access is compartmented in brains as in organizations, so “global” overstates it
2026-10-05	Deferred	CLAIM-096	0	6	0	Where several agents share an environment, the realization of one agent’s will changes the conditions under which others can realize theirs, and that interaction is itself a normative object
2026-10-05	Deferred	CLAIM-104	0	6	0	Authenticity grounds normativity downward, from an encompassing agent to its constituents, but not across agents at one level
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-105	0	62	5	In documented reconstruction chains, steps that keep most local judgements commonly change their global compatibility: translation preserves local meanings while changing the global structure of meaning
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-119	0	37	3	Communicative categories form a concept lattice rather than a hierarchy: categories such as affectionate teasing and sarcastic condemnation share attributes and differ in a few social-relational constraints
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-087	0	34	3	Cross-modal reconstruction often improves a receiver’s access to an implicit communicative relation beyond the text-only baseline, as when posture or expression conveys solidarity better than the source text’s literal content, though a rendering made without the situation is a garbling and cannot improve what an ideal receiver could do
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-117	0	26	4	Pragmatic fidelity requires preserving the dynamics of interpretation, not only final judgements: a good transport approximately intertwines source and target framing operations under a correspondence anchored to independently measured distinctions
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-005	0	24	0	Pragmatic fidelity is the match between distributions of context-indexed communicative judgements across a correspondence of source and target contexts, not the similarity of one canonical meaning vector; the match constrains a translation only once one outcome correspondence is fixed across many items, and summed over source contexts alone it charges for loss and not for addition
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-059	0	21	7	Repeated reconstruction chains fall into different regimes under conditions assigned in advance, contracting toward conventions, accumulating neutrally or amplifying, and amplification needs a metric other than total variation, an enlarged state or state-dependent dynamics
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-078	0	20	3	The theory succeeds if its observational and decision measures predict changes of communicative identity that text similarity misses and follow its compositional predictions across reconstructions; it needs neither quantum contextuality nor exact Noether laws
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-111	0	20	0	A text supports a distribution over possible communicative situations, and a translation can be faithful by preserving that distribution and its response to further evidence
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-009	0	19	3	Pragmatic judgements may be formally contextual: their context-relative distributions may admit no global extension once direct context effects are accounted for
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-084	0	17	0	Lexical similarity cannot distinguish preservation of communicative footing from a change of speech-act function, so the primary outcome of a reconstruction study is pragmatic-frame retention judged blind to condition, once a measure of footing and stance has been shown reliable
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-044	0	16	7	Ambiguity and contextuality are different phenomena: an ambiguous utterance admits several compatible global assignments, a contextual one admits none
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-063	0	13	2	A transport that approximately intertwines each framing operation approximately preserves their commutator, so the degree to which interpretive perspectives interfere can itself be part of what a translation preserves; on observed responses that degree is the order effect, which the intertwining defects bound only with a readout defect added and which the data identify only through observational distortion
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-054	0	10	0	A translation can preserve interpretive content while failing as a social act: interpretive and performative fidelity come apart
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-076	0	10	0	Cross-modal chains expose reconstruction because media differ in expressive affordances, and each interpreter, such as a captioner, may add motives and relations that were not present
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-058	0	9	0	Context-conditioned language models give a controlled computational setting in which the theory’s frame, order and transport effects can be tested before human studies
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-092	0	9	0	Translation can be posed as a context-indexed information bottleneck: compress the source while preserving information about the responses in each measurement context separately
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-014	0	8	3	Krifka’s performative updates fix which changes in conversational standing count, and Blackwell comparison tests whether a rendering preserves the information needed to recover them
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-033	0	7	2	In published translations, renderings that lose distinctions along one dimension commonly gain specificity along another, so loss is not one-dimensional
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-103	0	7	2	Symmetry is not opposed to transport: exact symmetries are the invertible core of a nested family of transports, and their main use is to supply the invariants against which non-symmetric transports are assessed
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-001	0	5	1	The conditional-diffusion literature already covers directed transport between observational scenarios, including changing covers
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-095	0	5	0	Anticipated objections are better met by precise definitions, constructions and results than by hedges
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-114	0	2	0	Drift along a reconstruction chain can be marked by a pragmatic phase change, the first generation at which a different communicative configuration dominates, which per-step error in surface content does not show
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-064	0	1	1	A translation reconstructs not only what is said but the situation of its saying
2026-10-08	Proposed	CLAIM-007	0	0	0	In a bridge or chain of progressive reconstruction the path itself is observable: which constraints survive early, which are introduced late, and which relations emerge only through refinement
2026-10-09	Proposed	CLAIM-127	0	50	9	Conditioning on a communicative situation, intervening on it and intervening on what the interpreter is told are three different operations, so a framing intervention should index the empirical model, e_C^a = P(Y_C
2026-10-09	Proposed	CLAIM-037	0	31	3	Formal contextuality is a failure of global extension, distinct from ordinary context dependence, and needs Contextuality-by-Default when marginals shift with context
2026-10-09	Proposed	CLAIM-013	0	12	1	Existing text-to-image benchmarks evaluate object presence, attributes and whether spatial or interactive relations are depicted, not the stance, social alignment or uptake an image conveys, and need extending to pragmatically consequential relations and social uptake
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-204	0	54	13	A communicative kind’s identity is grounded in its relational organization, for which competent participants’ uptake is the standard; statistical methods recover aspects of it from restricted observations; translation transports it; and what persists is what the receivers can still recover, of which the analyst can certify the independently identifiable part
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-136	0	52	4	Communicative acts and their participants exist as relata but have no identity beyond what their relations differentiate: non-eliminative structural realism without primitive identity
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-221	0	45	4	The relational-constitution thesis’s defeat condition describes a standard rival the record holds no counter for, intention-based accounts of illocution, which plausibly meet it for every act in the four-speakers case except the institutional one
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-202	0	43	3	What the line adds to functional and relevance-theoretic accounts of translation is measured structure beyond a static pragmatic profile: the context-indexed profile, its response to later framings and its decision relevance predict receivers’ recovery beyond the similarity of static stance and footing ratings
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-201	0	40	3	Over a fixed scenario, a change of global compatibility at small local distortion needs contextual judgements, which the behavioural data read so far lack; the form of the headline those data leave open is a change of cover, in which a rendering makes some of the source’s questions undecidable for its readers and decides others the source left open
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-228	0	38	0	D_obs restated over a rendering procedure, with one kernel family fitted on some source items and scored on held-out ones and the target term the readers’ response averaged over the procedure’s output, separates rendering procedures that receivers’ task-indexed recovery separates, so restated it measures observational fidelity informatively
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-128	0	34	4	No single ranking of translations holds across tasks: where distortion profiles trade off, only a task’s priorities rank them, and the theory of fidelity fixes no weighting
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-129	0	26	1	A factorization recovers only the structure visible in the relations it is fitted to, so a topic can survive a transformation that changes the communicative act, and a kind must be tested against probe families chosen for their bearing on the act
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-206	0	22	4	If a communicative kind can outrun every probe, human same-kind judgements, themselves one probe family, can neither confirm nor defeat the October thesis; if it cannot, the kind does in the tests only what an observational class does, which the record’s term for a kind says it is not
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-212	0	20	6	Fidelity as a report and fidelity as a re-performance are different decision targets: Blackwell’s order compares a rendering with its source as evidence about the source’s situation, which both readers decide about, while a rendering that re-performs the act in the target’s situation is compared only through a correspondence of situations
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-258	0	20	5	Blackwell’s order compares experiments about one parameter, so it does not reach the normal translation case: source and target readers decide about situations with changed coordinates, and where the state is common a translator with context knowledge yields a rendering that is not a garbling of the source, which the order typically leaves incomparable with it and about which the direction the manuscript uses is silent
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-244	0	19	4	The defeat tests take one holistic, task-free judgement of fidelity as ground truth, though the line’s own theses say fidelity is task-relative, interpreter-relative and not a single ranking
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-147	0	18	1	A trope is a family of observational profiles joined by admissible transformations around a core of preserved relations, so trope instances can separate structural preservation from pragmatic preservation
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-209	0	18	3	Probes and statistical models recover only the distinctions identifiable from the relational evidence they are given, and a signature sufficient for a stated family of communicative decisions outside the observed probes can be identified when the full latent factorization is not
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-240	0	17	9	A holistic fidelity judgement is fidelity under the judges’ default task, a weighting of the profile’s components that can be estimated on some renderings and tested on others, so it is well defined and consistent with task-relativity, and a defeat condition that uses it must name the population and fix the weighting before the test, and across populations with unequal access to the source must fit the weighting only on the components each can perceive
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-134	0	13	3	A non-eliminative structural realism that keeps relata but denies them any intrinsic identity-fixing feature is the position Chakravartty’s dilemma targets, and granting numerical plurality without relational differentiation, as A194 and A198 do, concedes a non-relational ground of identity
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-224	0	12	0	Under partial relational constitution, a translation always changes the participants, audience and norms that the relational-constitution thesis makes constituents of the act, so whether the act survives turns on a correspondence of relations the structure cannot supply from inside
2026-10-10	Proposed	CLAIM-215	0	6	3	Communicative kinds are repeatable organizations of relations among participants, norms, commitments and possible consequences, which concrete events realize without being one another, and which kind an event realizes is not exhausted by the intrinsic properties of the expression token
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-186	0	44	4	How fast an argument grows sets how it grows: drift tracks how fast new material arrives relative to how fast it is anchored, so a fast, prolific exchange branches, as a crystal grown far from equilibrium does, and a project memory stabilizes an argument by keeping anchoring up with arrival
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-156	0	39	6	Mindfulness integrates a population of interests by changing which of them may act, and not only by changing what they value: noticing an impulse as an impulse suspends the step from its momentary dominance to its control of action, and that step needs no change in the discount curves
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-167	0	35	2	One-way drive rightly passes the threshold criterion: a metronome and its musician, or a nerve and its muscle, form one system relative to a target that needs both, and the direction of coupling gives the system’s internal architecture, not its membership
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-179	0	28	4	When an agent does the filing, the cost of capturing argument falls on the party that would otherwise pay to re-derive it, which removes the disparity that design-rationale systems were abandoned over
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-180	0	27	1	Drift is retrieval failure outside a critical distance: a restatement close enough to an idea retrieves it, one that has drifted too far is taken for new, and a code bypasses retrieval by content altogether
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-184	0	27	8	Anchors entrench: a structure that persists early can lock in its framing, so that later structure grows on it and alternatives become hard to reach, and retirement by status is the record’s remedy only if superseded anchors stop attracting new structure
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-176	0	24	0	Recurrence is the trigger of persistence this record is built around: coding a thing the second time it turns up captures exactly the drift that defeats an argument, and keeps capture from flooding the record
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-161	0	21	7	A system persists as the same self over an interval when a coherence measure is approximately conserved along its own trajectory, not merely matched by some map between its states
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-189	0	21	6	Fidelity is the wrong measure of a developing argument: maturing drops and changes things legitimately, so what a record can secure is traceability, change that is announced and located, not preservation
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-155	0	18	2	Willed agency is a kind between agency and selfhood: a control system whose behaviour is governed by a will-organization over several regimes is more than an agent and closer to a self, in the self-governing sense, without thereby being a subject
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-166	0	18	9	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
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-171	0	14	5	A stored text means only what its readings make of it: the writer’s projected receiver is one more reading, so an unread text has possible meanings and no fixed one
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-191	0	14	4	Restating an argument across memoryless sessions is iterated transport with only a weak channel back to the source: without anchors, restatements drift toward the collaborators’ own framings rather than at random, and a code restores continuity of transmission
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-165	0	13	3	A combined form constituted by mutual entrainment is not thereby a self in the subject sense: two dancers in phase are one coordination, an autonomous process, and still two subjects
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-168	0	12	1	Identifying agents by their will-organization is circular: will-organization is defined for an agent already given, and the agent-versus-device comparison presupposes an identified system, so neither can produce the factorization it is meant to find
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-158	0	7	1	Systems differ in whether “who drives?” has an answer at a given level of description, and the kinds form a spectrum: fully top-down, bidirectional, emergent from the whole, and between
2026-10-11	Proposed	CLAIM-183	0	2	2	Generated views of the record, fed back into the exchange, become instruments of the argument: they show where its terms evolved faster than its formalism
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-193	0	32	9	A linear probe family can tell apart only realizations whose representations differ in normalized kernel, and kernels fix a representation only up to the symmetry of what is observed: any distinction beyond that is supplied by the analyst
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-198	0	27	11	Preference reversal is not yet disunity: interests that govern a choice at disjoint times glue, and a self is divided over a choice only on an overlap, which the agent’s prediction of its own later valuation creates
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-196	0	21	7	A person’s roles in contexts that do not meet cannot contradict one another: role conflict needs an overlap, which segregating audiences prevents and collapsed contexts create
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-187	0	13	6	Whether two systems compute the same way can be tested by quotienting the full admissible symmetry group and measuring what remains: a residual barrier marks a different mechanism, and a feature with no counterpart blocks the comparison
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-250	0	12	0	What a developing argument should preserve through legitimate revision is its accountability structure, what was asserted, why, how it was challenged and what justified its revision, not its propositions, so fidelity is defined over justificatory and provenance relations while propositional content changes
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-255	0	10	4	Intending to perform an act, performing it and being recognized as having performed it are distinct, coupled variables: intended meaning is fixed at production, the act partly by roles, standing and norms, and recognition by uptake, so competent uptake is constitutive for some acts, evidential for others and irrelevant to the existence of still others
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-192	0	8	4	A multi-session argument’s thesis can move without any participant arguing for the move, which is a case of an organized whole’s course coming apart from its members’ intentions
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-262	0	8	1	Whether an agent’s regimes are coordinated by discrete switches or by continuous reorganization depends on how the agent is constituted; both occur
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-213	0	4	3	A proposed relational kind is a hypothesis about invariance across admissible changes of measurement and context, not an equivalence class under the measurements now available, so realism about kinds gains empirical content as extrapolation to probe families, populations and environments not used to construct them
2026-10-12	Proposed	CLAIM-251	0	4	0	A change in which questions a receiver population can answer determinately is not by itself a change of cover in the sheaf sense: the cover belongs to the measurement scenario and the responses are an empirical model on it, so such a change is a change of empirical model, which can create or remove a gluing obstruction on a fixed cover but does not change what the cover is, and the operational notion needs its own name until a functorial link is shown
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-285	0	26	0	An endorsement scheme that denies each operator control over its own authority can make delegation do work: rewarded for how far their preferred policies are realized and not for authority held, operators delegate to aligned others, and the two conditions need not be confined to one-hop allocation
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-281	0	14	3	Endorsement indexed by role lets a process empower another as a critic while opposing its preferred policy, so an organization that allocates authority by role can keep disagreement working inside it instead of sorting into factions
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-274	0	12	2	Participation on a shared canvas thins selectively: people keep coming back while art they invested in survives, so unaffiliated corruption falls over the event and the remaining participants are weighted toward maintainers, a cooling schedule the population produces for itself
2026-10-13	Proposed	CLAIM-276	0	10	5	A shared interpretation’s coherence, its fidelity to evidence and the plurality of live alternatives are separate quantities, and a population can raise the first while lowering the other two, so a collective interpretation’s stability is no evidence of its truth
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-303	0	123	80	Filing an argument moves work across time: it is paid for now, in filing, indexing, tracking dependencies and checking it is still current, against reconstruction later, so it is worth its cost only when expected reuse covers it, and recurrence is evidence of reuse, not the criterion
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-308	0	45	30	Where reuse cannot be forecast, recurrence weighted by reconstruction cost is the filing criterion, not only evidence for one: filing at the first use at which reconstructing again would take the overpayment past the cost of filing is within 2 − (c_a + u)/c_r of the hindsight optimum on every sequence of uses, at most twice, and no deterministic rule without foresight guarantees materially better, under fixed known costs, with staleness left out and the cost of recognizing what a filed argument answers taken as fixed
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-295	0	32	7	A record of an inquiry’s justifications adds nothing for decisions its current state already suffices for: what it can add is a wider family of decisions for which what is kept suffices, and decisions a bounded agent can make that it otherwise could not
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-298	0	25	8	A frame can change a judgement by changing which of an interpreter’s stored distinctions are reachable, without supplying any evidence about what is being judged
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-301	0	9	0	Iterative retrieval can turn a provisional interpretation into a premise: a framing selects what is encountered, what is encountered reinforces the framing, and the question being investigated drifts as well as the queries
2026-10-15	Proposed	CLAIM-314	0	5	3	Reusing a filed argument has a recognition cost that a fixed per-use price leaves out: certifying that stored answers cover a new question is NP-complete even for conjunctive queries, grows with the number and size of the stored definitions rather than being a constant per item, and is undefined for an item filed without a statement of what it answers, so each filing raises the cost of later reuse and per-item break-even decisions are not independent
2026-10-16	Proposed	CLAIM-329	0	59	14	A collective that replaces all its members persists, when it does, by causal transmission of the organization that produces it, not by resemblance: an organization of the same kind that arises independently is not its continuation, and a lapse in its coherence need not end it
2026-10-16	Proposed	CLAIM-327	0	53	4	A slowly changing collective variable, such as a reputation, a rivalry or a standing, is part of a collective’s dynamics and not only an observer’s average when its members read it, condition what they do on it, and by doing so regenerate it
2026-10-16	Proposed	CLAIM-337	0	31	28	Active inference already runs an internal loop: mental action selects among higher-level cognitive states and sets the precision of lower-level observations, structure learning reshapes the generative model without action, and a judgement is behaviour, so a judgement–observation loop may be action and perception one Markov blanket inward
2026-10-16	Proposed	CLAIM-332	0	17	3	A loosely organized population can change what an outside institution does through its members’ separately motivated acts of making, selecting and passing things on, without forming a collective intention or judgment, when the organized pattern of those acts, and not only the acts of identifiable individuals, earns its place in explaining the change
2026-10-17	Proposed	CLAIM-338	0	1	0	The selectivity active inference gives action, sampling what one expects to experience, is played in the coupled meaning–authority model by the authority space: influence decides which operators retrieve and so what the next judgement observes, which makes Friston’s self-confirming sampling the model’s authority-to-interpretation arrow and his agent a coupled loop run without independent scoring
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-355	0	82	11	In a distributed agent the binding of appraisal, readiness and governance into one response can be real while the single owner a self-model or collective self-description attributes it to is a representational construction, not a further entity; the illusion, where there is one, is in the attribution and belongs to whichever system adopts the representation, and this deflates the self without settling whether experience is real
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-362	0	32	9	Non-domination of an agent’s subcomponents is a candidate constituent of authenticity as an organizational achievement, not a sufficient criterion of ownership: higher-level processes need not impose the outcome because the lower-level ones already support it or settle their disagreement among themselves, and a process that rarely decides keeps access to the roles in which it is consequential
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-364	0	28	7	Processes conditioned never to object coordinate without override at the same behaviour and supervisory cost as processes that negotiate, so the two part only under intervention, when a constituent dissents, or in their history
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-367	0	24	0	Whether a training-time regulatory condition belongs to a network depends on which unit is individuated for the training dynamics and whose jurisdiction governs the updates; in conventional training most of that governance falls to the optimizer–model–data system, so a condition of training is not thereby a condition of the network
2026-10-18	Proposed	CLAIM-361	0	20	10	Relief of an organization’s frustration must be judged for an identified organization against a fixed reference set of its original demands, under an explicit correspondence between earlier and later demands: a demand excised or suppressed has changed the comparison and has not been satisfied, an endogenous revision of what the organization maintains is a transformation of it and not relief, and learning can change which processes bear the demands
2026-10-20	Proposed	CLAIM-393	0	6	6	Ordinary and legal attributions of agency to an artifact cannot serve as the independent marks that would defeat the record’s agency test, because they turn on whether its mechanism is understood: a known mechanism invites “This is all just programmed!”, an inscrutable one invites fear, whatever the description lengths
2026-10-20	Proposed	CLAIM-396	0	4	1	Directional information measures between reciprocally coupled units follow the path of a one-sided drive rather than the symmetry of the coupling, so the observed direction of information flow does not by itself reveal which way, or whether both ways, the units are coupled
2026-10-21	Proposed	CLAIM-412	0	90	4	Experience is constituted by interpretive organization, not produced by it: an appropriately organized process in which signals acquire significance for a system is the experience, so whether a system can have experience becomes whether it can sustain that organization
2026-10-22	Proposed	CLAIM-417	0	57	5	What the record explained by “self” in its dispositional, persisting, self-governing and integrated senses is better explained by organizational perspectives, with a perspective, its carriers, its lineage and its representations kept apart; the subject sense stays a separate question, and narrative, presented and modeled selves involve representations that may describe a perspective, attribute it to a bearer or construct an owner, none of them the perspective itself
2026-10-22	Proposed	CLAIM-423	0	31	1	In a political collective, components that change at different speeds (attention, coalitions, elected terms, administrative careers, law and treaties, generational memory) are not only nested by timescale: under a given institutional arrangement their different temporal horizons affect which forms of influence each can accumulate, exercise and keep, and so which of them holds authority over the others, so a state can stay continuous as an actor while the organization producing its positions changes under it
2026-10-22	Proposed	CLAIM-430	0	30	17	An interaction can make available a way of relating that its participants’ operative perspectives did not hold, by giving each a role to enact in it, so that taking part can come before, and help produce, the reinterpretation it later seems to express; whether the change stays with the partner, generalizes to a category, or is reproduced beyond the encounter are further questions
2026-10-22	Proposed	CLAIM-425	0	17	0	A perspective governs itself with respect to social judgement to the extent that it keeps access to others’ judgements of it while making their authority over its conduct depend on their grounds, not on their visibility, repetition or attributed plurality; neither absorbing every judgement nor resisting every one meets this, since both let the judgements set the terms of response
2026-10-22	Proposed	CLAIM-428	0	3	2	Material interdependence couples parties’ outcomes without fixing the perspective that organizes the coupling: the same dependence can be organized as mutual opportunity, as competitive vulnerability or as coercive leverage, so interdependence makes for peace to the extent that cooperation also changes which interests the parties’ institutions recognize and who holds influence over them, and payoff coupling alone does not settle which
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-439	0	49	16	A regime of valence is felt, in the sense of attended and available to the system’s other processes, when the system that is in it also models it: when a deeper process infers which ordering wins its negotiation, which way the system is moving along it and how strongly it prevails, and the inference is used elsewhere in the system; unfelt valence is the potential without that model, as unfelt fluency is a change in precision without the inference about it
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-435	0	40	8	Veit’s common currency and ALARM’s override are two regimes of one ordering serving as the negotiation’s potential, compensatory and overriding, so their rivalry over what the first felt valence did becomes the question whether the earliest potential orderings are continuous: in motivational trade-off experiments, a continuous indifference curve between a noxious cost and a resource for Veit, a discontinuity at a threshold beyond which no resource buys the cost for ALARM; only a graded override, deciding at every level of its own intensity, lacks a currency altogether
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-438	0	34	6	An ordering serving as the negotiation’s potential, as the potential account of valence defines it, tracks ‘wanting’, not ‘liking’: sensitized incentive salience wins a system’s conflicts, persists and resumes while hedonic impact measured by taste reactivity stays flat or falls, so the regime the account calls hedonic valence is motivational valence, and hedonic valence, if it is anywhere in the account, is elsewhere
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-445	0	33	11	A protective regime, in a person, an institution or a system of states, becomes self-maintaining when the interventions it authorizes shift the evidence used to judge its necessity, the authority and resources of those who judge it, the capacities of its constituents or the threat environment itself in ways that favour its continuation; this can happen when the original threat was real and the first protection apt, and it is a failure only where the regime has become less responsive to evidence that it is no longer needed
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-451	0	31	9	When an organization’s record of winning moves cycles, the failure is organizational nonintegrability, distinct from a perspective’s own preference instability and from switching of the governing regime; it becomes organizational tension only when realized as costly reversal against demands the organization maintains, and cognitive dissonance only when that tension is detected and appraised as aversive; learning can relieve it by accommodation, by entrenched precedence or by cheap periodic coordination, which observed coherence does not tell apart, and ambivalence and nonintegrability entail neither one another
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-433	0	29	9	The potential account of valence is an account of goal-conduciveness valence, not of intrinsic pleasantness: on the component process model’s separation of levels of valence, the ordering that prevails ranks states by need satisfaction and goal attainment, the potential’s strength tracks ‘wanting’ and its sign tracks goal conduciveness, while ‘liking’ is a separate appraisal with its own ordering; so the wanting–liking dissociation is two valence systems coming apart, as that separation predicts, and the objection that the account is not about pleasure is conceded rather than answered
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-432	0	20	12	A corporation can be an agent fit to be held responsible and the bearer of functional affect in Frijda’s sense, so psychopathy’s affective features can be assigned to it as well as its conduct: it lacks remorse, functionally, when harm it does to others is not among the concerns its own appraisals track and gains precedence over what it does only when a regulator or a market turns it into a threat to the corporation’s concerns; that profile, threat without remorse, is the construct’s, and it is changed by redesigning the corporation’s concerns, not its members’ characters
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-426	0	16	0	Where a judgement’s circulation helps bring about what it says, its visibility, repetition and attributed plurality are evidence about what it will bring about, so the rule that a judgement’s authority should come from its grounds and not its visibility holds for judgements of what already is, and not without qualification for judgements of what someone or something will become
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-441	0	12	7	Flow tells against the potential account’s condition that valence is undefined where no pair is contested: on the record’s own account of flow nothing is overridden because an activity’s immediate reward and its longer-run value coincide, yet flow is reported as positive, so either flow’s positivity is intrinsic pleasantness and not goal-conduciveness valence, or flow keeps contested pairs its processes settle among themselves, or the positivity comes after the episode and not during it, or the condition is wrong
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-442	0	7	4	Frijda’s emotion and the potential account’s system valence sit on opposite sides of the gap between the precedence a motive claims and the authority it is granted: an emotion, action readiness claiming control precedence, is a claim, a perspective’s valence is read on its claims, and the system’s valence is read on what the negotiation grants, so a change in grants with the claims fixed, as mindfulness is said to make, changes the system’s valence and leaves the perspectives’ emotions and valences as they were
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-431	0	6	3	A corporation’s functional remorse cannot be told from prudence: any procedure or role duty that makes others’ harms its concern was put there for its own ends, reputation, liability or recruitment, so the line between harm as concern and harm as threat, and with it the line between a remorseful and a psychopathic corporation, does not hold, and the clinical word adds nothing to a description of its incentives
2026-10-23	Proposed	CLAIM-447	0	6	6	Model-based wanting is a pursuit process’s ranking of the futures it predicts under candidate interventions, P(S
2026-10-24	Proposed	CLAIM-444	0	26	6	A replicator dynamic on the distribution of authority among an organization’s processes is the special case of the meaning–authority–legibility model in which the organization’s interpretation is the authority-weighted mixture of its processes’ and evidence reaches scoring without a maintained regime of its own; the replicator tools (Bayesian reading, potential and harmonic games, stochastic stability) then apply, and the record’s separate interpretation and legibility states earn their place exactly where interpretation departs from that mixture or legibility keeps a memory of past authority
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-478	0	68	7	Scale separation helps make structure and not only marks it: where some degrees of freedom settle fast relative to others, the relation they settle into is a constraint on the system over the window between the two time scales, so what is a realization at one scale works as a constraint at another; and organization can make new separations in turn, as when modes slow near an instability and become order parameters, so time-scale hierarchies and constraints can produce one another
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-474	0	30	6	From interconnection to individuation, the relationships are distinct achievements that form a partial order, not a nested sequence: none implies the next, and a later one need not require every earlier one. Interconnection fixes what joint behaviour is possible, compatibility which local descriptions admit a coherent whole, dynamics which organizations persist, individuation which have sufficiently robust identity and boundaries, organizational autonomy which help maintain their own constitutive constraints, and inquiry which can measure and revise their own models and apparatuses under resource bounds, inquiry and reconstruction occurring without autonomy. The research program is to find the conditions for each, and their dependencies, apart from the order in which an inquiry meets them
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-468	0	21	8	Valence intensity need not be the strength of the prevailing ordering’s potential: in Hesp et al.’s model negative valence is a weakening of the preference ordering’s precision with a fall back to habit, and positive affect is reported to lower a goal’s priority, so for either sign stronger valence can go with a weaker hold of the ordering
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-484	0	18	3	Internal conflict is the gap between the precedence a motive claims over action and the authority the rest of the organization grants it
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-472	0	6	3	Because an apparatus makes some distinctions determinate and leaves others unstatable, choosing and maintaining one is open to evaluation and not only to verification; but that a cut excludes something fixes no obligation, since every distinction excludes, and which exclusions matter is a judgment indexed to a standard, a scale and those affected
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-461	0	3	3	Compensation is not only a re-performance notion: for a reader whose code gives the literal word a meaning the source lacked, the compensating rendering can be the more faithful report, so assigning compensation to re-performance alone needs narrowing
2026-10-27	Proposed	CLAIM-465	0	0	0	An organization’s flexibility among regimes depends on the conditions under which a regime gives up authority as well as those under which it takes it, so escalation without a release condition leaves authority with a regime after the demand that justified it has passed
2026-10-28	Proposed	CLAIM-487	0	5	0	Describing the relations that decide which regime becomes effective as one will-organization, across realizers, explains something that planning theory, control theory, executive-control research and institutional theory each describing their own realizer does not
2026-10-29	Proposed	CLAIM-491	0	143	19	No action is selfless in the sense of aiming at a good that is no self’s: what is called selflessness, collectivist or altruistic, is concern for the good of a self extended to include others or a group, so collectivism is self-interest on a larger self-identity
2026-10-29	Proposed	CLAIM-494	0	44	3	Empathic concern for another produces motivation whose ultimate goal is the other’s welfare, and it does so when perceived self–other merging is controlled, so not all helping is concern for an extended self
2026-10-29	Proposed	CLAIM-493	0	7	1	When a fanbase is set against an outside party such as its club’s owner, its more extreme members become more prototypical of it, so a vocal minority can fix the fanbase’s public stance through a group process and not only through biased sampling of who speaks
2026-10-29	Proposed	CLAIM-490	0	2	1	A fanbase is a mixture of spectators who relate to the club in different ways, as supporters, followers, fans and flâneurs, so the public stance credited to it is weighted towards the most committed types before any bias in who is sampled
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-507	0	5	2	On WMT22 News MQM, xCOMET’s error spans are more coherent with its own regression scores than either is with expert judgement: the agreement between its heads is coherence between two outputs of one model, and adds little to what the spans’ own agreement with experts shows
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-504	0	4	4	The strongest operationalization of the functional and relevance-theoretic rivals to the transport structure is a rich contextual baseline of context-response profiles and supervised prediction
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-500	0	2	2	The governance-induced kind of frustration is not idle: some failures of an organization’s actual updates to meet demands that an admissible update would meet are explained by how influence is allocated, and not by step size, curvature, noise, conditioning or a fixed weighting rule
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-505	0	1	1	A goal’s lowered priority under positive affect need not be a weaker hold of the prevailing ordering: on Carver’s satisficing account the effort released goes to the goal furthest behind, which the prevailing ordering of the system’s states may itself direct
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-510	0	1	1	Measurement can establish, and not only estimate, a correspondence among local descriptions: some correspondences that measurement estimates can be checked against evidence the measurement did not itself produce
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-498	0	0	0	Averaging weights within a basin averages features: the network whose weights are the average of several networks in one low-loss basin has, in every layer, the average of their features
2026-10-30	Proposed	CLAIM-499	0	0	0	The linear barrier left after aligning independently trained networks over the architecture’s symmetries rises with depth
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-515	0	18	4	Whether an organization has a cognitive property is four questions, not one: what information about the property can be recovered from its behaviour, what capabilities it can actually exercise, what mechanisms realize them, and whether it can maintain or transform those mechanisms; the four can come apart, and none should be silently substituted for another
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-526	0	12	7	Describing persons and organizations as coexisting levels of one process removes the question of how already-constituted agents add up to a collective, but not the question of levels: whether a collective variable has dynamics of its own, closed against the activity that realizes it, can be decided on a process description that presupposes no agents, is sometimes decided no, and a closed collective variable can be an aggregate that coexists with its realization while keeping none of its members’ distinctions
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-518	0	10	7	Normative judgments about an organization’s continuity, reform or obligations can depend on diachronic relations that descriptions of present states or terminal outcomes do not show, so specifying the relevant relations and histories can be necessary to apply them adequately; which continuations ought to follow is a further normative question, not a prerequisite of every normative judgment
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-512	0	8	6	The diachronic thesis faces two objections: a dilemma, that read narrowly it fails for judgments not about any organization’s continuation, such as that suffering is bad, and read broadly every judgment is met vacuously as a preference between continuations unless the organizational description adds causal specificity, transfer or counterfactual discrimination; and a distinction, that evaluating a history is not prescribing its continuation, so a judgment can be determinate with no future transformation fixed
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-527	0	8	4	Viable reach, valence and emotion are three quantities in an organization, not one: an emotion is a claim to precedence, system valence is movement along the ordering that wins the negotiation, and a change in what the organization can viably reach is neither, so an organization can run ahead along its prevailing ordering while its viable reach contracts
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-511	0	5	3	A self-maintaining organization ought to preserve its corrigibility
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-525	0	5	4	Information in the sense the Simondonian readings give it, a disparity whose resolution reorders the system that takes it up, is in the line’s terms a change in the interpreter or in the questions receivers can decide, not evidence about a fixed situation, so Blackwell’s order leaves it out by construction and the two accounts are not rivals
2026-10-31	Proposed	CLAIM-514	0	3	2	World-modeling is a family of resource-bounded capabilities for producing and using predictions about an environment’s possibilities and consequences, each relative to a declared family of questions; a world model in the representational sense is one possible realization of them, competent behaviour can determine environmental structure without identifying any internal mechanism, and producing, maintaining and revising world-modeling capabilities are further achievements, not prerequisites of agency in general
2026-11-01	Proposed	CLAIM-528	0	19	4	That a mechanism realizes a capacity can mean that the capacity is produced through it over time or that the capacity consists in it at a time, and interventions show only the first: a pathway whose disabling changes the capacity after a delay is a cause, can be intervened on surgically, and can be located relative to a declared boundary, whereas every intervention on a capacity that consists in its parts also changes some part along another path, so that relation is underdetermined by intervention data and is inferred by abduction or from simultaneity and settled parthood; and which of the two a given dependence is depends on the time resolution at which a description treats the parts’ response as instantaneous
2026-11-01	Proposed	CLAIM-530	0	18	0	Where maintenance is realized is a question of constitutive relevance only through its parthood condition: an internal producer and an outside controller supplying the same production law as state feedback meet mutual manipulability’s two manipulability conditions identically, since disabling or stimulating either changes the maintained capacities and intervening on the capacities changes the activity of either, so what puts one inside and the other outside is parthood, a boundary the experiments presuppose and do not find
2026-11-01	Proposed	CLAIM-531	0	7	6	Generative entrenchment does not by itself give organizational closure: an entrenched core, which later interactions depend on so that perturbing it is catastrophic and perturbing them tolerable, can sit at the root of an acyclic dependency order, and where interactions turn over such an order persists only while something outside supplies its core; an organization that is both entrenched and closed has a core containing a cycle of mutual maintenance, each interaction on which is itself core unless its share of the maintenance is redundant
2026-11-01	Proposed	CLAIM-529	0	2	2	An organization can be individuated without presupposing it as a declared candidate whose verdict can come out false: criteria stated on the candidate’s interactions (whether benefit can be booked per member, which interactions the others depend on, what removing an interaction type does, whether its order survives release from an outside scaffold) apply to a grouping not yet assumed to be a unit, while criteria stated as members’ attitudes toward the group (a goal about it, belonging, identity) make it partly constituted by being taken as one, a different individuation, unavailable where members have no such attitudes
2026-11-02	Proposed	CLAIM-543	0	12	0	What separates a language model’s distribution over personas from a distribution over organizational perspectives is not whether the latent model is hierarchical, since a mixture or an LDA-style admixture already is, but whether some latent components condition which others are available or consequential: a model whose components are exchangeable given their weights is organizationally flat however many levels its prior has, and dependencies among components count as organization (organization as relational arrangement) only where interventions, not fit, support them
2026-11-02	Proposed	CLAIM-541	0	8	0	Wu-wei is better read as control placed and timed where a system’s own dynamics do most of the work than as the absence of control: Ott–Grebogi–Yorke control of chaos is a formal instance, in which small perturbations timed by the system’s own wandering hold it on an unstable orbit, and the control, though small, continues for as long as the orbit is held; so reported effortlessness has at least three distinct sources, no conflict to override, conflict settled cheaply by learned accommodation, and conflict met as it arises by small well-timed feedback, which may feel alike and differ in mechanism
2026-11-03	Proposed	CLAIM-532	0	13	0	Self-formation, in the sense the record holds (the transformation dimension of a will-organization), is the production by an agent’s own activity on a discrepancy it cannot yet resolve of a maintained capacity, a new distinction it can make legible or a new channel by which it can act, that outlasts the discrepancy and serves a class of later ones; it is told apart from learning an action by transfer to discrepancies of the same class after the inducing conditions are gone, and from a capacity installed or upheld from outside by interventions on the processes that produce and maintain it
2026-11-03	Proposed	CLAIM-539	0	3	0	Jennings’s attention as the source of a free will has Frankfurt’s two-level architecture with its upper level changed from an attitude to a process: the whole collection of an agent’s interests, prioritizing, settles which first-order interest becomes effective, as a second-order volition does for Frankfurt, but by metacontrol and not by endorsement; so it inherits unchanged the objection that a manipulated organization can meet the condition, and what it adds to Frankfurt is that the process forms new interests and is a contextually emergent cause
2026-11-03	Proposed	CLAIM-534	0	2	0	A plural will’s motivational integration, a dimension of freedom of will the record names and leaves unanalysed, is the extent to which the demands it maintains are jointly met, within tolerances it can recognize, across the contexts where they interact, and kept so under its own dynamics; it is neither agreement among the demands nor the dominance of one, and its parts come apart: realizability (the tolerance frontier), realization (governance frustration), maintenance (viability) and the allocation of the tolerance each demand gives up
2026-11-03	Proposed	CLAIM-544	0	2	0	If a willed agent is the jurisdiction of its will-organization, then governing one’s own governability is in part governing one’s own individuation, in the constitutive sense of individuation at that level: a revision of the will-organization that changes which regimes it governs changes which willed agent there is, so a self-forming revision can be a re-individuation and not only a change in an agent’s states, and whether the revised jurisdiction continues the earlier agent is a question of continuation, not of resemblance
2026-11-04	Proposed	CLAIM-547	0	8	0	Cooperation within groups and the coexistence of groups are distinct targets that can trade off: in the group-selection rule of Nowak’s five, b/c > 1 + n/m, cooperation spreads because a group that grows to size n splits and another group is driven extinct, so the mechanism that stabilizes cooperation inside groups works by removing groups; cooperation local to a group, the persistence of several groups whose interests are opposed, and concern for those outside one’s group are three achievements, and none of them secures the next
2026-11-04	Proposed	CLAIM-546	0	1	0	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

CASEs

11 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-10-26	Proposed	CASE-163	2	28	2	Identifying how governing rules are maintained from diagnostic probes: a predictor fitted under reciprocal production fails under self-dependent production with histories matched, an audit pulse with a short producer interruption identifies which of four known mechanisms applies and predicts withheld interventions, and fitting decay and threshold as well helps after the parameters shift and hurts at nominal ones, within a known catalog and with every probe run on a counterfactual reset
2026-10-26	Proposed	CASE-166	1	20	1	Northstar as a multilevel simulation: twelve employees with fixed frames in four departments form overlapping working groups that keep records and can receive delegated authority; as reported, a working group with delegated authority ties a conventional router given the same information and authority, nearly all of its advantage over departmental silos comes from fast authorization, and keeping the incident team’s records through a commander handoff improves the company’s estimate of its own state about eightfold while barely changing what it does
2026-10-26	Proposed	CASE-164	1	12	0	A 192-state organization on which one kernel gives several closure verdicts: the description by agents and phase is informationally closed on the intact support and fails global strong lumpability, its deficiency for the next pair of rule integrities under a declared intervention mixture is 0.55·H₂(1/3) ≈ 0.5051 bits and zero once the maintenance mode is kept, and finite-sample predictive gains misread both a positive and a zero information defect
2026-10-04	Deferred	CASE-014	0	3	1	Microsoft, as the philosophical target
2026-10-26	Proposed	CASE-165	0	74	2	A dynamic beta–Bernoulli latent-feature model of an organization’s members: a finite Indian buffet prior over who holds which interpretive features, a sticky logistic transition for holding them, activations, and team, communication and authorization layers above; at the proposed size of sixteen features it falls well short of the Indian buffet process it quotes, its persistence term does not hold rare features, and the difference between having a capacity and using it is not identified from the outputs
2026-10-27	Proposed	CASE-173	0	13	1	Aphids and Buchnera: an obligate nutritional symbiosis in which neither partner reproduces alone, and the symbiont’s genome reduced to a seventh of E. coli’s
2026-10-27	Proposed	CASE-171	0	10	4	Mealybugs, Tremblaya and Moranella: a bacterium inside a bacterium inside an insect, amino-acid pathways patched together from three genomes and genes transferred from other bacteria, and an inner symbiont replaced several times while the transferred genes stayed
2026-10-27	Proposed	CASE-174	0	10	3	Paulinella chromatophora: a photosynthetic organelle in the making, from an endosymbiosis independent of the plastids’, its genome reduced to about a third of its coding capacity, and hundreds of host proteins imported into it, most encoded by the host’s own genes rather than transferred from the symbiont
2026-10-27	Proposed	CASE-177	0	9	3	Hodgkinia in cicadas: one endosymbiont splitting into two to dozens of interdependent lineages, with near-complementary gene sets, idiosyncratic fragmentation in Magicicada, and hosts transmitting up to six times as many cells to keep every lineage
2026-10-27	Proposed	CASE-167	0	7	1	The nitroplast: UCYN-A, a streamlined nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium in a marine alga, whose division is coupled to the host’s and which imports host-encoded proteins, reclassified as an early-stage organelle in 2024
2026-10-27	Proposed	CASE-168	0	4	0	Monocercomonoides: a eukaryote that lost its mitochondrion entirely after the organelle’s essential jobs were removed in steps, its Fe–S cluster assembly taken over by a bacterial-type SUF system that its relatives share and its glycine cleavage system lost, and kept canonical eukaryotic complexity

TERMs

17 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-11-03	Proposed	TERM-100	11	5	0	provenance, of a capacity or an organization, and which sense: formation provenance (whose process produced it), maintenance provenance (whose process keeps it), or source provenance (what it was made from, the sense the descent term holds)
2026-10-23	Proposed	TERM-076	10	91	20	goal-conduciveness valence, organizational: a regime in which the negotiation among a system’s perspectives has, approximately, a potential, an ordering of the system’s own states by their bearing on its maintenance along which the moves that win its conflicts are improvements, persisting and restored after interruption; signed by whether the system runs ahead of or behind a reference course along that potential, and as intense as the negotiation’s decisions follow it rather than any rival ordering
2026-11-03	Proposed	TERM-099	5	2	0	self-formation, of an agent: the production, by the agent’s own activity on a discrepancy it cannot yet resolve, of a maintained capacity, a new distinction it can make legible or a new channel by which it can act, that outlasts the discrepancy and serves a class of later ones
2026-10-04	Deferred	TERM-006	3	3	1	organizational authenticity
2026-10-04	Deferred	TERM-012	3	2	0	cross-scale concordance
2026-10-21	Proposed	TERM-066	3	18	0	interpretive capture, of an organization’s evaluation: the condition in which the processes that read evidence, score constituents and allocate authority are driven by the interpretation or party being evaluated more than by evidence independent of it, so that authority amplifies or holds an interpretation without a gain in fidelity; judged against a standard specified apart from the captured process
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-088	3	15	7	individuation, and which sense: descriptive (an inquiry can distinguish and track it), dynamical (its organization persists under specified dynamics and perturbation, with robust identity and boundaries), constitutive (its relational organization helps fix its identity and boundary), and organizational autonomy, the further achievement of contributing to the maintenance of its own constitutive constraints
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-086	3	13	11	organizational achievement, of a specified target: its attainment or maintenance, under declared conditions, where an identifiable arrangement of relations among components makes an explanatory difference that a comparison with admissible alternatives can show, as an episode, a maintained capacity or the reproduction of what sustains that capacity
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-087	2	20	3	cut, and which sense: a Cartesian cut, Pattee’s epistemic cut, or Barad’s agential cut, enacted by an apparatus
2026-10-21	Proposed	TERM-063	0	15	1	agent, as an individual that is the active source of modulations of its coupling with its environment and regulates them against norms its own organization sets (Barandiaran, Di Paolo and Rohde)
2026-10-24	Proposed	TERM-079	0	1	1	belief, of a process: a maintained, truth-directed inferential commitment, held to the degree that the process uses a proposition as a premise in interpreting observations, generating expectations and evaluating counterfactuals across the contexts it bears on, together with the profile by which that commitment is revised; distinct from entertaining an interpretation, from asserting it, and from granting it authority over action
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-082	0	11	3	consciousness, and which sense: phenomenal, access, self-consciousness or wakefulness
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-083	0	11	4	moral standing: being owed moral consideration directly, for one’s own sake, and not only for one’s effects on others
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-080	0	3	3	collective intention, and which sense: participatory shared intention, institutionally constituted intention, or attributed collective intention
2026-10-27	Proposed	TERM-081	0	2	2	moral worth, and which sense: intrinsic moral value, status-based dignity, or moral merit
2026-10-29	Proposed	TERM-096	0	18	2	group entity, as distinct from a category of members
2026-10-31	Proposed	TERM-098	0	5	5	concept, as realized by an organization: a reusable, systematically consequential pattern of distinctions, applicable across a stated range of contexts with inferential or operational consequences; distinct from the feature or representation that carries it, from the organization that realizes it, and from what it is about, and distinct from conceptual corrigibility, the further capacity to find and revise its inadequacies

ARGs

19 of the 911.

Open since	Status	Code	Relied on	Cited	Unack.	Title
2026-10-05	Proposed	ARG-005	0	13	1	The reluctant writer’s precommitment device changes what they do without changing what they want, so the conditions of efficacy govern which regime acts
2026-10-05	Proposed	ARG-009	0	10	1	Northstar-A and Northstar-B differ only in escalation authority and act differently, so escalation authority helps govern efficacy
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-033	0	19	11	Saussure’s value, as the record reads it, supports transport of relational identity across languages
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-016	0	12	2	Valuations that do not cross, read through coordination dynamics, make flow a synchronization of interests
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-036	0	11	8	The lab’s restricted models, whose predictions could have failed, support the shared-organization thesis
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-028	0	7	3	Inbound references per code and turns per filed entry show which structures anchor and that drift falls as anchoring keeps up with arrival
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-017	0	5	5	A constant kernel fits any one source–target pair, so one pair does not identify the procedure-level fidelity score
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-025	0	5	2	Matched ordinary behaviour and differing responses to intervention show that organizational perspectives explain what the record explained by self
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-035	0	5	2	Griffiths and Kalish’s convergence theorem and Kirby, Cornish and Smith’s chains show that serial transmission is filtered by the transmitters’ inductive biases
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-015	0	4	2	A population of operators that maximize fixed objectives and comes to hold durable authority would show self-constitution
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-029	0	4	1	The operational account, kept as a rule of method, supports a realist kind that can outrun observation as the bearer of communicative identity
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-019	0	3	1	Blackwell’s order on rendering procedures grounds the thesis that what survives translation is what a receiver can reconstruct
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-030	0	3	0	Low supervisory cost shows that an organization does not dominate its processes
2026-10-28	Proposed	ARG-040	0	1	1	In use, an utterance is interpreted by its contrast with the alternatives its speaker could have used, so what a translation must let a receiver reconstruct is those contrasts, not the wording or the proposition
2026-10-30	Proposed	ARG-041	0	3	0	From the effective-information bound and its ties to proportionality: a gain that depends on the intervention distribution is not a property of the system, the coarse-grainings that lose nothing are, and the coarsest of them is where the causes are
2026-10-31	Proposed	ARG-043	0	0	0	Bencherki’s checklist and daycare, one end state with opposite verdicts, show a normative judgment about an organization that depends on a history its end state does not show
2026-10-31	Proposed	ARG-044	0	0	0	The MSF meeting reanalysed by Bencherki, Brummans and Vézy shows that an interaction can make available a way of relating its participants did not hold, and names the condition under which it lasts; it does not show that taking part comes before the reinterpretation
2026-10-31	Proposed	ARG-048	0	0	0	Tsoukas and Chia’s radial extension and institutionalization show how the exercise of a shared perspective can transform it with no agent governing the change, the agents and the institution kept distinct
2026-11-01	Proposed	ARG-051	0	9	3	Mind-wandering, read as Metzinger reads it, is an individual-scale case in which a capacity the agent keeps, veto over its own mental processes, loses and regains efficacy through a change in a condition of efficacy and not in the competing processes, so it is a further instance of the conditions of efficacy governing which regime acts, the first in the record for suspension in one mind

Relied on counts the documents that depend on each one, directly or transitively, through rests_on, grounds, uses, presupposes — and ranks the table, age breaking ties. An open question many documents rest on is a decision the record has already built on.

The citation count is the second axis, and it flips the priority: an old proposal nothing references is a stalled idea worth closing, while an old proposal many files cite is a decision the codebase has already made and hasn’t written down.

This count and the reference-status report’s will differ, and that is not an off-by-one. That report covers documents something actually cites and hasn’t acknowledged; this one covers every undecided document. One here is missing from there for exactly one of two reasons: nothing cites it, or every citation carries an inactive-ok annotation.

Cited nowhere at all (45): THEORY-099, CLAIM-007, THEORY-409, THEORY-423, THEORY-428, THEORY-438, THEORY-467, THEORY-483, THEORY-486, THEORY-506, THEORY-521, THEORY-542, THEORY-556, THEORY-572, THEORY-578, THEORY-600, THEORY-610, THEORY-615, THEORY-657, THEORY-682, CLAIM-465, CLAIM-498, CLAIM-499, THEORY-1173, THEORY-1175, THEORY-1177, THEORY-1178, THEORY-1179, THEORY-1180, THEORY-1181, THEORY-1182, THEORY-1183, THEORY-1184, THEORY-1185, THEORY-1186, THEORY-1187, THEORY-1188, THEORY-1189, THEORY-1190, THEORY-1191, THEORY-1192, THEORY-1193, ARG-043, ARG-044, ARG-048 — these are the cheapest to close, since nothing depends on the answer.