One Stack,
Separated Claims
Two connected but independent lanes
The ontology lane asks what phenomenal presence may ultimately be. The science lane asks which measurable brain dynamics and control mechanisms can be causally tested. Neither lane proves the other.
CCH does not require AC or CFH.
A successful CCH result would not prove AC or CFH.
A successful DCC, MDL×DCC, or AI8 result supports only its domain-bounded engineering claim, not AC, CFH, biological CCH, or biological or artificial consciousness.
Term-by-term authority and boundary
| Term | Canonical authority | Current status | What it may support | Forbidden inference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC | AC Flagship | Ontology of presence-ground | Ontological interpretation and AC-specific differential predictions, if any | A CCH or DCC result proves AC |
| CF | CFH | Field-like metaphysical language for proposed AC ubiquity; not an established physical carrier | Personal/speculative interpretation and hypothesis generation | A conventional field, signal, or carrier has been established |
| R | AC / CFH; local operationalization delegated to CCH | Ontological/bridge organization condition; not directly measured as one scalar | A conceptual condition that can motivate independently defined local tests | R is already a measured physical quantity or sufficient regime |
| RC | AC Flagship | Bounded relative conscious reality | Ontology-level description of local relative experience | An established physical variable |
| CCH | Foundations + CCH Science | Biological research programme; not a demonstrated mechanism | Preregistered local neuroscience hypotheses and causal tests | CCH already explains consciousness or proves AC/CFH |
| DCC | DCC engineering documents | Engineering abstraction and implemented controller family derived from the claustrum control question | Domain-bounded stability, recovery, search, compression, and governance results under matched tests | DCC success proves AC, CFH, biological CCH, or consciousness by analogy |
| MDL×DCC | Projects Are Evidence. The Method Is the Value. MDL×DCC Domain Map | Working engineering method with domain-bounded and cross-domain evidence; not universal proof | Engineering transfer, governor design, arena design, solver/process architecture, AI8 and ArenaLoop development, and selection of further tests | MDL×DCC success proves AC, CFH, biological CCH, biological consciousness, artificial consciousness, phenomenality, or one universal causal variable |
| MDL×DCC Reasoning Trace Arena | Reasoning Trace Arena | PREREGISTERED ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT — NO RESULT YET | Test whether process-side compression dynamics add held-out value for correctness prediction, stagnation detection, best-of-n, strategy switching, and early stopping under matched compute | A planned test is evidence of success; AGI/ASI is solved; hidden chain-of-thought is required; or the result would prove consciousness, AC, CFH, or biological CCH |
| AI8 | AI8 engineering documents | Active continuity and research architecture extending the engineering lane | Engineering continuity, governance, provenance, multi-worker research, ArenaLoop, and Team Genesis development | Evidence for CCH, AC, CFH, or artificial phenomenality |
| X(t) | CCH Science | PRIMARY CANDIDATE MULTIDIMENSIONAL NEURAL STATE — NOT YET FROZEN | Held-out state, trajectory, recovery, and intervention prediction after a frozen contract | A universal consciousness state vector or phenomenality measure |
| Ω_CCH | CCH Science | CANDIDATE PREREGISTERED TARGET REGION — NOT YET FROZEN | Independent held-out target-region tests after anti-circular calibration | A post-hoc region defined by desired labels |
| S* | CCH Science | OPTIONAL CANDIDATE COMPRESSION AND ADVERSARIAL TARGET — NOT YET FROZEN | A preregistered compression that may fail independently of X(t) | A consciousness meter, AC/CF strength, or CFH-owned variable |
| CCC | Historical documents only | RETIRED HISTORICAL SHORTHAND | Historical provenance only | Active synonym for CCH, claustrum, or a complete controller; use “candidate controller component” or “candidate distributed control architecture” |
Soul Voyage and AC/CFH/CCH document the intellectual origin of the control question; DCC abstracts it; MDL×DCC operationalizes it; projects and arenas provide the independent engineering evidence; AIM³, MAL, AI8, ArenaLoop, and Team Genesis extend the architecture. The preregistered Reasoning Trace Arena is a next engineering test, not a result. Engineering success does not prove the originating ontology, and ontological uncertainty does not erase the engineering method.
Canonical precedence
Foundations and CCH Science govern scientific claims; AC Flagship governs ontology; CFH records personal/speculative interpretation; legacy pages, the Atlas, and the Sandbox do not override either authority. The Sandbox supplies no evidence to any lane.