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research: add psychsocio-metafauna synthesis (#29)
Add the stack-local psychsocio-metafauna domain claim, synthesis map, exact work graph, nine research programs, synthetic-only preregistration, contract tests, and path-scoped CI while preserving no-canon, no-diagnosis, no-human-classification, and no-authority-transfer boundaries.
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name: psychsocio-metafauna
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on:
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pull_request:
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paths:
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- "research/psychsocio-metafauna/**"
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- "README.md"
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- ".github/workflows/psychsocio-metafauna.yml"
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push:
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branches: [main]
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paths:
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- "research/psychsocio-metafauna/**"
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- "README.md"
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- ".github/workflows/psychsocio-metafauna.yml"
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permissions:
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contents: read
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jobs:
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contracts:
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runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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steps:
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- uses: actions/checkout@v6
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- uses: actions/setup-python@v6
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with:
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python-version: "3.12"
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- name: Validate psychsocio-metafauna boundaries
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run: python -m unittest discover -s research/psychsocio-metafauna/tests -q

README.md

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│ ├── edcm/ # current EDCM research + BASE.json
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│ ├── pcea/ # current PCEA research + BASE.json
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│ ├── ptcna/ # current PTCNA research + BASE.json
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│ └── epac/ # emerging composed project; no independent repo yet
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│ ├── epac/ # emerging composed project; no independent repo yet
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│ └── psychsocio-metafauna/ # proposed pattern-lineage, coalescence, accountability research
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├── ahbg/ # emerging composed benchmark/game workspace
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├── backend/ # PostgreSQL-backed durable fresh-making control plane
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├── frontend/
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package/release it, then let stack consume the released project rather than a hidden
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EPAC is currently in this pre-graduation state.
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EPAC and psychsocio metafauna are currently in this pre-graduation state.
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### Make derived artifacts fresh without depending on hosted CI
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{
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"schema": "the-interdependency.domain-claim",
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"version": "0.1.0",
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage",
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"surface_form": "psychsocio metafauna",
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"claiming_domain": "psychsocio-metafauna",
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"claimed_sense": "A substrate-portable, multiply instantiated thought-pattern lineage that preserves recognizable identity across transmission, can couple to identity-maintaining processes in hosts, and can modify host behavior in ways that affect its own persistence or reproduction.",
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"scope": "Social-cognitive, cultural, institutional, and agent-mediated symbolic systems; including beneficial, neutral, harmful, and mixed host-pattern relations.",
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"claim_type": "provisional cross-domain hypothesis",
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"claim_status": "stack-local research; not canon; not diagnosis; not a human classifier",
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"authority_source": {
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"kind": "operator-authored proposal",
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"author": "Erin Spencer",
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"date": "2026-09-04",
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"repository_record": "research/psychsocio-metafauna/",
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"immutable_transcript_identity": "hmmm"
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},
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"included_uses": [
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"distinguishing one symbolic instance from a pattern lineage across instances",
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"describing host-pattern coupling without assuming consciousness in the pattern",
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"testing whether specific damage topologies preferentially increase susceptibility to compatible pattern affordances",
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"testing nonlinear coalescence, persistence, hysteresis, reproduction, and repair",
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"allocating causal contribution and possible accountability among hosts, designers, amplifiers, institutions, and candidate distributed agents",
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"self-auditing The Interdependent Way and its implementations under the same criteria"
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],
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"excluded_uses": [
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"diagnosing a person, community, religion, ideology, or political group as infected",
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"inferring trauma, incapacity, hidden state, intention, or diminished accountability from belief or disagreement",
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"treating persuasion, adoption, conviction, reproduction, or social similarity alone as identity capture",
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"using UCNS geometry, EDCM readouts, model agreement, or implementation persistence as automatic proof of the theory",
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"targeting people by vulnerability, optimizing coercive influence, forced deconversion, or suppressing lawful belief",
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"claiming that a lineage possesses an accountable I merely because it has recognizable identity"
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],
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"defined_terms": [
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-instance",
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"sense": "One embodied registration of a lineage in speech, text, ritual, image, software, institution, model state, memory, or behavior."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage",
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"sense": "The recoverable invariants joining related instances across transmission, mutation, embodiment, and time."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.host-pattern-coupling",
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"sense": "A relation in which a reconstructed pattern participates in a host's identity maintenance, interpretation, or policy selection."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.identity-capture",
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"sense": "A proposed subtype of host-pattern coupling in which defense or reproduction of a lineage becomes bound to identity maintenance while capacities to inspect, revise, refuse, or exit are materially narrowed."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.coalescence-site",
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"sense": "A compatibility relation between a host's current susceptibility topology and a lineage's affordance profile."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.coalescence-event",
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"sense": "A proposed threshold crossing at which several compatible host-pattern couplings become mutually reinforcing."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.capture-basin",
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"sense": "A self-maintaining host-pattern configuration that persists after the initiating exposure or condition is reduced."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.accountable-i",
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"sense": "A candidate coherency state among coupled arity sets capable of not-self(self) internal modeling, integrated policy selection, counterfactual revision, and enough causal persistence for action attribution."
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},
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{
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"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.repair",
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"sense": "Restoration or enlargement of inspectability, plurality, refusal, revision, safe exit, and accountable action; not compulsory abandonment of a belief."
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}
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],
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"nearby_terms": [
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{
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"term": "meme / memetics",
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"distinction": "Nearby transmission vocabulary; psychsocio metafauna additionally requires explicit lineage identity, host coupling, coalescence, accountability, and repair boundaries."
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},
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{
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"term": "cultural attractor",
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"distinction": "Nearby account of recurrent cultural forms; this proposal separately models identity capture and distributed accountability."
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},
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{
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"term": "ideology",
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"distinction": "A content or doctrine class that may instantiate a lineage but is not synonymous with the lineage relation."
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},
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{
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"term": "egregore / group mind",
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"distinction": "Nearby folk or metaphysical vocabulary; no group consciousness is assumed."
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},
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{
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"term": "pathogen / parasite",
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"distinction": "Ecological analogy only. Harm is a host-pattern relation, not the defining essence of every lineage."
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},
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{
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"term": "collective or distributed agent",
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"distinction": "A possible higher-order status requiring additional evidence of boundary, memory, integrated policy, counterfactual revision, and causal persistence."
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}
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],
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"known_namespace_collisions": [
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{
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"surface": "megafauna",
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"boundary": "Established zoological term for large animals; not a synonym and not the intended spelling."
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},
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{
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"surface": "Meta/fauna",
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"boundary": "Existing artistic title and ordinary meta-plus-fauna construction; no conceptual authority or identity is claimed."
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},
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{
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"surface": "psychosocial",
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"boundary": "Established adjective. The proposal's surface form is intentionally 'psychsocio'; do not silently normalize it."
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},
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{
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"surface": "I",
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"boundary": "Here it denotes a candidate coherency event with declared capacities, not every grammatical first-person token or persistent identity."
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},
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{
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"surface": "capture",
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"boundary": "Here it denotes a proposed narrowing of identity-maintenance and revision capacities, not data capture, military capture, attention alone, or persuasion alone."
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}
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],
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"effective_version": "0.1.0",
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"hmmm": [
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"Canonical spelling, pluralization, and whether the directory name becomes an independent project name.",
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"Operational invariants sufficient to identify one lineage across substantial mutation.",
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"Validated separation of deep identification, adaptive commitment, dependency, and identity capture.",
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"The damage-affordance coupling matrix and whether susceptibility changes are directional, nonlinear, or context-specific.",
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"The existence, location, and hysteresis of coalescence thresholds.",
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"Criteria for accountable distributed I status.",
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"Ethically admissible empirical methods beyond synthetic and archival work.",
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"Exact current canonical source identity for The Interdependent Way self-audit."
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]
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}

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