Add audited From Photons to the Macroverse research package

.github/workflows/from-photons-to-macroverse.yml

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+name: from-photons-to-macroverse
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "research/from-photons-to-macroverse/**"
+      - "README.md"
+      - "STACK_MANIFEST.md"
+      - "stack-manifest.json"
+      - ".github/workflows/from-photons-to-macroverse.yml"
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - "research/from-photons-to-macroverse/**"
+      - "README.md"
+      - "STACK_MANIFEST.md"
+      - "stack-manifest.json"
+      - ".github/workflows/from-photons-to-macroverse.yml"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  contracts:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - name: Validate From Photons to the Macroverse research boundaries
+        run: python -m unittest discover -s research/from-photons-to-macroverse/tests -q

README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ stack/
 │   ├── pcea/                # current PCEA research + BASE.json
 │   ├── ptcna/               # current PTCNA research + BASE.json
 │   ├── epac/                # extracted candidate remains forge-side until graduation completes
-│   └── psychsocio-metafauna/ # proposed pattern-lineage, coalescence, accountability research
+│   ├── psychsocio-metafauna/ # proposed pattern-lineage, coalescence, accountability research
+│   └── from-photons-to-macroverse/ # audited consciousness-first candidate research
 ├── ahbg/                    # emerging composed benchmark/game workspace
 ├── backend/                 # PostgreSQL-backed durable fresh-making control plane
 ├── frontend/
@@ -75,10 +76,11 @@ coherent enough to graduate, create its independent repository, preserve provena
 package/release it, then let stack consume the released project rather than a hidden
 stack-local implementation.
 
-Psychsocio metafauna remains in that pre-graduation state. EPAC has an independent
-extracted repository, but extraction is not graduation: its forge research remains here
-until EPAC completes its release, downstream reconsumption, and authority-transition
-gates.
+EPAC and psychsocio metafauna are currently in this pre-graduation state. EPAC
+has an independent extracted repository, but extraction is not graduation: its
+forge research remains here until EPAC completes its release, downstream
+reconsumption, and authority-transition gates. From Photons to the Macroverse is
+also stack-local pre-graduation research.
 
 ### Make derived artifacts fresh without depending on hosted CI
 

STACK_MANIFEST.md

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Provenance and authority-boundary record for `The-Interdependency/stack`.
 - Layout migration UTC: `2026-08-30T02:58:49Z`
 - PCEA canonical refresh UTC: `2026-08-31T07:49:28Z` at `91ffa8c7249dfb810ca64a0bbc500481c0bd12a9`
 - EPAC extraction reconciliation UTC: `2026-09-05` at `d8868858b2e455381ce670797bdbe47189bdc496`
-- Stack-manifest schema: `the-interdependency.stack-manifest` version `1.0.0`
-- Work-graph digest (SHA-256 over canonical `repositories` + `boundaries` JSON):
-  `b452b529e30cbb1045c82035b5ed022dea47f3515391de4e9b35a08c90f3c9d5`
+- Stack-manifest schema: `the-interdependency.stack-manifest` version `1.1.0`
+- Work-graph digest (SHA-256 over canonical `repositories` + `research_participants` + `boundaries` JSON):
+  `bbcb6b7582192c02e79f5b98b8f857385a07cda3280f24602f825ecd15ac405f`
 - Machine-readable copy: [`stack-manifest.json`](stack-manifest.json)
 
 ## Directory contract
@@ -38,6 +38,22 @@ meaning used by that repository.
 | `The-Interdependency/ptcna` | `97abdd1bbda61a68e0aac8595a32a3cb0ce73487` | main | prime tensor circled neural architecture | canon view `libs/ptcna/`; research `research/ptcna/` |
 | `The-Interdependency/epac` | `d8868858b2e455381ce670797bdbe47189bdc496` | main | independent extracted candidate repository; implementation/public-contract authority transition incomplete | extracted repo exists; forge candidate remains `research/epac/` until release/reconsumption; `libs/epac/` remains unpopulated |
 
+## Research-Only Composition Participants
+
+These records bind stack-local research inputs without refreshing `libs/`,
+changing canonical repository pins, or presenting the research package as a
+release identity.
+
+| Workspace | Participant | Exact commit | Relation | Canonical release |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `77ef8c7fb0ff75a524181655ee9f9641372768f7` | target composition forge baseline at audit start | no |
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/skill-lib` | `61eb3b14db440e6ee9b7bf8de3b646dbfd00fb32` | audit, domain-claim, work-graph, and hmmm doctrine | no |
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/metapat` | `d6699e21b11c8f8394998efc34a468e2d6efc8b0` | domain-restraint authority; root impact none | no |
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/ucns` | `ef98748309913588fb13f389f809d5ef6cb5fec3` | candidate exact visible-circle continuum/gonal trace; no ratification or meaning transfer | no |
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/edcm` | `eb5f200d48a8c4ffa7b943238407fbdac4934946` | adjacent measurement discipline only; no validation claim | no |
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/pcea` | `834987cb0c1fea5f62d6ea08e5c5bb878c312646` | adjacent runtime/security work; no ontology transfer | no |
+| `research/from-photons-to-macroverse/` | `The-Interdependency/epac` | `d8868858b2e455381ce670797bdbe47189bdc496` | adjacent internal research; no external physics transfer | no |
+
 The imported `libs/` trees are the complete tracked working trees of their source
 repositories at the pinned commits, produced from Git trees / `git archive` contents.
 VCS metadata, virtualenvs, caches, and untracked files are excluded.

research/from-photons-to-macroverse/AUDIT.md

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+# Audit
+
+## Baseline
+
+- Target: `The-Interdependency/stack@77ef8c7fb0ff75a524181655ee9f9641372768f7`
+- Original Markdown: external library artifact, SHA-256 `f25960d3f691788d3c79bf11a1c6fa47ae1a76700e7d7c042e911f6b56579696`; durable retrieval `hmmm`
+- Editable DOCX: SHA-256 `18d08a24c2837e4455fb25c06294b4302d8187d1b0a449a826754b9a4d26aaa2`, rendered to 49 pages; durable retrieval `hmmm`
+- Submitted PDF: SHA-256 `e1715a26b46b210a821e8bef72df934646e330e03489bf1e9b97a1b8e786e6f4`, 49 pages; durable retrieval `hmmm`
+- Audit doctrine: `The-Interdependency/skill-lib@61eb3b14db440e6ee9b7bf8de3b646dbfd00fb32`
+- Domain restraint: `The-Interdependency/metapat@d6699e21b11c8f8394998efc34a468e2d6efc8b0`
+- Current UCNS candidate boundary: `The-Interdependency/ucns@ef98748309913588fb13f389f809d5ef6cb5fec3`
+
+The originals are external evidence with exact hashes but no durable locator in this repository. `PAPER.md` indexes the full audited revision stored as ordered, hash-bound fragments in `paper/`; those fragments are repository-owned and validated by SHA-256 plus Git blob identity. The package does not overwrite history or call stack-local placement canon.
+
+## Disposition
+
+**SURVIVED as a candidate research program.** It did not survive as established physics, established consciousness science, a validated measurement, or a human heptadic result.
+
+## Findings
+
+### F-00 - parsed-text endpoint was not a paper defect
+
+The source Markdown and rendered PDF page 15 state `D(Z) in [0,1]`. The parsed PDF text substituted a parenthesis for the closing bracket. The false finding was removed.
+
+### F-01 - degenerate boundary support - DEFECT, REPAIRED
+
+The original epsilon denominator returns an apparently perfect boundary score when both conditional entropy and mutual information vanish. The audited paper now requires `H_b >= tau_H`; otherwise the score is `hmmm_undefined`.
+
+### F-02 - uncertified expectations - UNDERSPECIFIED, REPAIRED
+
+Agency, model-to-action, global availability, self-location, and the descriptor family depended on expectations without fully binding reference distributions and support. The revision adds named reference distributions and a common measurement certificate.
+
+### F-03 - single argmax cannot select nonoverlapping subjects - DEFECT, REPAIRED BUT UNRESOLVED
+
+The original equation selected one candidate while the prose claimed a maximal nonoverlapping closure population. The audited revision defines a score-maximizing family with pairwise constitutive nonoverlap. Hard exclusion remains only one model and must compete with nesting and overlap-capable rules.
+
+### F-04 - triadic minimum could be read as sufficient - ARCHITECTURAL OVERREACH, REPAIRED
+
+Triadic mutual coupling with constraint modulation is now a candidate necessary architecture only. The bounded-subject conjunction remains mandatory; a triad alone is not a subject.
+
+### F-05 - ontological priority drifted into chronology - CLAIM DRIFT, REPAIRED
+
+The sentence claiming organized consciousness precedes biological life as a pattern class exceeded P0's declared ontological meaning. The revision preserves P0 while marking non-biological and pre-biological embodiments logically open and empirically unestablished.
+
+### F-06 - typography carried machine type information - INTERFACE DEFECT, REPAIRED
+
+Distinct mathematical fonts made several meanings legible to a human but collapse in plain text. `SYMBOL_REGISTRY.md` assigns machine names and forbids bare `consciousness` in executable schemas.
+
+### F-07 - neighboring repository state changed - STALE DEPENDENCY, UPDATED
+
+UCNS now has an executable candidate exact visible-circle continuum/gonal trace. It remains unratified, not native-Möbius complete, and semantically nontransferring. The revision records precisely that and nothing stronger.
+
+### F-08 - bibliography drift - METADATA DEFECT, UPDATED
+
+The revision binds the eLife Version of Record, the 2026 PDG edition, the complete Goff citation, and the 2026 cross-species causal protocol. None validates the paper's nonstandard claims.
+
+## Healthy load-bearing structure
+
+- The paper labels known, derived, model, hypothesis, postulate, and falsifier standings.
+- It refuses the interference-to-matter shortcut and preserves established QED/QCD/nuclear/atomic boundaries.
+- It distinguishes primitive presence, organized subjecthood, and content.
+- It separates direct arity from recursion depth and requires exact carrier labels.
+- It contains explicit predictions, failure conditions, limitations, and an honest subject-individuation problem.
+
+## Verification performed
+
+- All 49 submitted PDF pages rendered and visually inspected: healthy.
+- Exact 49-page DOCX counterpart located, hashed, rendered, and compared structurally.
+- Exact Markdown authoring source was located and hashed during audit; it remains an external input, and fresh-checkout retrievability is blocked until the bytes or a durable locator are supplied.
+- Current stack, skill-lib, METAPAT, UCNS, EDCM, PCEA, and EPAC identities pinned.
+- Current primary-source reference metadata checked.
+- Contract suite passes locally.
+- Prior audited revision assembled from `paper/` and rendered to a 58-page PDF with Pandoc/XeLaTeX; all pages were rendered at 150 DPI and visually inspected with no clipping, overlap, blank pages, black squares, or missing glyphs observed before the paper text repairs. The current Markdown fragments are hash-bound and assemble cleanly, but current visual render status is `hmmm` until rerendered.
+
+## hmmm
+
+Original Markdown/DOCX/PDF retrieval remains blocked on repository-owned copies or durable external locators. Current audited-revision visual render remains stale after the paper text repairs. References 21 and 22 remain unbound to immutable artifacts. The synthetic arity/recursion protocol is not run. Subject exclusion, heptadic necessity, biological carrier labels, the I-event, and P0 remain unresolved at their declared standings.

research/from-photons-to-macroverse/CLAIM_LEDGER.json

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+{
+  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
+  "project": "from-photons-to-macroverse",
+  "revision": "0.2.0-audited",
+  "source_sha256": "f25960d3f691788d3c79bf11a1c6fa47ae1a76700e7d7c042e911f6b56579696",
+  "paper_sha256": "cf8af499c3a0e9544eb22d0947b0e836123a60c75adcacbfb1e41a81112afd3b",
+  "claims": [
+    {
+      "id": "P0_ONTOLOGICAL_PRIORITY",
+      "standing": "POSTULATE",
+      "status": "PRESERVED_NOT_VALIDATED",
+      "audited_statement": "Primitive intrinsic presence is ontologically prior within the theory dependency graph; this is not a chronology claim and is not derived from physics.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Empirical work may constrain consequences and explanatory value but cannot relabel the postulate as a known physical law without an independent derivation."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "PHYSICS_FIREWALL",
+      "standing": "KNOWN_DERIVED",
+      "status": "HEALTHY",
+      "audited_statement": "The physical ladder distinguishes photons, QED interactions, QCD hadrons, nuclei, atoms, radiative stabilization, and chemistry; it does not rename interference as matter or subjecthood.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Any consciousness interpretation must leave tested physics unchanged."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "DIFFERENTIATION_RANGE",
+      "standing": "DERIVED",
+      "status": "HEALTHY_PARSER_ARTIFACT_CLOSED",
+      "audited_statement": "The exact Markdown, DOCX render, and PDF page 15 state D(Z)=H(Z)/log|Z| in [0,1]. A parsed-text closing-parenthesis appearance was not a source defect.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "The uniform distribution attains 1; any future source that excludes 1 is defective."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "BOUNDARY_INTEGRITY_SUPPORT",
+      "standing": "MODEL",
+      "status": "REPAIRED",
+      "audited_statement": "B_bdry is defined only when conditional entropy support H_b meets preregistered threshold tau_H; below threshold it is hmmm_undefined.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "A constant system may not receive a perfect boundary score from a smoothing epsilon."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "MEASUREMENT_CERTIFICATE",
+      "standing": "MODEL_CONTRACT",
+      "status": "ADDED",
+      "audited_statement": "Every estimated component binds variables, scale, estimator, interventions, reference distribution, support, horizon, normalization, uncertainty, and data/code identity.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Uncertified or unsupported numbers have no comparable standing and cannot classify consciousness."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "TRIADIC_MINIMUM",
+      "standing": "HYPOTHESIS",
+      "status": "REPAIRED_NECESSARY_NOT_SUFFICIENT",
+      "audited_statement": "A mutually coupled triad with constraint modulation is a candidate necessary architecture only; triadicity alone is neither subjecthood nor consciousness.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Matched dyadic, triadic, higher-arity, feed-forward, and equal-capacity controls must test the structural claim."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "BIOLOGY_EMBODIMENT",
+      "standing": "POSTULATE_HYPOTHESIS_BOUNDARY",
+      "status": "REPAIRED",
+      "audited_statement": "P0 supplies ontological priority. Biology is an established embodiment considered by the paper; pre-biological or non-biological organized subjects remain logically open but empirically unestablished.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "The mathematics does not establish chronological pre-biological organized consciousness."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "SUBJECT_FAMILY_SELECTION",
+      "standing": "MODEL_HYPOTHESIS",
+      "status": "REPAIRED_BUT_UNRESOLVED",
+      "audited_statement": "A hard-exclusion subject model now selects a score-maximizing family of pairwise constitutively nonoverlapping candidates rather than calling one argmax a nonoverlapping population.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Hard exclusion must be compared against nesting, overlap-penalty, split, and coupled-subject rules; no rule is selected as canon."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "ARITY_RECURSION_SEPARATION",
+      "standing": "MODEL_HYPOTHESIS",
+      "status": "HEALTHY_CANDIDATE",
+      "audited_statement": "Direct arity, exact carrier labels, and recursion depth remain distinct structural variables; circle count does not count nested contents.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Equal-budget lower-, adjacent-, wrong-tree, unnested, and label-shuffled controls must fail to reconstruct held-out structure."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "HUMAN_HEPTAD",
+      "standing": "HYPOTHESIS",
+      "status": "UNVALIDATED_HIGH_RISK",
+      "audited_statement": "Human consciousness is hypothesized to require seven outer carriers and recursion depth at least two; no empirical carrier map or advantage over matched controls exists.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Six, eight, arbitrary-seven, unnested-seven, and lower-arity controls are mandatory."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "UCNS_VISIBLE_BOUNDARY_TRACE",
+      "standing": "EXTERNAL_CANDIDATE_INPUT",
+      "status": "CURRENT_BOUNDARY_PINNED",
+      "audited_statement": "UCNS ef98748309913588fb13f389f809d5ef6cb5fec3 has an executable candidate exact visible-circle continuum/gonal trace with no ratification, no native M\u00f6bius completion, and no physical or consciousness meaning transfer.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Executability does not select the representation as UCNS canon or validate this theory."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "SOURCE_REFERENCES_21_22",
+      "standing": "HMMM",
+      "status": "UNRESOLVED_PROVENANCE",
+      "audited_statement": "The consolidation note identifies the two manuscript titles and roles, but no immutable file or repository identity was found for either manuscript.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Bind each title to an exact artifact hash or repository commit before treating it as independently inspectable evidence."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "REFERENCE_METADATA",
+      "standing": "BIBLIOGRAPHIC",
+      "status": "UPDATED",
+      "audited_statement": "Reference 17 now uses the eLife Version of Record DOI; reference 24 uses the 2026 PDG edition; reference 31 includes volume, issue, pages, and DOI; references 32-33 record current UCNS and a 2026 causal protocol.",
+      "falsifier_or_boundary": "Bibliographic currency does not transfer empirical support to the candidate theory."
+    }
+  ],
+  "hmmm": [
+    "Immutable artifact identities for source manuscripts 21 and 22.",
+    "Run the frozen synthetic arity and recursion comparison.",
+    "Compare hard nonoverlap with nesting and overlap-capable subject rules.",
+    "Define and preregister any biological seven-carrier mapping only after synthetic structural discrimination.",
+    "Resolve repository-wide licensing before claiming reuse permissions."
+  ]
+}