Falsifiability and Predictions
In this document:
- , — density matrix, reduced density matrix of the Interiority dimension
- — context (states of all dimensions except )
- — eigenvalues of (intensities)
- L0, L1, L2 — interiority hierarchy levels
- — Fubini-Study metric
- , — threshold values
Falsification Criteria
Head-to-head predictions against competing theories at every live experimental frontier — Frontier Ledger.
Experimental Predictions
The extended theory makes testable predictions:
1. Isospectral discrimination
Two states , with but should yield:
- Identical experience intensity (spectrum determines intensity)
- Distinguishable experience quality (eigenvectors determine quality)
Numerical criteria:
- Spectra 'identical':
- Vectors 'distinguishable': , where
- Quality 'distinguishable': rad
Test: Create isospectral neural states, measure phenomenal reports.
2. Contextual modulation
Changing context with fixed should alter the quality of experience without changing intensity.
Numerical criteria:
- 'fixed':
- Context 'changed':
- Intensity 'constant':
- Quality 'changed': phenomenal report distinguishable with (statistical test)
Test: Modulate context (attention, mood) at constant stimulus, measure changes in perceptual quality.
3. Adaptation dynamics
Experiential content (levels L1–L2) should follow the adaptation law:
where:
- — subjective experience intensity at time
- — maximum eigenvalue of
- — average over adaptation period
This prediction follows from the fact that perception encodes changes relative to baseline (Weber-Fechner law), not absolute values.
Numerical criteria:
- Correlation
- Regression slope (close to 1)
- RMSE (error less than half the standard deviation)
- Adaptation period ms (typical range)
Test: Measure the temporal dynamics of adaptation, compare with prediction.
4. Metric relations
Distances in phenomenal space (L1) should correspond to the Fubini-Study metric:
where — equivalence class in projective space.
Numerical criteria:
- Spearman correlation
- Monotonicity: violations of the total number of pairs
- Metric consistency: (triangle inequality)
- MDS reconstruction: stress when mapping to
Test: Build a phenomenal quality map (L1), compare with predicted geometry.
Refutation Criterion
The theory is falsified if:
where:
- — full invariant
- — experience functor
That is, if two states with identical full invariants (spectrum + eigenvectors + context + history) yield distinguishable experience.
The -rigidity theorem [T] refines the notion of 'identity': two states are considered physically identical if for some in the finite octonionic frame group — a relabelling of the functional axes (frame decision D-0910). The full invariant is therefore defined on (48 parameters); its -orbit part (34 parameters: spectrum and -relative angles) is invariant even before the frame is pinned. The eigenvectors in the table below are taken in the pinned functional frame; under a relabelling the inner products are unchanged.
Operational tolerances:
| Invariant component | 'Identity' criterion |
|---|---|
| Spectrum | |
| Eigenvectors | |
| Context | |
| History |
| Interiority | 'Distinguishability' criterion |
|---|---|
| Phenomenal report | Statistically distinguishable (, Wilcoxon test) |
| Behavioural marker | AUC > 0.7 in discrimination task |
For experimental verification it is sufficient to compare the spectrum and eigenvectors (without history): if and , but , the theory is falsified.
Spectrum and eigenvectors determine , and together with complete the state. The criterion above therefore says that experience is a function of the full state — a supervenience claim. It is falsifiable only jointly with a fixed reconstruction protocol (frame pinned by the frame decision D-0910, gauge-fixing choices published per R8), and by itself it does not predict which experience a state carries. The theory's contentful falsifiers are the numerical ones: and the monotone –PCI relation (P8.3) in the measurement protocol, the No-Zombie simulation criterion S1–S3 in CC Theorems, and the physics rows of the frontier ledger. Where these numerical falsifiers stand against the substitution argument of Kleiner & Hoel is a theorem of the measurement protocol: calibration on report-labelled sessions is on the strict-dependence horn, a test with parameters frozen in advance is on the independence horn, and a lenient dependency exists at best inside a declared domain [H]. Until 2026-09-25 the reference estimator of contained a viability penalty that reconstructed every sub-threshold state of the uniform family at exactly, so could not be observed; the penalty is removed (SUB-2).
The full invariant is a theoretical ideal. Operational realisation:
- Spec(ρ): measurable via quantum state tomography
- Eigvec(ρ): measurable via full tomography (neural correlates)
- Γ_{-E}: approximately measurable via partial trace — discarding the E-component
- Hist: approximated via time correlators (two-point functions, accessible via fMRI/EEG)
The falsification criterion is strict in the theoretical sense and approximate in the experimental sense. This is the standard situation for theories with directly unobservable objects (cf. the wave function in QM).
See also: КК falsification criteria — additional operational criteria for the applied theory.
Current Empirical Status
| Prediction | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Isospectral discrimination | Open | Requires neurophenomenological experiments |
| Contextual modulation | Partially confirmed | Consistent with attention influence data |
| Adaptation dynamics | Consistent | Consistent with Weber-Fechner law |
| Metric relations | Open | Requires phenomenal space mapping (L1) |
| Functional purity | Programme | for of functioning systems |
| P-quality correlation | Programme | Correlation of with functional quality: |
| F-m_t: GeV | Consistent | Observation: GeV |
| F-Cabibbo: | Withdrawn (T-345(e)) | Observation: () |
| F-δ_CP: | Withdrawn (T-345(e)) | Observation: (LHCb tree, ICHEP 2024); (PDG 2024 fit) |
| F-Gap-1: Gap_intra < Gap_inter | Open; machine check narrowed the scope | Requires ISF analysis of fMRI. Machine check: across 180 construction-layer natal Γ the gauge-invariant triangle holonomy on the 7 canonical oriented Fano lines is statistically indistinguishable from the 28 non-lines (t ≈ +1.0, difference +0.03 ± 0.39 rad) — consistent with the earlier amplitude-covariance null: the Fano structure is dynamical wiring (what the dissipator preserves), not a static imprint on natal Γ. The signature should be sought in states that have passed through the Fano channel (live dynamics, fMRI) — not in the construction. Note: the pairwise Gap_intra/Gap_inter form is not literally operational — in the Fano plane every pair lies on exactly one line, so there are no inter-triplet pairs; the testable form is triple holonomy (7 lines vs 28 non-lines). Machine-probed. |
| F-ISF: 6–12 ISF components | Open | Requires systematic fMRI analysis |
| F-ξ: pc | Open | Testable through LSS surveys |
| F-nEDM: (T-99) | Withdrawn (T-99 corrected, 2026-09-26; was "Consistent") | e·cm (PSI 2020); UHM predicts no value — is a free parameter |
| F-τ_p: years | Open | Hyper-K: sensitivity years |
| F-Higgs: – | Open | Awaiting FCC-hh |
| F-Gap-2: block transparency | Open | Requires coherence-resolved fMRI; the same caveat as F-Gap-1 — the signature lives in states that have passed through the Fano channel, not in the construction |
| F-rank7: 14 exact sum-rules | Open | Needs Γ-native rate tomography; no experiment has probed the 7-dimensional incidence subspace |
| F-Neural: threshold at | Open | Untested. The testable bridge is a concordance of verdicts with on the same sessions (P8.4, SUB-5 of the measurement protocol); the entry read "Partial — clinical PCI threshold 0.31 maps to " until 2026-09-25, but no such mapping is derived: the two numbers live on unrelated scales |
| F-w: no Big Rip, -crossing only | Consistent | DESI DR2 quadrant and phantom→quintessence orientation match at –; the reality of the crossing is not yet established non-parametrically |
| F-Band: , | Consistent | Zero counterexamples over states per band, and both bands are attained — an internal falsifier needing no bridge assumption |
Falsifiable predictions from Fano integration
Predictions are derived from the integration of Fano geometry with Gap dynamics, Gap thermodynamics, and RG flow. Each prediction is assigned a rigour status in accordance with the registry.
F-Gap-1: Intra-triplet Gap below inter-triplet
The mean Gap within Fano triplets is lower than between them. Coherences belonging to the same Fano line are more transparent (closer to ) than coherences connecting different lines.
Testability: ISF components (independent slow features) in fMRI. Intra-triplet correlations should systematically exceed inter-triplet correlations.
Status: [H] Hypothesis — consequence of Gap semantics and G₂-covariance.
F-Gap-2: Block transparency by Fano triplets
Coherences within the same Fano line are more strongly correlated, forming a block structure in the coherence matrix . The Fano dissipator preserves triplet coherences ([T], G₂-structure), generating distinguished block transparency.
Testability: Correlation analysis of the coherence matrix — 7 blocks of (by Fano lines) should be statistically separated from off-block elements.
Status: [T] Theorem — consequence of theorems 10.1–10.3 (Fano channel preserves coherences, status registry).
F-ξ: Fano correlation length
The correlation length of Fano structure in large-scale structure. The scale is determined by RG suppression of the cubic coupling and the phase diagram of the Gap potential.
Testability: Large-scale structure of the Universe — correlation function on scales – pc. Absence of a preferred scale pc falsifies the prediction.
Status: [T] Theorem — theorems 9.1–9.2 (status registry).
F-τ_p: Proton lifetime
The proton lifetime, computed from the masses of -leptoquarks via the Gap hierarchy.
Testability: Hyper-Kamiokande experiment (sensitivity up to years). Current Super-K limit: years. The prediction lies 2–3 orders of magnitude above Hyper-K sensitivity — direct detection of decay at this is unlikely, but detection of decay at years falsifies the prediction.
The prediction – years exceeds the sensitivity of Hyper-K ( years for ) by 2–3 orders of magnitude. Direct verification is impossible in the foreseeable future. Indirect constraints are possible via neutron-antineutron oscillations.
Status: [H] Hypothesis — depends on the precision of the computation (proton decay).
F-m_t: Exactly one Yukawa (top)
The unique Fano–Higgs line admits a tree-level Yukawa coupling only for the third generation — hence exactly one Yukawa in the spectrum [T]. The Pendleton–Ross IR quasi-fixed point overshoots (– GeV); the physical top sits below the attractor, so the numerical GeV is a boundary condition, status [C] (Yukawa hierarchy).
Testability: the [T] part is falsified by discovery of a second Yukawa coupling (e.g. a fourth-generation or vector-like quark with coupling to the same Higgs), or by drifting far from . The [C] part is falsified by a significant shift of (current: GeV).
Status: "exactly one Yukawa" — [T]; numerical — [C]. Current verdict: PASSING (one and only one Yukawa observed; ).
F-ISF: ISF components in fMRI
The number of ISF components (independent slow features) in fMRI data is determined by the opacity rank of the Gap operator. At full transparency (all ) the rank is 0 and all 21 coherences are active; at full opacity the rank is maximal (21). For biologically realistic regimes the rank is –, giving to active independent components.
Testability: ISF component analysis of fMRI data. Systematic detection of or falsifies the prediction. The dependence of on the state of consciousness (wakefulness / sleep / anaesthesia) should correlate with the rank of the Gap operator.
Status: [H] Hypothesis — consequence of Gap dynamics and the interiority hierarchy.
F-Neural: Neural correlates of L-levels [C with bridge assumption]
The form of scaling relations (threshold at , monotonic dependence of on connectivity) is derived [C with bridge assumption]. Numerical coefficients are empirical. Experimental protocol: fMRI/EEG during anaesthesiawakefulness transitions to verify the threshold.
Testability: Measurement of the jump under pharmacological control of anaesthesia depth (sevoflurane, propofol). Prediction: existence of a sharp transition , not gradual sliding. The dependence is monotonic.
Status: [C with bridge assumption] — the scaling form is derived from theory; numerical coefficients require empirical calibration.
Bridge to PCI (2026-09-25). On UHM's side the thresholds are tied without data: (T-129a), and on the uniform diagonal the window is exactly [T]. No numerical conversion between PCI and exists; the test is the concordance of with on the sessions of Casarotto et al. (2016), with the reconstruction frozen on wakefulness alone — the REM and ketamine sessions (consciousness without behaviour) are the out-of-sample cases — and the prediction that low-complexity responses split into two UHM signatures ( for local responses, for stereotyped global ones) [H]. Details: measurement protocol, Step 5 and the substitution theorem.
F-Higgs: Higgs self-coupling deviation
The octonionic correction to the Higgs sector modifies the Higgs self-coupling at the level of – relative to the Standard Model prediction.
Testability: FCC-hh collider (sensitivity to several percent). If FCC-hh measures with precision and detects a deviation of order — that is confirmation. Absence of deviations at precision — falsification.
Status: [H] Hypothesis — depends on non-perturbative computations in the Higgs sector.
F-δ_CP: CKM CP-phase from the Fano phase
The CKM matrix CP-phase is derived from the geometric phase of the Fano plane. The cleanest tree-level determination — the LHCb combination at ICHEP 2024 — gives ; the PDG 2024 global fit gives . Against the direct value the predicted deviates by only (); against the fit, by (). The older "" figure is superseded.
Testability: Refinement of the experimental value at LHCb and Belle II. The prediction is falsified if settles beyond from (i.e. outside ).
Status: [✗] Withdrawn 2026-09-26 (T-345(e)); it was [H] with verdict PASSING. The agreement with the data stands, the derivation does not: the value came from a PT-odd cubic , and every -invariant cubic is PT-even (T-331); the "two-loop correction" of that brought down to is absent in the Standard Model, where changes by between and GeV; the Fritzsch texture it assumed gives against . Uncorrected, the Fano phase gives , from the data. The criterion is kept here as a record, not as a prediction. What the clock register can and cannot supply for flavour is listed in CKM §11.
F-Cabibbo: Cabibbo angle from RG suppression of the Fano angle
The Cabibbo angle is derived from RG suppression of the fundamental Fano angle . Observed value: .
Testability: Consistent with current data (, corresponding to ). The prediction is falsified by a significant revision of .
Status: [✗] Withdrawn 2026-09-26 (T-345(e)); it was [H] with verdict PASSING. The suppression factor used fitted to , so the agreement is the fit; the cubic whose running supplied is retracted (T-331); and mixing angles do not run appreciably in the Standard Model ( changes by from to GeV). The Fano ratios also contradict the observed . The criterion is kept here as a record, not as a prediction.
Independently of the central value, first-row CKM unitarity currently shows a deficit: (the "Cabibbo Angle Anomaly", 2024–2026 lattice + /kaon determinations). UHM's fixed spectrum was read as a falsifiable prediction (T-265, CKM §10): the fundamental CKM is exactly unitary, so the deficit cannot be a mixing-matrix effect. Since 2026-09-25 T-265 is a hypothesis [H], because its exclusions have different standing: a fourth generation is excluded [C] at the identification of the three classes with the physical generations (row 43c; the count itself is [T]); vector-like quarks [H] — the chirality ground is retracted, since has eigenvalues and all representations are real; leptoquarks and extra bosons [H] — the "exactly Standard-Model gauge content" rests on (FE), [C at (FE)], and on T-297, [H]; MeV sterile neutrinos [C]. Read as a hypothesis, UHM expects the anomaly to resolve in the SM extraction sector (-box / nuclear radiative corrections, lattice form factors, the – tension), not via new states — and is falsified if the CAA is shown to require any such new state. The magnitude of the deficit is SM hadronic/nuclear physics and remains genuinely open [D]; the resolution-channel exclusion is [H] (it was labelled "[T-structural]+[C]" until 2026-09-25).
F-nEDM: Neutron EDM ( exactly)
The derivation of is retracted [✗]. Its step 4 is false for the cubic itself: on real states , and for every the vacuum has non-zero phases ( with at the page's constants). The corrected -invariant potential is PT-even and fixes no , and with the fields that (Cl) forces no Peccei–Quinn, Nelson–Barr or left–right route is available (Confinement §3.1c, T-333). is a free parameter, strong CP is open [Pr], and a measured would refute nothing in UHM. The agreement with e·cm no longer counts for the theory. The text below is kept as a record.
Prediction [T] (T-99): exactly (structural proof), not . Neutron electric dipole moment:
Current experimental limit: e·cm (PSI 2020), i.e. e·cm — consistent with the predicted strict zero. n2EDM (PSI) began commissioning data-taking in late 2024 (>50% design UCN flux, systematics verified below e·cm) and targets e·cm after ~500 days — the decisive near-term test. nEDM@SNS aims further, at e·cm.
Falsification: Detection of at any level → direct refutation of T-99.
Difference from axion solution: The axion allows — non-zero, albeit ultra-small. Gap theory predicts a strict zero.
Status: [✗] Withdrawn 2026-09-26 (T-99 corrected, Confinement §3.1c); it read "[T] Theorem — T-99" with verdict PASSING, and [C at (SV)] from 2026-09-25 in the registry (status registry, confinement). The criterion is kept here as a record, not as a prediction.
F-w: Dark-energy drift shape (Λ-drift law)
Prediction (T-254 [T] / T-255 [Т-structural]+[C]). The dark-energy equation of state is a state functional, not a dial: with the positive floor . Consequences, branch-independent: no Big Rip (unbounded phantom excluded), no vacuum-driven collapse (), asymptotically. Branch-dependent: the DESI quadrant is reachable only through a genuine -crossing (oscillatory branch); the final crossing runs phantom → quintessence in the orientation fixed by the arrow of inner time [C]; the co-drift must carry the same sign as with magnitude .
Falsification criteria: (i) a confirmed permanent (constant non-cosmological-constant EoS across epochs at high significance); (ii) reconstructed growing without bound or crossing zero; (iii) the DESI CPL quadrant confirmed while non-parametric reconstruction excludes any -crossing; (iv) a final crossing in the direction opposite to the arrow (falsifies the [C]-link); (v) a confirmed drift with a measurement of the opposite sign (falsifies the co-drift).
Experiments: DESI DR2+, Euclid, Roman ( reconstruction); lunar laser ranging ().
Current verdict (2026): CONSISTENT — the DESI DR2 preference (March 2025; – for depending on the supernova sample) lies exactly in the only quadrant UHM reaches via a crossing, and the best-fit CPL trajectory runs phantom (past) → quintessence (today) with a -crossing near — the orientation UHM predicts. No Rip-like or permanent- signal; the co-drift sign test awaits a confirmed drift.
The phantom → quintessence crossing is inferred from the two-parameter CPL fit , not from a physical model. Non-parametric / model-independent reconstructions of do not yet robustly confirm a genuine -crossing — the feature is partly a parametrisation artifact, and the literature (2025–2026) treats its reality as unsettled. This matters for the [C]-link: UHM's falsification criterion (iii) — "DESI quadrant confirmed while reconstruction excludes any crossing" — is not triggered (reconstructions neither confirm nor exclude), so the prediction is safe but the key discriminator remains open. The quantitative discriminator to watch is whether the oscillatory (quintom-like) branch survives once reconstructions sharpen.
F-rank7: Rank-7 decoherence anisotropy
The twenty-one inter-channel decoherence rates are not free. Each pair meets exactly one Fano line, and the rate between them is fixed by the seven line rates through the incidence pattern alone. Twenty-one numbers determined by seven leaves fourteen exact sum-rules — a prediction with no adjustable parameters, which is why it is the sharpest structural test the theory offers.
Testability: rate tomography in the basis, in silico now and through PCI-style perturbation protocols later. The test is a projection: fit the measured and ask whether the residual off the seven-dimensional incidence subspace is statistically distinguishable from zero.
Falsified by: a significant residual outside that subspace. Unlike the neural predictions this needs no bridge assumption — it is a statement about the dissipator, testable wherever the dissipator can be measured.
Status: [T]+[C] — the sum-rules are proved (T-262, Prediction 23); the identification of a measured rate matrix with is the conditional part.
F-Band: the two sums of a living state
Every gate is a formula in three sums, of which two are , the purity of the diagonal, and , the total weight of the binding. Integration needs ; reflexivity needs ; and Cauchy–Schwarz needs of every state whatsoever. Chaining them confines both sums to narrow bands, the second exactly twice as wide as the first.
This is the theory's own internal falsifier, and it is unusually cheap to run: it needs no bridge assumption, no phenomenal mapping, and no experiment beyond computing two sums from a .
Falsified by: any state meeting all four criteria whose or falls outside its band — which would mean the four criteria are not what the three sums say they are. Or, from the other side, a system that independent measurement calls conscious whose reconstructed sits outside the bands — which would falsify the reconstruction rather than the algebra.
Testability: immediate in silico; through -reconstruction from fMRI or EEG once that reconstruction is trusted.
Status: [T] — zero counterexamples over twenty thousand states in each band, and both bands are attained rather than vacuous: a flat diagonal carrying balanced content at half strength lands inside (T-321, T-323).
Summary table of predictions
| Code | Prediction | Falsification criterion | Experiment | Status | Current verdict (2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-Gap-1 | Systematically | fMRI (ISF) | [H] | UNTESTED | |
| F-Gap-2 | Block transparency by Fano triplets | Absence of block structure in coherences | fMRI | [T] | UNTESTED |
| F-rank7 | Rank-7 decoherence anisotropy: the 21 inter-channel rates obey (14 exact sum-rules; Prediction 23, T-262) | A statistically significant residual off the 7-dim Fano incidence subspace | Γ-native rate tomography (in silico) / PCI-style perturbations | [T]+[C] | UNTESTED |
| F-ξ | pc | Absence of preferred scale pc | LSS surveys | [T] | UNTESTED |
| F-τ_p | years | years | Hyper-K | [H] | CONSISTENT (above sensitivity; ) |
| F-m_t | Exactly one Yukawa [T]; GeV [C] | A second Yukawa; significant shift | Colliders | [T]+[C] | PASSING (, unique) |
| F-ISF | 6–12 ISF components | fMRI | [H] | PARTIAL (canonical resting-state decompositions report 7–17 networks) | |
| F-Neural | Threshold , monotonic (connectivity) | Gradual transition without threshold | fMRI/EEG (anaesthesia) | [C with bridge] | UNTESTED (test: concordance of verdicts with PCI* = 0.31, SUB-5; "PARTIAL — PCI 0.31 maps to " withdrawn 2026-09-25) |
| F-Higgs | – | No deviations at precision | FCC-hh | [H] | UNTESTED (ATLAS+CMS 2025: — , far above the predicted band) |
| F-δ_CP | LHCb, Belle II | [✗] | WITHDRAWN (derivation retracted, T-345(e); data ) | ||
| F-Cabibbo | Significant revision of | Kaon experiments | [✗] | WITHDRAWN (fitted , T-345(e)) | |
| F-nEDM | (T-99: exactly) | at any level | n2EDM, nEDM@SNS | [✗] | WITHDRAWN (derivation retracted, T-99 corrected 2026-09-26; free; data cm; was [T], PASSING) |
| F-w | No Big Rip; no permanent ; DESI quadrant only via a -crossing; co-drift same-sign (T-254/T-255) | Permanent ; unbounded/negative ; crossing-free DESI quadrant; opposite co-drift sign | DESI/Euclid/Roman + LLR | [T]+[C] | CONSISTENT (DESI DR2 quadrant + phantom→quintessence orientation match, –; crossing reality not yet established non-parametrically) |
| F-Band | and for anything alive (T-321, T-323) | A state meeting all four criteria with either sum outside its band | Two sums computed from any | [T] | PASSING (zero counterexamples over states per band; both bands attained) |
Where the fourteen stand. Two PASSING, two CONSISTENT, two PARTIAL, five UNTESTED, three WITHDRAWN (F-δ_CP and F-Cabibbo, 2026-09-26: the numbers agree with the data, but their derivations are retracted, T-345(e); F-nEDM, 2026-09-26: is not derived and is a free parameter, T-99 corrected). Until 2026-09-26 the count read three PASSING and two WITHDRAWN, with F-nEDM among the passing. Nothing has moved to FAIL: the five untested ones all wait on instruments that do not yet exist at the needed precision (coherence-resolved fMRI, -native rate tomography, LSS at pc, FCC-hh).
Verdict legend. PASSING — measured value lies inside the pass band; CONSISTENT — not excluded, but the prediction lies beyond current sensitivity; PARTIAL — indirect or calibration-dependent support; UNTESTED — no experiment has probed the band yet; WITHDRAWN — the derivation is retracted, so agreement with the data no longer counts for the theory. A single entry moving to FAIL falsifies the corresponding claim at its stated status level ([T]/[C]/[H]).
Predictions marked [T] are based on rigorously proved theorems (see status registry). The octonionic bridge is closed with the canonical orientation of the Fano lines: [T] (T15, T15-canon, registry row 41n; it read "fully closed [T]" until 2026-09-25 without the orientation step, then [C at (Alt)] the same day). Predictions marked [H] require additional computations or contain gaps in the physical arguments.
Completeness of Theory
The theory is complete in the following sense:
- Self-sufficiency: Requires no external postulates or references
- Universality: Applicable to structural aspects of self-referential systems — from quantum to cognitive
- Internal consistency: Contains no contradictions
- Operationality: Can be computationally implemented
- Explanatory power: Resolves traditional philosophical problems
- Falsifiability: Makes testable predictions about the structure of experience
- Formal rigour: Key theorems proved (7D minimality, operator φ, functor F)
- Compatibility with QM: the regenerative term keeps the marginal identity [T] (CPTP property of , conditions NS1-NS3); no-signalling of the full dynamics is [T]: it holds in the non-selective reading, and the axioms force that reading (Theorem 8.5) — the Lüders-conditioned regeneration, under which the gate would signal, is not a UHM dynamics (this item read [C] until 2026-09-25; an earlier item called no-signalling a consequence of the CPTP structure, which is retracted)
- Ensemble independence: the evolution map is a function of (density matrix), not of its decomposition [D]; the physical reading "two preparations of the same evolve identically" is retracted
- Computational consistency: the claim that the nonlinearity gives no acceleration beyond BQP is retracted: the ideal regenerative dynamics decides satisfiability in time linear in (Theorem 8.6 [T]), so "≤ BQP" would imply NP ⊆ BQP; what noise leaves of the speed-up is open [H] (this item called the whole question open [H] until 2026-09-26)
Vulnerability analysis
Systematic analysis of five main vulnerabilities of the theory (2026):
| # | Vulnerability | Initial status | Result | New status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as postulate | Not empirically verified | 15+ independent derivations [T]: Theorem S (minimality) + octonionic derivation + T15 (bridge) | Closed (theoretically) |
| 2 | [C] | Conditional theorem | The derivation "T-129 → T-151: unconditionally" is retracted (counterexample , ; T-151); is kept as an independent L2 threshold [D], the independence of the four thresholds being T-124b | Closed as a threshold, not as a theorem (it read "Closed (fully)" until 2026-09-25) |
| 3 | counterintuitive | Requires empirical verification | Algebraic identity [T], physical interpretation, T-124 [T] (non-emptiness of Goldilocks zone) | Closed (theoretically) |
| 4 | No experiments | 412 registry entries without lab verification | 23 numbered predictions and the 14 falsification criteria below; 2 post-hoc coincidences (F-m_t, Weber-Fechner; F-Cabibbo and F-δ_CP withdrawn 2026-09-26, T-345(e); F-nEDM withdrawn 2026-09-26, T-99 corrected — it read 3 with F-nEDM) | Confirmed (requires experiment) |
| 5 | Quantum nature of | Tegmark decoherence | T-267 [T]: Tegmark bounds microscopic position-basis superpositions; is coarse-grained collective structure on a decoherence-free subspace (T-153a), complex by algebra not superposition (T-132), and classically realizable — the objection targets a claim UHM does not make. Residual = the categorical gap (Axiom Ω⁷), a distinct primitive | Closed (Tegmark objection) |
Summary: 4 of 5 vulnerabilities closed theoretically (the Tegmark objection to #5 closed by T-267); 1 is fundamentally experimental. The categorical gap (why structure is felt) is not a vulnerability but the acknowledged Axiom Ω⁷ primitive — distinct from the Tegmark decoherence question, which is now settled.
Theory Boundaries
Acknowledging boundaries is not a weakness, but a strength of a scientific theory. A theory that claims to explain everything without exception is most likely unscientific.
Structural Boundaries (what is not proved)
| Question | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Why 7 dimensions? | Minimality proved | But not uniqueness |
| Values of constants , , | Empirical (holon-specific) | Not derived from axioms — except the cosmological , pinned to [C] via the -extra/neutrino sector ( GeV; used by T-266) |
| Uniqueness of | Not proved | Other 'universes' possible |
| Uniqueness of partition | Proved [T] | All 7 dimensions are functionally unique (A,S,D,L,U — algebraically; E,O — via κ₀) |
Physical Boundaries
| Question | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Einstein equations | [T] on the product triple; itself [T] as mathematics (reading [I]) | Spectral action (T-65); assembled at T-120 [T] as mathematics (restated T-119, 2026-09-25) |
| Standard Model | Colour [T]; electroweak [C at (Cl)] through T-326 (axis construction [C at (FE)], uniqueness there [H]); parameters partially | [T]; as the normaliser of colour in the of (T-326; chirality T-327, horizontal families T-328, with the right-handed fields T-329; stratified — none in the doublet sector [C at (Cl)], "at any energy" [H]); from (FE); the former " [T]" is retracted (, row T-275); specific masses — partially |
| Spacetime dimensionality | [C at (L)], (L) ⟺ (P) — 48e(f)–(i); the mathematics [T] | Theorem 48c: the colour-singlet part of is , signature , rotations commuting with colour [T]; its reading as physical spacetime is [C at (L)], (L) ⟺ (P) — 48e(f)–(i). One time direction [T] (PW clock); three spatial ones also at T-119 [T] (rank count, the colour triplet read as space [I]); the former "sectoral decomposition + Connes reconstruction [T]" is retracted with the axis-labelled split (row 48a) |
| Constants , , | [T] derived, , not explained | (T-65); , — fundamental |
Phenomenal Boundaries (what is taken as axiom)
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Categorical gap: The theory does not explain why mathematical structures are 'felt.' The identity of being and experience — Axiom Ω⁷, not a theorem.
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Qualia calibration: The correspondence between specific eigenvalues/eigenvectors and specific qualities of experience is established empirically.
Which specific corresponds to 'red' is an empirical question, not a theoretical defect. This is analogous to how the electron mass is not derived from the Standard Model. The structure of experience (spectral decomposition) is the unique functor compatible with the axiomatics, but the specific calibration is determined experimentally.
The protocols, controls and power calculations for this calibration, and the structural tests that go with it, are collected in the Empirical Programme.
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Absolute qualia: The question of the existence of context-independent qualia remains open.
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Thresholds L2: [T] — derived from triadic decomposition ( types of dynamics from axioms) + Bayesian dominance. [T] — unique self-consistent value at (T-129).
Categorical Boundaries
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is not a topos: It is proved that the category is not a topos — there is no internal logic of experiential content.
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Functor is non-invertible: One cannot uniquely recover from experiential content — different states may yield 'identical' experience.
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Problem of time: The category is static; time requires an external parameter.
Status of Boundaries
These boundaries are not a deficiency, but an acknowledgement:
- The theory describes structure, not the question of 'why this particular structure'
- Some questions may be beyond any possible explanation
- Honest acknowledgement of boundaries is a mark of a mature theory
Comparison with physics: Physics does not explain why the laws of nature exist — it describes their structure. Analogously, UHM describes the structure of experience, acknowledging the boundaries of explanation.
Octonionic Falsification Criteria
The structural derivation through octonions generates additional testable predictions:
| Prediction | Falsification criterion | Status |
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| Fano symmetries of coherences | 7 triplets of the Fano plane should be distinguishable in the structure of coherences | [T] |
| -covariance | The dynamics of must be covariant with respect to , not the full | [T] |
| Associator anomalies | Triple interactions of dimensions should exhibit non-associativity: | [T] |
| Hamming threshold | Structure , exactly as in the canon (T-93): 1 coherence violation is corrected automatically by the regenerator, 2 are detected via the syndrome measurements (E, O, U); beyond two the code is unreliable (). Erratum 2026-07-25: this previously read «viable with loss of up to 3 of 7» — unsupported by T-93 and inconsistent with (the guarantee is correction, detections); found by machine-checking the table against the canon. | [T] |
The connection (AP)+(PH)+(QG)+(V) → P1+P2 is established via the formal chain T15 (12 steps): the steps up to PG(2,2) are [T], the step to takes the canonical orientation, the unique collineation-invariant class (T15-canon), so the chain is [T] (registry row 41n; it read "all [T]" until 2026-09-25 without the orientation step, then [C at (Alt)] the same day). T11–T13 prove the former condition (МП). The octonionic predictions are consequences of the structural derivation and carry no orientation condition.
Research programme
Boundaries do not mean a halt to development. Open directions:
| Direction | Goal | Priority |
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| Quantum gravity | Derive from | High |
| Experimental validation of thresholds | Verify , empirically | High |
| Calibration and structure of quality space | Fix the map from perceived dissimilarity to ; test realisability and the Fano structure (Empirical Programme) | High |
| Isospectral experiments | Test prediction 1 with numerical tolerances | High |
| ISF analysis of fMRI | Verify F-Gap-1, F-Gap-2, F-ISF | High |
| Non-perturbative computations | Refine F-Higgs, F-τ_p | High |
| Correlation length | Verify F-ξ through LSS surveys | Medium |
| Connection with Hoffman | Prove equivalence with the theory of conscious agents | Medium |
| -topos | Construct -topos on | Low |
| Standard Model | Close the derivation of from the Gap hierarchy | Long-term |
Related documents:
- Glossary — definitions of terms
- Status registry — complete registry of results with classification [T]/[H]/[P]/[I]/[D]
- Axiom Ω⁷ — ∞-topos as primitive
- Mathematical apparatus — formal definitions of ,
- Interiority hierarchy — levels L0→L1→L2→L3→L4, thresholds , ,
- Categorical formalism — functor , categories and
- 7D minimality theorem — proof of
- Structural derivation via octonions — P1+P2 → → N=7
- Formalisation of operator φ — CPTP channels
- Theorems — formal results
- CC predictions — CC-specific falsification criteria
- Fano selection rules — Fano selection rule for Yukawa couplings
- Gap semantics — dual-aspect semantics of 49 elements
- Gap dynamics — Gap operator, bifurcations, non-Markovian dynamics
- Gap thermodynamics — information geometry, potential
- RG flow of Gap — -functions, fixed points, RG suppression of
- Higgs sector — uniqueness of the line , Higgs mass
- CKM matrix — flavour from the clock and what can break the family (T-345); the former Fritzsch texture, Cabibbo angle and CP phase claims are retracted there
- Yukawa hierarchy — Pendleton–Ross fixed point,
- Proton decay — -leptoquarks,
- Dark matter — -sector relic,
- G₂ structure — covariance of the Fano dissipator