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name: psychsocio-metafauna
name: psfr

on:
pull_request:
paths:
- "research/psychsocio-metafauna/**"
- "research/psfr/**"
- "research/metapat/BASE.json"
- "README.md"
- ".github/workflows/psychsocio-metafauna.yml"
- ".github/workflows/psfr.yml"
push:
branches: [main]
paths:
- "research/psychsocio-metafauna/**"
- "research/psfr/**"
- "research/metapat/BASE.json"
- "README.md"
- ".github/workflows/psychsocio-metafauna.yml"
- ".github/workflows/psfr.yml"

permissions:
contents: read
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- uses: actions/setup-python@v6
with:
python-version: "3.12"
- name: Validate psychsocio-metafauna boundaries
run: python -m unittest discover -s research/psychsocio-metafauna/tests -q
- name: Validate PSFR boundaries
run: python -m unittest discover -s research/psfr/tests -q
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- `research/urpcs/` is a distinct stack-local authenticated recursive pairing codec
experiment. Its codec-local `Gonol` row is not a UCNS gonol; it imports no PCEA
construction and has no confidentiality, production-security, or release standing.
- `research/psfr/` is Psychosocial Fauna Research (PSFR), a stack-local pre-graduation
research area. It preserves two non-collapsed tracks: host-transcendent pattern-lineage
ecology and agency-displacement phenomenology. Preserve first-person/witness event
distinctions before causal compression; do not infer external-agent ontology from
automatic action, lost time, or a physiological correlate alone.
- `research/zfae/` owns Stack-local inference-construction experiments. ZFAE
retains conceptual authority, PTCNA owns neural construction, and a0 owns
runtime integration. Keep a0-betatest comparisons separately attributed.
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│ ├── zfae/ # inference construction research and gonol input parser
│ ├── epac/ # historical forge evidence; active implementation is independent
│ ├── epac-derived-carrier/ # active Stack audit consuming exact EPAC source
│ ├── psychsocio-metafauna/ # proposed pattern-lineage, coalescence, accountability research
│ ├── psfr/ # Psychosocial Fauna Research: lineages, agency displacement, coalescence

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P1 Badge Register PSFR in both stack provenance manifests

This rename exposes research/psfr/ as a distinct stack-local participant, but neither stack-manifest.json nor STACK_MANIFEST.md contains a PSFR research-participant record. Consequently the authoritative participant graph and its digest omit the newly declared workspace even though the consistency checker passes because it only validates entries already present; add matching machine/human records and recompute the root work-graph digest.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L43-L43

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│ └── from-photons-to-macroverse/ # audited consciousness-first candidate research
├── integration/epac/ # immutable EPAC release lock and consumer verification
├── ahbg/ # emerging composed benchmark/game workspace
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URPCS is stack-local and ungraduated; its verified reference vectors and
independent replay establish bounded deterministic codec behavior, not
encryption security.
Psychsocio metafauna and From Photons to the Macroverse remain stack-local
PSFR and From Photons to the Macroverse remain stack-local
pre-graduation research. EPAC has an independently published MPL-2.0 `v0.1.0`
release and has passed public Stack reconsumption. Its Python forge copy is retired;
`research/epac/` preserves historical evidence. EPAC is graduated: implementation and public-contract authority belong to the
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{
"schema": "the-interdependency.domain-claim",
"version": "0.1.0",
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage",
"surface_form": "psychsocio metafauna",
"claiming_domain": "psychsocio-metafauna",
"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.",
"scope": "Social-cognitive, cultural, institutional, and agent-mediated symbolic systems; including beneficial, neutral, harmful, and mixed host-pattern relations.",
"version": "0.2.0",

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P2 Badge Keep the human-facing PSFR version in sync

This change advances both the domain claim and work graph to 0.2.0, but the PSFR README still advertises the workspace as version 0.1.0. Downstream users following the README cannot tell which machine-readable contract they are consuming, so update the human-facing version or explicitly document that it follows an independent version stream.

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"term_id": "psfr.psychosocial-fauna",

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P1 Badge Declare how the new term identity replaces the old claim

The rename changes the top-level identity from psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage to psfr.psychosocial-fauna, while retaining the former ID as a nested defined term, but records no supersedes or containment relationship. Consumers therefore cannot determine whether the old claim was replaced, remains independently active, or is now a child of the PSFR umbrella; preserve that identity transition explicitly rather than silently changing the authoritative key.

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"surface_form": "psychosocial fauna",
"claiming_domain": "psfr",
"claimed_sense": "A stack-local research genus for host-transcendent psychosocial pattern lineages and reported agency-displacement phenomena. It preserves lineage persistence, host coupling, and event-level distinctions without assuming that one mechanism or ontology explains every class.",
"scope": "Social-cognitive, cultural, institutional, agent-mediated, and first-person/witness agency phenomena; including beneficial, neutral, harmful, and mixed relations or outcomes.",
"claim_type": "provisional cross-domain hypothesis",
"claim_status": "stack-local research; not canon; not diagnosis; not a human classifier",
"authority_source": {
"kind": "operator-authored proposal",
"author": "Erin Spencer",
"date": "2026-09-04",
"repository_record": "research/psychsocio-metafauna/",
"repository_record": "research/psfr/",
"immutable_transcript_identity": "hmmm"
},
"included_uses": [
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"testing whether specific damage topologies preferentially increase susceptibility to compatible pattern affordances",
"testing nonlinear coalescence, persistence, hysteresis, reproduction, and repair",
"allocating causal contribution and possible accountability among hosts, designers, amplifiers, institutions, and candidate distributed agents",
"self-auditing The Interdependent Way and its implementations under the same criteria"
"self-auditing The Interdependent Way and its implementations under the same criteria",
"preserving first-person and witness distinctions among automatic perseverative action, externally attributed control displacement, lost time, and ordinary voluntary action",
"testing time-locked physiological and behavioral correlates of declared agency-event classes without treating a correlate as automatic causal identification",
"recording asymmetric source access: strong access to experienced effects with limited or absent access to an attributed source's thoughts or emotions",
"distinguishing beneficial, harmful, neutral, and mixed agency-displacement outcomes"
],
"excluded_uses": [
"diagnosing a person, community, religion, ideology, or political group as infected",
"inferring trauma, incapacity, hidden state, intention, or diminished accountability from belief or disagreement",
"treating persuasion, adoption, conviction, reproduction, or social similarity alone as identity capture",
"using UCNS geometry, EDCM readouts, model agreement, or implementation persistence as automatic proof of the theory",
"targeting people by vulnerability, optimizing coercive influence, forced deconversion, or suppressing lawful belief",
"claiming that a lineage possesses an accountable I merely because it has recognizable identity"
"claiming that a lineage possesses an accountable I merely because it has recognizable identity",
"inferring an external agent solely from automatic repetitive action, lost time, diagnosis, or a physiological correlate",
"collapsing externally attributed control displacement into automatic perseverative action merely because outward behavior overlaps",
"treating absence of externally verifiable source identity as evidence that the reported phenomenological distinction did not occur"
],
"defined_terms": [
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-instance",
"term_id": "psfr.pattern-instance",
"sense": "One embodied registration of a lineage in speech, text, ritual, image, software, institution, model state, memory, or behavior."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage",
"term_id": "psfr.pattern-lineage",
"sense": "The recoverable invariants joining related instances across transmission, mutation, embodiment, and time."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.host-pattern-coupling",
"term_id": "psfr.host-pattern-coupling",
"sense": "A relation in which a reconstructed pattern participates in a host's identity maintenance, interpretation, or policy selection."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.identity-capture",
"term_id": "psfr.identity-capture",
"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."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.coalescence-site",
"term_id": "psfr.coalescence-site",
"sense": "A compatibility relation between a host's current susceptibility topology and a lineage's affordance profile."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.coalescence-event",
"term_id": "psfr.coalescence-event",
"sense": "A proposed threshold crossing at which several compatible host-pattern couplings become mutually reinforcing."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.capture-basin",
"term_id": "psfr.capture-basin",
"sense": "A self-maintaining host-pattern configuration that persists after the initiating exposure or condition is reduced."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.accountable-i",
"term_id": "psfr.accountable-i",
"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."
},
{
"term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.repair",
"term_id": "psfr.repair",
"sense": "Restoration or enlargement of inspectability, plurality, refusal, revision, safe exit, and accountable action; not compulsory abandonment of a belief."
},
{
"term_id": "psfr.automatic-perseverative-action",
"sense": "A repetitive action that begins and continues until conscious opposition becomes salient and interruption requires deliberate effort; external agency is not implied by the class."
},
{
"term_id": "psfr.externally-attributed-control-displacement",
"sense": "An event in which control or inhibition is experienced as originating from a clearly not-self, external source, with the source's internal state only partially or not directly accessible."
},
{
"term_id": "psfr.lost-time",
"sense": "A discontinuity in later-accessible autobiographical memory or continuous awareness; it may overlap another event class but is not equivalent to agency displacement."
},
{
"term_id": "psfr.source-access-asymmetry",
"sense": "A relation in which effects on the host are directly experienced while access to an attributed source's thoughts is absent and emotional access is limited or partial."
},
{
"term_id": "psfr.possession-state",
"sense": "Witness/experiencer-derived phenomenological label for a state involving substantial displacement of ordinary agency, authorship, or executive control. The label preserves the report and does not by itself settle causal mechanism or ontology."
}
],
"nearby_terms": [
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{
"term": "collective or distributed agent",
"distinction": "A possible higher-order status requiring additional evidence of boundary, memory, integrated policy, counterfactual revision, and causal persistence."
},
{
"term": "psychsocio metafauna",
"distinction": "Historical predecessor name for this Stack research line. PSFR is the current research-area identity."
}
],
"known_namespace_collisions": [
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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."
}
],
"effective_version": "0.1.0",
"effective_version": "0.2.0",
"hmmm": [
"Canonical spelling, pluralization, and whether the directory name becomes an independent project name.",
"Operational invariants sufficient to identify one lineage across substantial mutation.",
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"The existence, location, and hysteresis of coalescence thresholds.",
"Criteria for accountable distributed I status.",
"Ethically admissible empirical methods beyond synthetic and archival work.",
"Exact current canonical source identity for The Interdependent Way self-audit."
"Exact current canonical source identity for The Interdependent Way self-audit.",
"Whether agency-displacement event classes exhibit reproducible physiological state transitions and which measurements are sensitive enough to detect them.",
"Whether externally attributed control displacement and automatic perseverative action form separable empirical clusters.",
"Whether any host-transcendent lineage or distributed entity satisfies stronger criteria for integrated agency, intention, or accountable selfhood."
]
}
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# Preregistration: synthetic coalescence falsifier v0.1

> **PSFR scope boundary:** this frozen program tests the pattern-lineage/coalescence
> track only. It does not test possession-state reports, externally attributed control
> displacement, automatic perseverative action, lost time, EEG correlates, or the
> existence/identity of an external agent. Those require separate preregistrations.

```text
status: design frozen by repository merge only
run status: not-run
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canon selection: null
```

This is the first bounded test of the internal usefulness of the psychsocio-metafauna framework. It does **not** test whether any real person, group, institution, or belief is captured. It tests whether the proposed distinctions can produce separable, falsifiable behavior in a synthetic environment without encoding a `captured` label into the agent.
This is the first bounded test of the internal usefulness of the PSFR pattern-lineage framework. It does **not** test whether any real person, group, institution, or belief is captured. It tests whether the proposed distinctions can produce separable, falsifiable behavior in a synthetic environment without encoding a `captured` label into the agent.

## Decision

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# Psychsocio metafauna
# Psychosocial Fauna Research (PSFR)

Psychsocio metafauna is a stack-local research program for transmissible thought-pattern lineages, their coupling to identity-bearing systems, damage-specific susceptibility, coalescence, capture, reproduction, accountability, and repair.
PSFR is a stack-local research program for transmissible thought-pattern lineages, their coupling to identity-bearing systems, damage-specific susceptibility, coalescence, capture, reproduction, accountability, and repair.

```text
standing: proposed cross-domain theory
version: 0.1.0
owner: research/psychsocio-metafauna/
version: 0.2.0
owner: research/psfr/
canon: no
clinical or diagnostic use: no
human classification: no
METAPAT root impact: none
```

The machine-readable claim is [`DOMAIN_CLAIM.json`](DOMAIN_CLAIM.json). Exact source identities and non-transfer boundaries are in [`WORK_GRAPH.json`](WORK_GRAPH.json). The first bounded falsification program is in [`PREREGISTRATION.md`](PREREGISTRATION.md).
The machine-readable domain claims are in [`DOMAIN_CLAIM.json`](DOMAIN_CLAIM.json). Exact source identities and non-transfer boundaries are in [`WORK_GRAPH.json`](WORK_GRAPH.json). The first bounded pattern-lineage falsification program is in [`PREREGISTRATION.md`](PREREGISTRATION.md). Agency-displacement research is a separate track and must not be inferred from that simulator.

## Origin

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Complete immunity would require closure against learning, trust, language, attachment, imitation, and correction. The design target is therefore not immunity. It is **selective permeability with repair**.


## Agency-displacement phenomenology

PSFR also preserves a second research track: reports in which ordinary authorship,
executive control, memory continuity, or source attribution diverge. This track is not
collapsed into the pattern-lineage/coalescence model above and does not presume that one
mechanism explains every event.

The current operator distinctions are:

```text
ordinary voluntary action
!= automatic perseverative action
!= externally attributed control displacement
!= lost-time / memory-discontinuity episode
```

### Automatic perseverative action

A repetitive action begins and continues until conscious opposition becomes salient and
stopping requires deliberate effort. The defining observation is continuation despite
later attempted interruption. This class does not, by itself, imply an external agent.

### Externally attributed control displacement

The experiencer reports a control source as clearly not-self and external to ordinary
self-agency. Access is asymmetric: effects on action, inhibition, or executive control
may be directly experienced while the putative source's thoughts remain inaccessible
and only limited emotional information may be available.

PSFR records that report without replacing it with either an external-agent conclusion
or a diagnostic explanation before measurement.

### Lost time

An interval in which later-accessible autobiographical memory or continuous awareness is
absent or discontinuous. Lost time may overlap another PSFR event class but is not
equivalent to agency displacement.

### Beneficial and harmful displacement

Outcome valence is independent of event class. Candidate examples include an unwanted
action, a prevented action, a pause that averts harm, or an intended movement that fails
to occur. A research taxonomy that admits only harmful cases is selection-biased.

### Minimum event record

A PSFR agency-event record should preserve, without causal compression:

```text
intended action
observed action or inhibition
experienced authorship
experienced locus/source of control
degree of voluntary interruption available
memory continuity
thought-access to attributed source
emotion-access to attributed source
beneficial / harmful / mixed outcome
witness observations
time-locked physiological measurements when available
post-event narrative and its later changes
```

The central methodological rule is:

> Preserve the experienced distinctions first; adjudicate mechanism and ontology second.

A scalp EEG, intracranial recording, autonomic measure, movement trace, witness report,
or later narrative is evidence about a bounded aspect of an event. None receives
automatic authority over all the others.

### Candidate measurement questions

PSFR may test whether event classes differ in reproducible timing or signatures across:

- EEG spectral, phase, connectivity, or state-transition measures;
- motor initiation and inhibition;
- EMG and movement artifact controls;
- autonomic state;
- memory continuity;
- immediate versus delayed phenomenological report;
- witness-observed behavior;
- beneficial versus harmful outcome.

A physiological correlate would establish a correlate at the measured resolution, not
by itself the identity or ontology of a causal agent.


## Synthesis map

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