Empirical Program

Experiments Distributed Throughout the Book

Experiments Distributed Throughout the Book

Research Roadmapfive priorities for the empirical program1Universal GeometryConfirm affect structure in uncontaminated systemsV10, V13-V18, VLM2Integration DynamicsWhat architectural features produce Φ increase under stress?V20-V27, V31-V343Individual PlasticityWithin-lifetime adaptation bridging the attention bottleneckV35, V364Social-Scale ΦMeasure collective integration in multi-agent systemsplanned5Developmental OrderingTest emergence ladder predictions in human developmentproposedcompleteactiveplanned

In addition to the consolidated results above and the research roadmap, fourteen proposed experiments are distributed throughout Parts I–IV, each embedded in the theoretical context that motivates it:

  • Part I (4 experiments): The minimal affect experiment, the attention-as-measurement test, the ι\iota modulation test, and the computational animism test (now confirmed — see Experiment 8).
  • Part II (4 experiments): The emergence ladder developmental validation (ordering of affect capacity onset from birth to age 6), the ι\iota rigidity transdiagnostic predictor, the identity thesis operationalization, and the broad/narrow qualia operationalization.
  • Part III (3 experiments): Tests of art as ι\iota technology, genre affect signatures, and philosophical affect policies.
  • Part IV (4 experiments): The contamination detection study, the ordering principle test, the temporal asymmetry test, and the digital manifold confusion study.