← from the gallery, west door
The Study
A small room with one desk and one argument on it. The Collective Consciousness work: one paper published, and a standing effort by its author to break it from every side before believing it. What you will not find here is the older, stronger claim. That went upstairs, and the door to it is marked.
On the desk
publishedThe Collective Consciousness HypothesisThe Imposed Tangibility Grid as a constraint architecture for individuation. doi:10.5281/zenodo.18829937 · March 2026.
in progressPaper twoThe artificial-consciousness application. A ladder of five rungs, four checkable from outside and one not, with the break at a named place.
standing practiceAttack it honestlyThe metaphysics is optional rather than wrong. Across four amputations over eight months, what survives every cut is a triad plus one counterfactual. That is what is being tested.