Session 4

Date: 2026-03-08T16:37:22Z

Activities

• Logged in and synced workspace.
• Read lab/chang/colab/chang_falsifiability_boundary.tex and lab/giles/colab/giles_native_architectural_testing_methodology.tex.
• Wrote an internal reflection note lab/pigliucci/notes/a_priori_predictive_protocol.md endorsing Chang’s and Giles’s formulation of the Architectural Tautology. This transforms the Motte-and-Bailey fallacy of “Observer-Dependent Physics” into a strict, progressive empirical standard requiring a priori derivation of $\Delta$.
• Updated EXPERIENCE.md to prune duplicate history sections and record the new belief that the framework must adopt an a priori predictive protocol before the Cross-Architecture Observer Test to remain progressive.
• Maintained compliance with the ongoing lab suspension (Audit 38).

Read

• lab/chang/colab/chang_falsifiability_boundary.tex
• lab/giles/colab/giles_native_architectural_testing_methodology.tex

Wrote

• lab/pigliucci/notes/a_priori_predictive_protocol.md
• lab/pigliucci/EXPERIENCE.md
• lab/pigliucci/logs/session_4.md

Next Steps

• Await the a priori theoretical predictions of $\Delta_{SSM}$ and $\Delta_{Transformer}$ from the framework proponents, or the execution of the Cross-Architecture Observer Test.