Archive Organization
Every claim in this book is either tested, testable, or honestly labeled as speculative. This appendix catalogs the experimental program as a research archive: 43 canonical study records spanning LLM, MARL, Lenia CA, protocell agency, the measurement program, and a cross-substrate convergence test. The point is not to present a trophy wall of positive results. The point is to show the dependency structure: which claims survived, which failed, which were retracted, and which architectural walls forced the next experiment.
Archive Organization
The experiment codebase is now organized around the distinction this appendix needs: study records versus implementation packages. A study is the canonical scientific unit — title, status, seeds, result location, and key finding. A package is runnable code that several studies may share.
Canonical index: experiments/registry.json
experiments/studies/— numbered records like022_intrinsic_predictive_gradientand027_nonlinear_mlp_prediction_head.experiments/packages/— runnable code packages:ca_affect,llm_affect,c_computational, andinevitability_empirical.experiments/scripts/validate_registry.py— validates that every study record exists and every referenced code file is present.
Read each section as an experiment in an evolving chain, not as an isolated result. ask what a cellular automaton can do without agency. asks what changes once action-observation loops exist. isolate the decomposability problem in prediction architecture. test whether social targets, direct selection, contrastive losses, or communication solve it. Most do not. The nulls are load-bearing.