{
  "study_id": "O0-STUDY-001",
  "title": "Dissociating Synchronization from Information Integration",
  "version": "1.1.2",
  "date": "2026-07-26",
  "authors": ["O/0 Research Workspace", "Autonomous investigator (Cursor Opus 4.7)"],
  "record_class": "SIMULATION_STUDY",
  "program": "information-integration",
  "research_status": "completed",
  "evidence_type": "computational_simulation",
  "replication_status": "internally_unreplicated",
  "physical_validation": "none",
  "biological_validation": "none",
  "exploratory_vs_confirmatory": "confirmatory",
  "primary_metric": "raw pairwise mutual information (Miller-Madow, 12 bins) with circular-shuffle null",
  "secondary_metric": "conditional MI given Kuramoto mean-field phase (8x8x6 bins) with circular-shuffle null",
  "primary_metric_verdict": "UNSUPPORTED",
  "secondary_metric_verdict": "INCONCLUSIVE",
  "secondary_metric_verdict_history": [
    {"version": "1.1.1", "verdict": "PRELIMINARY SUPPORT",
     "note": "At preregistered bins_z=6 with absolute threshold ⟨cond_mi_excess_C⟩ > 0.10 nats."},
    {"version": "1.1.2", "verdict": "INCONCLUSIVE",
     "note": "Downgraded after bin-count robustness sweep. Direction is stable across bins_z ∈ {4,6,8,10} (Cohen's d ∈ [2.4, 4.1]) but the absolute magnitude falls below the preregistered threshold at bins_z ≥ 8."}
  ],
  "top_line_verdict": "UNSUPPORTED",
  "n_confirmatory_runs": 120,
  "n_sensitivity_runs": 160,
  "n_noise_robustness_runs": 160,
  "n_total_runs": 440,
  "wall_time_seconds": 115.7,
  "conditions": [
    {"id": "A_common_drive", "label": "A · Common drive",
     "description": "N=32 Kuramoto oscillators, no direct coupling, shared external periodic drive"},
    {"id": "B_sparse_coupled", "label": "B · Sparse coupling",
     "description": "N=32 Kuramoto oscillators, ER(p=0.12) coupling + spanning cycle, no drive"},
    {"id": "C_dense_coupled", "label": "C · Dense coupling",
     "description": "N=32 Kuramoto oscillators, all-to-all coupling, no drive"},
    {"id": "D_independent", "label": "D · Independent",
     "description": "N=32 Kuramoto oscillators, no coupling, no drive (null control)"}
  ],
  "parameters": {
    "N": 32, "T": 4000, "dt": 0.05, "K_baseline": 2.0, "sigma_baseline": 0.15,
    "omega_mean": 1.0, "omega_std": 0.15,
    "drive_amplitude": 1.2, "drive_freq": 1.0,
    "er_p": 0.12, "burn_in": 800
  },
  "sensitivity_scan": {"K_values": [0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0], "seeds_per_cell": 10},
  "noise_scan": {"sigma_values": [0.05, 0.15, 0.30, 0.50], "seeds_per_cell": 10},
  "seed_bands": {
    "confirmatory": [300000, 300029],
    "sensitivity_K": [310000, 310009],
    "noise_robustness": [320000, 320009]
  },
  "source_records": ["OA-C005"],
  "related_records": ["O0-HYP-001", "O0-INF-002", "O0-BND-006"],
  "philosophical_provenance": {
    "record": "OA-C005",
    "proposition": "Separation may be functional and emergent rather than fundamental.",
    "relationship": "inspiration_only",
    "disclaimer": "Conceptual provenance is not empirical support."
  },
  "files": {
    "readme": "README.md",
    "record": "scientific_record.md",
    "claim_audit": "claim_audit.md",
    "literature": "literature_review.md",
    "research_question": "research_question.md",
    "hypothesis": "hypothesis.md",
    "protocol": "protocol.md",
    "preregistration": "preregistration.md",
    "formal_model": "formal_model.md",
    "assumptions": "assumptions.md",
    "controls": "controls.md",
    "falsification_criteria": "falsification_criteria.md",
    "limitations": "limitations.md",
    "alternative_explanations": "alternative_explanations.md",
    "replication": "replication.md",
    "revision_history": "revision_history.md",
    "summary_json": "results/summary.json",
    "statistics_csv": "results/statistics.csv",
    "model_comparison_csv": "results/model_comparison.csv",
    "interpretation_matrix": "results/interpretation_matrix.md",
    "checksums": "results/checksums.json",
    "run_manifest": "runs/run_manifest.csv",
    "raw_confirmatory": "data/raw/confirmatory.csv",
    "raw_sensitivity_K": "data/raw/sensitivity_K.csv",
    "raw_noise_robustness": "data/raw/noise_robustness.csv",
    "schema": "data/processed/schema.json"
  },
  "figures": [
    {"file": "figures/01_scatter_sync_vs_mi.png",
     "caption": "Per-run scatter: Kuramoto r vs. raw pairwise MI. Conditions A, B, C overlap at high r and high MI — primary dissociation fails."},
    {"file": "figures/01b_scatter_sync_vs_cond_mi.png",
     "caption": "Per-run scatter: r vs. conditional MI given Ψ."},
    {"file": "figures/02_condition_bars.png",
     "caption": "Bar chart of ⟨r⟩ and raw ⟨MI⟩ per condition with 95% CIs."},
    {"file": "figures/02b_cond_mi_excess_bars.png",
     "caption": "Bar chart of ⟨cond_mi_excess⟩ per condition with 95% CIs — the SECONDARY dissociation is visible at bins_z=6 (A ≈ D ≈ 0; B and C elevated). See figure 06 for bin-count sensitivity."},
    {"file": "figures/03_mi_observed_vs_null.png",
     "caption": "Observed raw MI vs. circular-shuffle null per condition."},
    {"file": "figures/04_sensitivity_K.png",
     "caption": "Sensitivity of ⟨r⟩ and ⟨MI⟩ to coupling strength K."},
    {"file": "figures/05_noise_robustness.png",
     "caption": "Robustness of ⟨r⟩ and ⟨MI⟩ to noise σ."},
    {"file": "figures/06_bins_z_robustness.png",
     "caption": "Bin-count robustness of ⟨cond_mi_excess⟩: direction of C > A dissociation is preserved across bins_z ∈ {4,6,8,10}, but absolute magnitude only clears the preregistered 0.10-nat threshold at bins_z ∈ {4,6}. Basis for the secondary-metric verdict downgrade to INCONCLUSIVE."}
  ]
}