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  "study_id": "O0-STUDY-002",
  "title": "Functional Partitioning vs. Monolithic Prediction under Local-Signal Constraints",
  "version": "1.0.0-pilot",
  "date": "2026-07-26",
  "authors": ["O/0 Research Workspace", "Autonomous investigator (Cursor Opus 4.7)"],
  "record_class": "SIMULATION_STUDY",
  "program": "emergent-boundaries + multiscale-agency",
  "research_status": "pilot_complete",
  "evidence_type": "computational_simulation",
  "replication_status": "internally_unreplicated",
  "physical_validation": "none",
  "biological_validation": "none",
  "exploratory_vs_confirmatory": "pilot",
  "n_seeds": 5,
  "n_confirmatory_fits": 1125,
  "n_noise_robustness_fits": 1125,
  "wall_time_seconds": 733.6,
  "primary_metric": "held-out test MSE",
  "primary_metric_verdict": "UNSUPPORTED",
  "top_line_verdict": "UNSUPPORTED",
  "verdict_rationale": "Both preregistered adversarial controls won: CE1 (statistical efficiency) dominated at n_train=20000 with d=-17.8 in favor of monolithic; CE2 (convolutional inductive bias) dominated at all n_train values with d=-10.4 in favor of shared-weight conv over locally-partitioned OLS.",
  "source_records": ["OA-C001", "OA-C005"],
  "philosophical_provenance": {
    "record": "# The O-0 Phenomenon- A Unified Framework.md",
    "section": "VII",
    "proposition": "Functional separation serves evolutionary/practical purposes (local processing, evolution).",
    "relationship": "operationalization",
    "disclaimer": "Testing the pragmatic-utility half of a philosophical claim. Refutation of the pragmatic version does not refute the metaphysical version."
  },
  "files": {
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    "claim_audit": "claim_audit.md",
    "hypothesis": "hypothesis.md",
    "preregistration": "preregistration.md",
    "formal_model": "formal_model.md",
    "assumptions": "assumptions.md",
    "literature": "literature_review.md",
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