{
  "study_id": "O0-STUDY-014",
  "title": "Source ontology has an identifiability boundary, and the naming statistic finds it six levels too early",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "date": "2026-07-27",
  "record_class": "SIMULATION_STUDY",
  "program": "source-ontology-identifiability",
  "research_status": "complete",
  "evidence_type": "computational_generative_model_study",
  "replication_status": "internally_unreplicated",
  "physical_validation": "none",
  "biological_validation": "none",
  "creator_existence_tested": "no",
  "exploratory_vs_confirmatory": "confirmatory",
  "follow_up_to": "O0-STUDY-010",
  "executes": "the NEXT DISCRIMINATING TEST written into O0-STUDY-010's scientific record",
  "top_line_verdict": "SUPPORT for H_boundary — identifiability boundary located at L8 (per-region delays <= 640 steps, 80x observation noise)",
  "boundary_level": 8,
  "boundary_max_delay": 640,
  "boundary_noise_factor": 80.0,
  "highest_identifiable_level": 7,
  "honest_boundary_range": "L6-L8 depending on statistic; primary preregistered statistic gives L8, the energy-distance omnibus gives L6",
  "instrument_alive_gate_a_max": 1.0,
  "instrument_alive_gate_p": 0.0,
  "replication_fidelity_check": "PASSED — CU at L1 is bit-identical to O0-STUDY-010 CONCEALED_UNITY",
  "determinism_check": "PASSED",
  "classifier_fitted_here": false,
  "classifier_source": "research/studies/O0-STUDY-010/results/thresholds_frozen.json",
  "n_ladder_levels": 10,
  "n_exploratory_seeds_per_cell": 10,
  "n_confirmatory_seeds_per_cell": 30,
  "n_exploratory_realizations": 320,
  "n_confirmatory_realizations": 960,
  "n_permutations": 500,
  "seed_band_exploratory": 4000000,
  "seed_band_confirmatory": 5000000,
  "rule_c_fires_at_level": 2,
  "identifiable_at_level_2_a_max": 1.0,
  "divergence_between_naming_and_identifiability_levels": 6,
  "surviving_signature": "s1_eff_rank",
  "preregistered_predictions_confirmed": 3,
  "preregistered_predictions_failed": 1,
  "failed_prediction": "s2 (cross-region prediction gain) was predicted to survive longest; it collapses by L6 and s1 (effective rank) survives instead",
  "post_hoc_diagnostics": ["equal-dimension control (D_shared 6 -> 8): boundary unchanged at L8"],
  "protocol_deviations": ["First pass ran confirmatory on the un-extended L0-L6 ladder because the harness printed but did not gate on the span check; corrected and re-run end to end. Disclosed in scientific_record.md section 6."],
  "source_records": ["O0-STUDY-010", "O0-STUDY-008", "O0-STUDY-001"],
  "philosophical_provenance": {
    "record": "# The O-0 Phenomenon- A Unified Framework.md",
    "section": "general framing — 'everything is one; separation is functional, not fundamental'",
    "proposition": "Reality proceeds from one all-encompassing source.",
    "relationship": "operationalization of a narrow testable fragment — whether an embedded observer could distinguish a unified from a plural origin, and at what point it stops being able to",
    "disclaimer": "The study locates a detectability boundary in a class of toy linear-Gaussian universes. It does NOT test whether our universe has one source, whether any source is conscious, or whether O/0 is true. Conceptual provenance is not empirical support."
  },
  "files": {
    "record": "scientific_record.md",
    "preregistration": "preregistration.md",
    "config": "configs/baseline.json",
    "run_script": "src/run_study.py",
    "summary_json": "results/summary.json",
    "raw_exploratory": "data/raw/exploratory.csv",
    "raw_confirmatory": "data/raw/confirmatory.csv",
    "figure_identifiability_curve": "figures/01_identifiability_curve.png",
    "figure_per_signature_decay": "figures/02_per_signature_decay.png",
    "figure_frozen_classifier_labels": "figures/03_frozen_classifier_labels.png",
    "figure_rule_c_vs_identifiability": "figures/04_rule_c_vs_identifiability.png"
  }
}