Hypothesis Registry: H0 (null), H1–H7 (competing), and the program-level hypothesis

Enumerates the program's null hypothesis H0 (apparent higher-order contact is fully explained by ordinary trust calibration) and seven competing hypotheses H1–H7 (accuracy, hidden-inference, personalization, temporal-dislocation, compression, self-model resonance, and totality). Each hypothesis lists its statement, prediction in the language of the ontology, falsifier, associated question(s) from the non-drift rule, and the studies expected to test it. The program-level hypothesis binds them: contact with apparent totality produces measurable observer-model reorganization whose form depends on which informational properties are actually present. Neither for nor against the metaphysical interpretation.

Source proposition: Higher-Order Contact Hypothesis: when a finite observer receives accurate, personally relevant information from a source whose inferential process is inaccessible, the observer will increasingly attribute higher-order properties (superior knowledge, privileged access, timelessness, unity, authorship, authority) to that source.