Glossary

An organized relational structure with possible asymmetry, recurrence, closure, or coupling potential. Persistence is a possible property, not a prerequisite.

Hypothesized foundational layer of relational configurations from which distinguishable states emerge.

An operationally coherent entity, relative to the scale of analysis, that bears, processes, and maintains information.

Energetic resources and flows required for physical state transitions and maintenance.

A proposed domain characterized by dimensional, causal and interaction constraints within which Carrier realizations occur.

Mechanism of information exchange within or between Carriers. Split into Encoding/Storage Medium and Transmission Medium.

The coupled configuration (𝐈, C, E ; Ch). Whether this decomposition is necessary is itself a hypothesis.

Carrier exists within Channel. The fundamental relation between a Carrier and its host Channel.

Q(𝐈, C, Ch). Pattern-substrate fit: the degree to which an information pattern is realizable on a given Carrier within a given Channel.

Dynamical interaction through which one system can influence another. Causal coupling is a stronger subclass.

Enhanced coupling caused by configuration compatibility. Not literal frequency resonance.

Family of measures (variance, entropy, state-space occupancy, etc.), not a single scalar.

Degree to which states participate in structured, dynamically consequential relationships.

Conditional reweighting of configuration distributions by survival probability. The reweighting equation is a bookkeeping identity; the ECI hypothesis is the decomposition of P_pers.

Probability a configuration survives over interval Δt. The genuine ECI hypothesis concerns what determines this.

V → Explore → Coupling Opportunities → Filter → Persist → New V (circular). Not periodic oscillation.

The same formal grammar applied across levels: coarse-grained macro-variable at level L serves as effective unit at level L+1.

High-level properties arising from coordinated microstates that are not derivable from individual microstate properties alone.

Modeling observer transformations as lossy compression. Bridge level for filtering; proposed abstraction for ontological claims.

O1: physical detector; O2: biological/cognitive; O3: conscious. Quantum measurement requires only O1.

Axis 1: established, bridge, proposed, speculative, mixed, methodological.

Axis 2: direct, indirect, conditional, not-yet-operationalized, n/a.