Method — Emergentism

The doctrine of method: how the framework tests itself, defends its claims, and ladders from axiom to application. Twelve documents on constitutional science, the doctrinal ladder, preregistrations, and the Anumana audit protocol.

Game-spine role: methodology is the Soul Loop's "know how to move" function. It receives tiered disclosure from epistemology, then derives, tests, builds, corrects, and recurses until a proposed move can represent Φ and V at the action boundary and preserve η = 0. [S/I]

Evidence tiers: [A] Established mathematics · [S] Structural · [I] Interpretive · [B] Empirical receipt · [C] Conjecture

Axioms and Architecture

• Why These Axioms · [S] — The justification for the framework's foundational choices.
• The Doctrinal Ladder · [S] — How claims ascend from [C] conjecture to [A] proof.

Testing and Claims

• What Actually Tests the Theory · [S/B] — The empirical and formal bars the framework must clear.
• Canonical Claim Matrix · [S] — Organized inventory of every framework claim with its tier and falsifier.
• Constitutional Science · [I/S] — How the framework builds scientific claims that can survive their own success.

Research Engine

• D5 as the Research Engine · [I/S] — Why the fifth dimension is the productive center of inquiry.
• The Derivation · [A/S] — The master derivation that unifies the framework's formal results.

Audit and Protocol

• The Anumana Audit Protocol · [S] — The framework's internal validity check adapted from Indian epistemology.
• Syntropic Known Unknowns Protocol · [S] — How the framework maps its own limits without overstating them.

Preregistrations

• Equatorial Balance Maximum Preregistration · [B] — Pre-registered protocol for testing the equatorial-balance hypothesis.
• Equatorial Balance Maximum Results Pilot · [B] — Pilot results and lessons.
• Macro-Constraint Causal-Emergence Preregistration · [S/C] — Frozen-test harness for macro-constraint causation, causal emergence, and false-positive controls.
• Physics-to-Biology Macro-Constraint Run Sheet · [C/S] — First chemistry-to-biology domain-run template for information-topology causation; toy receipt is [B] only for the harness.

Rendered from canonical sources under 01_EMERGENTISM/03_METHODOLOGY/ — evidence tier preserved, internal scaffolding stripped.