Foundations technical report · v0.3, 5 November 2026 · Website reading copy released 12 November 2026

Causal Self-Diagnosis with Noisy Tests: Observation Laws, Irreversible Access, and Task Recovery

Research development draft prepared for Brian Theory
AI-assisted derivation, computation, and independent internal review

Exact 38-page PDF and v0.3 source. The original submission authorship remains undecided. Reviews are internal simulated/AI assessments, not external human peer review. A targeted internal AI final-source review completed on 12 November 2026 found no blocking error in the reviewed results under their stated assumptions. This was not a full proof audit, formal verification or priority clearance.

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What is included

The report develops fixed-state noisy diagnostic access, complete-law oracle and terminal-channel results, causal self/world attribution, task-relative recovery examples and a conditional physical implementation bridge. The motor and stateful studies are inherited simulations, not device validation. Their contracts differ from R4 and the repair companion.

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The main oracle results require known finite static observation laws, full-carrier history-dependent permissions and always-legal idempotent repeats. Section 6 permits zero likelihoods; exact support-persistence results have separate positivity premises. Changing physical states, resources, kernels or the permission rule needs its own argument. The finite-policy-family guarantee is not a zero-error stopping certificate or a universal ongoing-consistency result.

The source’s historical correction/priority discussions remain source-scoped and dated. They are not official errata or a new independent literature verdict. The targeted review covered the oracle/terminal-channel and task/implementation results, with supporting assumptions; it did not recertify historical challenges. No new simulations or apparatus experiments were performed. The extracted text is a prose aid; use the original PDF and exact source for equations. No full HTML mathematical transcription is claimed.

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