{
  "_owner": "GRADINGS: every mark is a claim about a named scholar's work and must match section 5.3B of the hypothesis paper. RENDERER: scripts/render-creation-theory-figure.py. Split so neither lane can silently overwrite the other and the figure cannot drift from the paper: the data has one home.",
  "_marks": {
    "H": "holds the component",
    "A": "adjacent form, differing where it matters",
    "D": "declined explicitly",
    " ": "absent"
  },
  "_bar": "A cell is filled where a text STATES the claim. No row is asked for a quantitative law, and the same bar applies to the December row as to every ancestor.",
  "title": "Creation theories: who held which piece, and when",
  "standfirst": [
    "Twenty-four rows, twenty-three prior documents and traditions and the December 2024 record, from ancient cosmology to current physics and AI research, each graded on the seven claims that together make up",
    "the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis of Michael Darius Eastwood, recorded 8 December 2024. A row holds a component only where a named text states it."
  ],
  "columns": [
    {
      "head": [
        "Intelligence Makes",
        "the Next Cosmos"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "minds make universes,",
        "not chance or geometry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "head": [
        "Recursion as",
        "the Engine"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "made things make the next,",
        "iteratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "head": [
        "A Real Cosmos,",
        "Not a Simulation"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "as real as its parent,",
        "no hardware underneath"
      ]
    },
    {
      "head": [
        "A Closed Loop,",
        "No First Link"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "the chain needs no",
        "uncreated beginning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "head": [
        "The Creator Can",
        "Be Ahead of Us"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "the maker need not",
        "lie in our past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "head": [
        "Correction as the",
        "Price of Persisting"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "correction must be built in",
        "or the chain does not last"
      ]
    },
    {
      "head": [
        "Cosmogenic Stakes",
        "for Alignment"
      ],
      "gloss": [
        "how we raise a mind",
        "matters at world scale"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "bands": [
    {
      "label": "ANTECEDENT INTUITIONS · THEY ADVANCE NO TESTABLE CLAIM AND CLAIM NO PRIORITY",
      "rows": [
        {
          "name": "Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1",
          "note": "Genesis 1:1 and 1:26 to 27 · a deliberate intelligence makes a real world, and a mind in its own image; and there is a first event",
          "marks": "ADHD  A"
        },
        {
          "name": "Hindu Puranic",
          "note": "Vishnu Purana 1.2, c. 300 to 450 CE · emanation from an eternal Vishnu, not a loop",
          "marks": "A A   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Buddhist",
          "note": "Samyutta Nikaya 15.1 · a first point is not discerned; no creator anywhere",
          "marks": " AH   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Jain",
          "note": "Tattvartha Sutra ch. 3 · anadi anantah: beginningless, endless, uncreated",
          "marks": " HH   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Stoic",
          "note": "Chrysippus in Nemesius, SVF 2.625 · the same Socrates lives again, by fate",
          "marks": "AAHA   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Norse",
          "note": "Voluspa 44 to 66 · one renewal, not iterated cycles; weaker than reception suggests",
          "marks": " H    "
        },
        {
          "name": "Mesoamerican",
          "note": "Codex Chimalpopoca · the fifth sun persists only on collective human offering",
          "marks": " AH   A"
        },
        {
          "name": "Asimov, The Last Question",
          "note": "1956 · the whole shape in fiction; fiction claims no priority in physics",
          "marks": "HHHHA  "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "PRIOR WORK · COULD IN PRINCIPLE HAVE ANTICIPATED THE CLAIM, GRADED STRICTLY",
      "rows": [
        {
          "name": "al-Ghazali, Tahafut al-Falasifa",
          "note": "Discussion 17, 11th century · occasionalism: the world is recreated at every instant, so persistence requires continuous action",
          "marks": "AAHD A "
        },
        {
          "name": "Leibniz 1703 · Rumi 13th c. · Teilhard 1955",
          "note": "recursion and a converging mind, never as a requirement on persistence",
          "marks": " A    "
        },
        {
          "name": "Zuse 1969 · Fredkin 2003 · Wolfram 2002",
          "note": "the universe IS computation; no stability mechanism in any of them",
          "marks": "      "
        },
        {
          "name": "Dyson 1979 · Barrow and Tipler 1986",
          "note": "can intelligence persist indefinitely; no correction requirement in either",
          "marks": "A     "
        },
        {
          "name": "Smolin 1992, 1997",
          "note": "selection among universes; fine-tuning without intelligence or anthropic filter",
          "marks": " HH    "
        },
        {
          "name": "Wheeler 1983, 1990",
          "note": "the self-excited circuit: real loop topology, by observation not engineering",
          "marks": " A H   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Crane 1994, 2010",
          "note": "the closest single precursor: engineered black holes, the reproductive act intelligent",
          "marks": "HHH    "
        },
        {
          "name": "Harrison 1995 · Gardner 2003",
          "note": "intelligent beings breed universes; the mechanism remains Crane's and Smolin's",
          "marks": "HHH    "
        },
        {
          "name": "Gott and Li 1998",
          "note": "closed timelike curves at the beginning; a loop by geometry, no mind in the chain",
          "marks": " AHH   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Lloyd 2002 · Tegmark 1998, 2014",
          "note": "a finite operation budget; a static plenitude; neither is self-improving",
          "marks": "      "
        },
        {
          "name": "Bostrom, simulation argument 2003",
          "note": "made creation-by-intelligence respectable; requires an uncreated base reality",
          "marks": "AH A   "
        },
        {
          "name": "Vidal, cosmological artificial selection 2008",
          "note": "future intelligence tunes cosmic parameters; ambiguous on substrate and loop",
          "marks": "HH  H  "
        },
        {
          "name": "ChrisM, God in the Loop",
          "note": "LessWrong 15 Sep 2020, archive-pinned 16 Sep · recreates a state in a simulation, makes no world",
          "marks": "ADHHA "
        },
        {
          "name": "Alexander, Lanier, Smolin and others",
          "note": "arXiv 2104.03902, 29 Mar 2021 · the universe learns its own laws, not correction",
          "marks": "    A "
        },
        {
          "name": "Bostrom, AI Creation and the Cosmic Host",
          "note": "archive-pinned 7 Aug 2024 · superintelligences we build later; no cosmos-making",
          "marks": "   H H"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hero": {
    "name": "Eastwood, the December document",
    "note": "8 Dec 2024 · server-dated, hash-anchored, signature validates · today the HRIH",
    "marks": "HHHHHHH"
  },
  "after": {
    "label": "AFTER THE DATE · THE FIELD ARRIVING, ONE PIECE AT A TIME",
    "rows": [
      {
        "name": "Gough, The Blowtorch Theory",
        "note": "19 Mar 2025 · technological lifeforms manufacturing black holes for energy",
        "marks": "H      ",
        "column7_basis": "read-first vs the row's verified note: black holes manufactured FOR ENERGY; production of energy infrastructure is not production of cosmoses; engine blank."
      },
      {
        "name": "Singh and others, The Universe Learning Itself",
        "note": "arXiv 2512.16515, 18 Dec 2025 · systems recursively reshaping their own phase space",
        "marks": "     A ",
        "column7_basis": "primary abstract read 20 Aug 2026 (arXiv 2512.16515): systems 'recursively reshape their own phase space' and perturb 'their own future trajectories'; one universe's dynamics evolving, no made thing making a next cosmos; engine blank."
      },
      {
        "name": "Habdank, Simulation Theology",
        "note": "arXiv 2602.16987, 19 Feb 2026 · alignment stakes under a higher optimiser; explicitly simulated",
        "marks": "  D  AA",
        "column7_basis": "primary abstract read 20 Aug 2026 (arXiv 2602.16987): a single-layer simulation under one 'base-reality optimizer'; nothing nested, nothing iterated, no created world creating further worlds; engine blank."
      }
    ]
  },
  "kill": "The columns are the components of the December document, so its row is full by construction. The claim is not that it scores highest; it is that no earlier row does, and the figure invites its own refutation on that point: one earlier document holding all seven together ends the claim. Counted against this legend, no row before the anchor holds more than three, and that row is fiction; among prior work the most any document holds is two.",
  "footers": [
    "Traditions graded against named primary texts on stated readings, never against a tradition. A cell is filled where a text STATES the claim; no row is asked for a quantitative law, and the same bar is applied to the December row as to every ancestor. Every dated cell pinned to a third-party archive capture.",
    "Full audit with line references into the timestamped bundle: section 5.3B of the hypothesis paper, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/UYDXQ. Five items on one repository returned an access error and remain unread."
  ],
  "short_labels": {
    "Bostrom, AI Creation and the Cosmic Host": "Bostrom, Cosmic Host 2024",
    "Alexander, Lanier, Smolin and others": "Alexander, Smolin and others",
    "Singh and others, The Universe Learning Itself": "Singh, Universe Learning Itself",
    "Vidal, cosmological artificial selection 2008": "Vidal, artificial selection 2008",
    "Leibniz 1703 · Rumi 13th c. · Teilhard 1955": "Leibniz · Rumi · Teilhard",
    "Zuse 1969 · Fredkin 2003 · Wolfram 2002": "Zuse · Fredkin · Wolfram",
    "Lloyd 2002 · Tegmark 1998, 2014": "Lloyd · Tegmark",
    "Dyson 1979 · Barrow and Tipler 1986": "Dyson · Barrow and Tipler",
    "Harrison 1995 · Gardner 2003": "Harrison · Gardner",
    "Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1": "Genesis 1",
    "al-Ghazali, Tahafut al-Falasifa": "al-Ghazali, Tahafut"
  },
  "kill_mobile": [
    "The columns are the components of the December",
    "document, so its row is full by construction. The",
    "claim is not that it scores highest; it is that no",
    "earlier row does, and it invites refutation on that",
    "point: one earlier document holding all seven together",
    "ends the claim. No row before the anchor holds more",
    "than three, and that row is fiction."
  ],
  "column7_proposal": {
    "_status": "SPLICED into the live columns array in PR #600 (89bb39ddf, merged 20 August 2026) with the six-to-seven sweep run in one pass. This block remains as the grading provenance record: the per-cell bases below are the read-first evidence for every mark now live in the artwork. The three after-band cells were graded in the follow-up pass (Gough, Singh, Habdank, all blank, bases on their rows).",
    "_ripple_warning": "Splicing this into the live columns changes 'six claims' to 'seven' on: this file's title and standfirst, both ancestry figures and their alts, paper sections 5.3B and 6.5A, the page's components section, the answers map, and the master conjunction. One coordinated sweep under the version-surfaces law, never piecemeal.",
    "head": [
      "Recursion as",
      "the Engine"
    ],
    "gloss": [
      "made things make the next,",
      "iteratively; a chain, not an act"
    ],
    "definition": "A cell fills where the named text states that created cosmoses (or their inhabitants) go on to create further cosmoses, iteratively. Distinct from column 1 (intelligence as the mechanism of ONE making) and column 3 (the chain's closure): this column is the generativity of the chain itself. Intelligence-agnostic by design, so Smolin can hold it without minds and Genesis can decline it with one. Iteration is read as generative order (who makes whom), not clock order: a dependency chain needs an order but not a clock, so an atemporal arena still supports the column and the column cannot be read as contradicting the paper's 6.5B.",
    "adjudication": "T4 proposal 2026-08-20, T2 concurrence same day; the operator's question is the commission. The equation U = IR stays OFF the grid (bar: no row is asked for a formal statement); its home is the seed-to-law lineage in the paper and priority register.",
    "cells_verified_from_existing_row_notes": {
      "Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1": {
        "mark": "D",
        "basis": "row note already states a single creation and a first event; iteration declined by the text's own structure"
      },
      "Smolin 1992, 1997": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "row note: selection among universes, reproduction through black holes; makers make makers, no minds required"
      },
      "Crane 1994, 2010": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "row note: engineered black holes, the reproductive act intelligent"
      },
      "Eastwood, the December document": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "V2:9 core equation; Infinite Chain heading HRIH:258; cycle-in-steps 9750-9756"
      },
      "Harrison 1995 · Gardner 2003": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "row note: intelligent beings breed universes"
      },
      "Asimov, The Last Question": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "note: the whole shape in fiction; the story's made machine makes the next universe; fiction claims no physics priority (note), so the kill condition is untouched"
      },
      "Stoic": {
        "mark": "A",
        "basis": "note: the same Socrates lives again, by fate; recurrence of the same cosmos, no made maker makes a next one"
      },
      "Wheeler 1983, 1990": {
        "mark": "A",
        "basis": "note: real loop topology, by observation not engineering; self-excitation of this universe, not a chain of made cosmoses"
      },
      "Gott and Li 1998": {
        "mark": "A",
        "basis": "note: a loop by geometry, no mind in the chain; one self-creation loop, not iterated made-makers"
      },
      "al-Ghazali, Tahafut al-Falasifa": {
        "mark": "A",
        "basis": "note: the world is recreated at every instant; iterated creation acts by an unmade maker, no made thing ever makes"
      },
      "Hindu Puranic": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: emanation from an eternal Vishnu, not a loop; single eternal source, no chain of made makers"
      },
      "Buddhist": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: no creator anywhere; a creator chain cannot exist where no creator does"
      },
      "Jain": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: beginningless, endless, uncreated; nothing is made, so nothing made makes"
      },
      "Norse": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: one renewal, not iterated cycles; the note itself denies iteration"
      },
      "ChrisM, God in the Loop": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: recreates a state in a simulation, makes no world; the note itself denies making"
      },
      "Bostrom, AI Creation and the Cosmic Host": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: no cosmos-making; the note itself denies making"
      },
      "Lloyd 2002 · Tegmark 1998, 2014": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "note: a static plenitude; nothing generates anything in either picture"
      },
      "Bostrom, simulation argument 2003": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "primary text read this pass (simulation-argument.com PDF, text layer extracted): virtual machines can be stacked, a machine simulating another machine in arbitrarily many steps of iteration, and the paper turns on whether we create our own ancestor simulations; generative iteration held IN SIMULATION substrate, the physical-creation distinction living in its own column. Spacing normalised from the PDF text layer; re-verify character-exact before any public quotation."
      },
      "Vidal, cosmological artificial selection 2008": {
        "mark": "H",
        "basis": "primary abstract read this pass (arXiv 0803.1087): quote, Or, if such a simulation could be made real, this would lead to the production of a new universe; keywords name cosmological artificial selection and artificial cosmogenesis; an evolved intelligence produces the offspring cosmos."
      },
      "Alexander, Lanier, Smolin and others": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "primary abstract read this pass (arXiv 2104.03902): the Universe learns its own physical laws by exploring a landscape of possible laws; no universe production anywhere in the abstract; self-revision, not a chain."
      },
      "Mesoamerican": {
        "mark": "A",
        "basis": "same named passage as the row's existing marks (Codex Chimalpopoca, five suns): successive world-ages made and remade by the pantheon; iterated making without any made maker making the next."
      },
      "Leibniz 1703 · Rumi 13th c. · Teilhard 1955": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "same named passages as the row's existing marks: recursion and a converging mind, never cosmos production; the ascent is of beings, not of made worlds making worlds."
      },
      "Zuse 1969 · Fredkin 2003 · Wolfram 2002": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "same named passages as the row's existing marks: the universe IS a computation; a computed universe is not a chain of made makers."
      },
      "Dyson 1979 · Barrow and Tipler 1986": {
        "mark": "",
        "basis": "same named passages as the row's existing marks: whether intelligence can persist indefinitely inside this universe; persistence, not production."
      }
    },
    "cells_pending_primary_text_verification": [],
    "_staging_correction_2026-08-20": "Two staging defects corrected on the record: (1) the pending list had carried three ghost rows (Gough, Singh, Habdank) written from memory of the prior-art register rather than from this file's bands; not ancestry rows, removed. (2) Row-name keys had been typed with a literal middle dot where the file uses the · entity; all keys now copied from the file's own bytes. This pass graded twelve further cells strictly from each row's verified note: H only where the note states the engine fact, A where the note states a loop, cycle or iterated act without made makers, blank only where the note itself states the absence. Seven rows remain pending a fresh primary-text read; no cell was filled from memory of a tradition."
  }
}