039_D5.3_Witness-Field-Operator

D5.3 — Witness Field Operator

Chain Position: 39 of 188

Assumes

• [Consciousness](./038_D5.2_Integrated-Information-Phi]]

Formal Statement

** Witness Field Φ̂ ≡ operator mapping potential→actual: H→H_actualized.

Enables

• 040_P5.1_Phi-Admits-Degrees

Defeat Conditions

• Demonstrate that “Witness Field Phi-hat = operator mapping potential to actual” is false, inconsistent, or inapplicable to the claimed domain.
• Reject one of the upstream assumptions (038_D5.2_Integrated-Information-Phi) to collapse this axiom.

Standard Objections

• Objection: “Witness Field Phi-hat = operator mapping potential to actual” is just a re-labeling of the status quo without new grounding.
• Response: Each dependency 038_D5.2_Integrated-Information-Phi is already defended, so rejecting them would collapse the shared foundation.

Defense Summary

• Witness Field Phi-hat = operator mapping potential to actual
• Built on: 038_D5.2_Integrated-Information-Phi.
• Enables: 040_P5.1_Phi-Admits-Degrees.

Collapse Analysis

• Breaks downstream: 040_P5.1_Phi-Admits-Degrees

Source Material

• 01_Axioms/_sources/Theophysics_Axiom_Spine_Master.xlsx (sheets explained in dump)
• 01_Axioms/AXIOM_AGGREGATION_DUMP.md

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Depends On:

• [Consciousness](./038_D5.2_Integrated-Information-Phi]]

Enables:

• 040_P5.1_Phi-Admits-Degrees

Related Categories:

• [Consciousness/.md)

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