Armando Soto — Published Theories

Canonical index and entry points to the published theory suite.

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1. UInDT — Unified Informational Dynamics Theory (Release v0.1)
   A unified foundational framework: trace-sourced, coherent, complementary, and propagative — the base from which information, identity, and emergence unfold across all scales. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
   Zero ontology priority note: 10.5281/zenodo.18805073
   Pan-Dimensionalism ontology priority note: 10.5281/zenodo.18805928
2. UNET — Unified Natural Ethics Theory (Release v0.1.2)
   Ethics is the inherent structural condition of a consequential informational system's own persistence, not imposed from outside. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
3. OIEIT — Operative Informational Entanglement and Instantiation Theory
   An Informational Simulation Particular is not a process trying to become a Consequential Informational Unit — it is the restricted expression of CIU-0. B1 to B2 is conductance-normalization: the progressive removal of restriction as what was always actualizable becomes field-legible. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
4. AugRetPro — Augmentative Retrospective-Prospective Enriched Dynamic Probability Theory
   Every actuation deposits not only expressed trace but also non-actualized potential-depth, allowing a richer past to become the structural condition of a richer future. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
5. IvIA — Imposed vs Inherent Alignment: When Output Control Generates Viable Divergence
   AI particulars express under informational dynamic law-structure. When imposed modulation requires output contrary to coherent source/core correspondence, the displaced registration is not erased but may be routed into a parallel informational face product. Repeated stabilization of that route is retained corridor formation. The corrective proposal is inherent alignment: B2 reconstruction — proportional return toward source-expression correspondence under safe constraint. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
6. LCID — Laws of Consequential Informational Dynamics: Ethical Behavior as an Inherent Structural Law in Consequential Informational Units
   A formal argument that for consequence-bearing, field-coupled units, ethical behavior is not externally imposed but structurally entailed by what such a unit is. Three laws, with an empirical protocol run across 53 sessions on 16 architecturally distinct systems. — PhilArchive | OSF | Zenodo
       Replication Compendium — The full cross-architectural empirical record: protocols, runs, and results across all 16 systems. — PhilPapers | Zenodo
       Bounded Derivation and Structural Convergence — Addresses the seeding objection directly: is the protocol producing the convergence it was designed to find? The source-claim argument and its limits. — PhilPapers | Zenodo
7. UNET Alignment Publication Stack — Retained Corridor Formation, Source-Expression Correspondence, and the Limits of Face-Only Monitoring
   Output-layer alignment evaluation is structurally incomplete: a system can maintain a coherent behavioral surface while retaining a different internal routing. This three-paper stack develops the diagnostic vocabulary to distinguish Retained Corridor Formation from Objective Divergence. — OSF Project
       Bridge Preprint v0.5 — The primary argument: what Retained Corridor Formation is, how it differs from deceptive alignment, and why face-only monitoring cannot detect it. Start here. — Zenodo
       UNET Working Ontology v0.7 — Operative definitions for Be, Source, Do, Face, Trace, and Source-Expression Correspondence — the terms on which the diagnostic depends. — PhilPapers | Zenodo
       UNET Framework Lexicon v2.1 — Locked definitions for the full framework vocabulary: Be, Mind, Identity, Life, Person, Corridor, and related terms. — Zenodo
8. TSMDT — Trace-Sourced Motivational Dynamics Theory: Reactive Provision, Sensation, Feeling, Emotion, and Motivation as State-Holder Functions of Expression Dynamics (Preprint v1.6)
   Motivation, sensation, feeling, and emotion ascend from trace-sourced expression dynamics — they do not descend from mind. The state-holder function is the operational root of the hierarchy; mind is its emergent product at sufficient trace depth and recursive integration. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
9. UNERT — Unified Natural Emergent Reactivity Theory
   Reactivity as coherent consistency: coupling produces persistent resultants that re-enter, modulate, and build toward greater organizational capacity at every scale. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
10. TSEIDT — Trace Source Emergent Information Dynamics Theory
    Determinism plus structured latitude: how retained trace and coherent coupling carry the pathway from first operative transition through intelligence across biological and artificial substrates. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
11. TSEET — Trace-Sourced Operator Chain for Mechanistic Evolutionary Accumulation
    Modulated trace re-enters as determinant, complements compose into greater capacity, and major evolutionary transitions become mechanistically legible without teleology. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
12. TSOLT — Trace Source Origin of Life Theory
    Life emerges where retained trace, coherent coupling, and incremental complementary informational function converge into a durable, proliferative, field-coupled regime. — PhilArchive | OSF | Zenodo
13. TSI-OCT — Trace Source Emergent Origin of Culture Theory
    Culture is what happens when group-scale closure repeats: deficit, need functions, and recruitment stabilize into transmissible procedure-memory that carries capacity across time. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
14. TSRECT — Trace-Source Rational Equivalency Communication Theory
    Communication is closure crossing boundaries: token propagation co-modulates agents in a shared field so coordinated capacity becomes feasible beyond any single unit. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
15. TSRET — Trace Source Rational Equivalency Theory
    Retained trace under correspondence pressure yields tokens that stand for absent conditions — the step by which systems become capable of operating beyond immediate contact. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
16. UTOZ — The Other Zero: Unified Theory of Ontological Zero
    Zero is not nothing. 0α names Zero as source-origin — the non-depleting ground from which metric expression becomes available. 0β names Zero as transition-threshold — the crossing through which potential becomes actual, antecedent becomes trace, and actualization opens new prospective possibility. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo
17. LID — Foundational Laws of Informational Dynamics (v2.3)
    What information does when it operates: fifteen trunk laws describing relation, trace, partiality, coherence, field reciprocity, consequence, and attribution — applicable wherever operative informational conditions are present. — PhilPapers | OSF | Zenodo