{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_EVIDENCE_LATTICE_V1",
  "version": "2.1",
  "updated": "2026-09-19",
  "principle": "Evidence is claim-indexed and multidimensional. No scalar score converts behavior, mechanism, longitudinal effect or theory indicator into phenomenal consciousness.",
  "dimensions": [
    {
      "id": "BEHAV",
      "name": "Behavioral performance",
      "question": "What does the system do under controlled prompts/tasks?",
      "supports": [
        "task-specific capability",
        "behavioral failure modes"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "mechanism identity",
        "privileged self-access",
        "phenomenal consciousness"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "PRED",
      "name": "Internal predictivity",
      "question": "Do internal states predict correctness, uncertainty or future behavior?",
      "supports": [
        "latent information content",
        "representation-level association"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "causal use by the model",
        "endogenous access",
        "phenomenality"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "CAUSAL",
      "name": "Causal control",
      "question": "Does intervening on an internal signal or policy change behavior as predicted?",
      "supports": [
        "functional involvement",
        "metacognitive control candidate"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "subjective feeling",
        "human-equivalent mechanism",
        "M5"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "PRIV",
      "name": "Privileged self-access",
      "question": "Can the model exploit information about itself unavailable to matched external/input-only controls?",
      "supports": [
        "M3 candidate under stringent controls"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "unitary self",
        "phenomenal consciousness"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ENG",
      "name": "Engineered metacognition",
      "question": "Does an added head/controller/memory/reflection procedure improve monitoring or correction?",
      "supports": [
        "constructible functional metacognition",
        "system-design evidence"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "natural introspection in the base model",
        "subjectivity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LONG",
      "name": "Longitudinal human-AI coupling",
      "question": "Do repeated interactions produce time-dependent human or relational changes?",
      "supports": [
        "interaction-level downstream effects"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "model consciousness",
        "population incidence without representative designs"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "THEORY",
      "name": "Theory-derived consciousness indicators",
      "question": "Does architecture/function instantiate properties motivated by consciousness theories?",
      "supports": [
        "theory-conditional credence updates"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "binary consciousness verdict",
        "theory-independent proof"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "canonical_nonconversion": [
    "BEHAV->M5",
    "PRED->M5",
    "CAUSAL->M5",
    "PRIV->M5",
    "ENG->M5",
    "LONG->M5",
    "THEORY->M5"
  ],
  "cross_axis_loops": [
    {
      "id": "EPISTEMIC_LOOP",
      "path": [
        "world/evidence",
        "uncertainty representation",
        "confidence/readout",
        "control policy",
        "answer/abstain/verify"
      ],
      "axes": [
        "CONFAB",
        "META"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "AGENTIC_LOOP",
      "path": [
        "task",
        "target representation",
        "target identity",
        "environment reality status",
        "scope validation",
        "tool resolution",
        "schema validation",
        "authorization",
        "action",
        "feedback",
        "target/status re-evaluation"
      ],
      "axes": [
        "CONFAB",
        "META"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "RELATIONAL_LOOP",
      "path": [
        "model response",
        "human interpretation",
        "trust/feeling understood",
        "future prompt",
        "human memory/model memory",
        "next response"
      ],
      "axes": [
        "SPIRAL",
        "CONFAB"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "INFERENCE_FIREWALL",
      "path": [
        "behavior/function",
        "mechanism claim",
        "self-access claim",
        "consciousness indicator",
        "phenomenal attribution"
      ],
      "axes": [
        "META",
        "CONSC"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "evidence_regimes": [
    {
      "id": "PEER",
      "name": "Peer-reviewed scientific evidence",
      "rule": "Use for claims tested through formal scientific publication; still claim-specific."
    },
    {
      "id": "PREPRINT",
      "name": "Preprint / lab research",
      "rule": "Potentially important but not peer-reviewed; preserve uncertainty and replication status."
    },
    {
      "id": "INCIDENT",
      "name": "Primary real-world incident report",
      "rule": "Strong evidence that a specific event occurred as documented; weak basis for population frequency, mechanism generalization or mental-state inference."
    },
    {
      "id": "CORROBORATION",
      "name": "Journalistic / independent corroboration",
      "rule": "Useful for event confirmation and attributed statements; not a substitute for a scientific experiment."
    }
  ]
}