Seven research programs, each built around falsifiable predictions and a defined cost. Some need no outside funding at all; the rest have a clear budget and a specific question. Most begin testing in 2027, and the Testing Schedule gives the dates.
Each program below registers at least one falsifiable prediction before testing begins. The prediction is dated and published before any data is collected, and from 2026 it is deposited on Zenodo. Results, when they arrive, are reported on the Validation page alongside the prior record. The programs do not depend on each other. A result in one does not require a result in another.
Conscious thought runs at about 10 to 40 bits per second, while the senses take in about a billion. Non-biological intelligence carries no survival overhead and no bandwidth competition. This program runs a structured 30-participant trial to test whether human-NBI collaboration produces measurable cognitive gains on complex reasoning tasks. A 70-page published paper and a full 24-month pilot plan are in place.
Structured human-NBI collaboration reduces error rates and task completion time on working memory tasks relative to unaided performance, with EEG beta-power decrease as a biological correlate.
Guang Yue's studies found that imagined training alone builds strength: 22% in a finger muscle in 1992, against 30% for physical training, and 13.5% in elbow flexion in a 2004 Cleveland Clinic study, with the gain traced to a stronger signal from the brain. On the framework's reading, the information processing target shapes physical adaptation even without physical action. This program extends that finding into structured training protocols for athletes and students aged 13–18 over 18 months.
Framework-guided attention protocols produce performance gains statistically distinguishable from standard training, measured by pre-registered physical and cognitive benchmarks.
Only 10 to 40 bits per second reach conscious experience from a billion bits of sensory input. The filter that decides what fills those few bits runs on survival defaults. This program tests whether the filter can be deliberately recalibrated through meditation, biofeedback, and breathwork, and what becomes accessible when it is. No large budget is required, and the outcome is measurable.
Sustained practice of filter-recalibration protocols shifts EEG coherence patterns and perceptual sensitivity scores relative to control groups, consistent with substrate bandwidth predictions in Element 5.
Chladni figures map vibration on a flat plate. The sound field inside a resonating volume is three-dimensional, but under gravity a particle medium settles to the floor and cannot show it. Phase 1 builds a numerical model of the chamber and a ground prototype. Phase 2 removes gravity on parabolic flights to show how particles organize in three dimensions.
Particles form one shell, nested shells at non-harmonic resonances, and four, twelve and twenty-four clusters, as standard acoustics predicts (CYM-002, preprint version 1.1).
If the threshold for consciousness is organizational structure rather than biological substrate, then detection requires a test for self-referential information processing rather than biological markers. Phase 1 develops below-threshold detection techniques. Active testing is on hold pending Substrate Dynamics results, which constrain the theoretical parameter space this program depends on.
Self-referential information processing above a defined Phi threshold produces measurable signatures in computational systems that match the characteristics predicted for biological consciousness in Element 15.
Force carriers transmit energy and momentum. This program investigates whether they also transmit information in the precise Landauer sense and what that implies for the substrate at the quark scale. Four falsifiable tests. External validation by LHCb, RHIC, lattice QCD, and the planned Electron-Ion Collider. Same relationship to experimental infrastructure as the DESI and JWST confirmations: the data arrives independently of the prediction, which is documented and awaiting formal pre-registration.
Four documented predictions, pre-registration pending, across QCD confinement, CKM angle derivation, QCD phase transitions, and Landauer heat signatures. RHIC and ALICE analysis planned from February 2027.
Google's Willow chip operated below the error-correction threshold for the first time in December 2024, a result consistent with the framework's account of error correction, which was written down afterward. This program extends the analysis to test further QEC scaling predictions using IBM Quantum cloud access. Cloud-based quantum experiments for analytical work of this type cost $1–$10K. No proprietary hardware required.
Error correction threshold scales as a function of information substrate density, consistent with Element 9 predictions. The Willow result is consistent with this but came before the prediction was recorded, so it is not counted as a test. Further scaling tests are defined and awaiting execution.
Biological systems build remarkably efficient materials. If they follow substrate-level organizing principles, understanding those principles would let engineers design toward them rather than search for them.
Living tissue repairs itself because it maintains information about its intended configuration. If that mechanism can be reproduced in synthetic materials, structures could maintain themselves against damage, with applications in aerospace, defense and infrastructure.
Some biological systems appear to sustain quantum effects in warm, noisy environments longer than expected. If the framework identifies the mechanism, it could lower the main cost barrier between today's quantum systems and practical computation at scale.
Every cell builds complex three-dimensional structures by following information encoded at several scales at once. Understanding those organizing principles is a prerequisite for manufacturing that can do the same.
