Published June 10, 2026 | Version v1

The Grounding Canon: Reality-Bounded Improvement, Grounding Laws, and the Cost of External Receipts

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This technical report introduces the Grounding Canon, a theory and evidence framework for reality-bounded improvement in imagine-then-act systems. The framework formalizes a certification gap G, an external-contact information variable I_real, and a set of linked claims: Grounding Conservation, Reality-Bounded Improvement, the Grounding Arrow, the Grounding Demon, context-dimensional grounding cost, and GEE/VoRC as a contact-allocation mechanism. The public evidence package summarizes controlled cloud simulations, public-data and public-model shadow lanes, local finance method audits, negative and mixed results, and package-reviewed hardening witnesses for GEE value conditions and I_real estimator robustness. The release does not claim real-world deployment, third-party replication, live trading readiness, robot/VLA validation, unconditional GEE superiority, or completed [R] real-system validation.

 

Public navigation and challenge routes:
Main site: https://mianzhang.org/
Public paper index: https://mianzhang.org/papers/
Concept index: https://mianzhang.org/concepts/
GitHub source and public issue routes: https://github.com/mmjbds/mianzhang.org and https://github.com/mmjbds/mianzhang.org/issues/new/choose
Hugging Face technical mirror: https://mmjbds-mianzhang-org.static.hf.space/
HF Space repository: https://huggingface.co/spaces/MMJBDS/mianzhang-org

Use this Zenodo DOI landing page as citation authority. The linked public routes provide navigation, issue routing, evidence boundaries, and challenge reports.

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Evidence tags in this release distinguish theorem/definition claims [T], controlled witnesses [C], public or local shadow evidence [R-shadow], package-reviewed hardening [H-reviewed], and real-system validation [R]. The [H-reviewed] tag means reviewed inside this release package with explicit boundaries; it does not mean independent third-party peer review. This record contains no [R] claim. Text and documentation are intended under CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Code and third-party data, if released in future artifact versions, remain subject to their own licenses. This public record should not be used as a double-blind submission artifact.

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