Conditional Stability Supplement I: A Minimal Worked Example for Survival-Level Assessment
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This supplement provides a minimal reproducible worked example for the survival-level protocol introduced in the main article Conditional Stability and Configurational Action: Reality as Persistence under Changing Conditions.
The aim of the supplement is not to provide an external empirical proof of the broader philosophical-methodological framework. Instead, it demonstrates how a candidate pattern (P), a transformation set (T), and the criteria of identifiability, effectiveness, and constraint can be operationalized in a controlled simulation environment.
The supplement uses a simple two-dimensional trajectory task comparing three strategies: a local proxy-seeking strategy, a goal-only strategy, and a conditionally stable strategy that reconfigures behavior under proxy pressure and constraint shifts. The simulation evaluates whether a candidate pattern remains identifiable, effective, and constraining across baseline repetition, noise perturbation, observation-frame shift, proxy pressure, constraint shift, combined pressure, and scale/window transformation.
The results illustrate a central point of the main framework: repeated local stability is insufficient for cross-condition stability. Strategies that appear stable under baseline, noise, and frame transformations may collapse when the condition-space is altered through proxy pressure or constraint shifts.
The supplement also introduces an important methodological clarification: survival levels should be treated as cumulative evidential bundles rather than independent condition scores. A high score under one later transformation does not automatically justify a higher survival level if the pattern fails earlier required transformations.
The package includes the manuscript, simulation code, run-level CSV data, summary tables, confidence intervals, threshold sensitivity analysis, critical separation outputs, figures, and documentation.
Main article DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20826062
Supplement DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20833143