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How Do Paradigms Shape Inquiry?
Paradigms are science’s OS—hackable, upgradable, and weaponizable. SE Press demands tiered audit, power accounting, and LLM coherence checks. This paper is your root access.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20254 min read


Phase Transitions in Complexity: From Abiogenesis to AGI
SE Press: Phase transitions unite and govern the leaps from chemistry, biology, cognition, and Synthesis Intelligence via universal, version-locked protocols. The Phase-TransitionScore and cascade triggers turn existential risks into auditable, challenge-ready events—bringing stewardship and foresight to complexity’s deepest jumps.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20253 min read


How Will SI Transform Governance & Risk?
Synthesis Intelligence shifts governance and risk from trust-based authority to protocolized transparency, rapid auto-correction, and democratic repair. SE Press mandates quantum logs, plural proxies, tiered challenge, and resource API—making every decision, error, and revision instantly reviewable, contestable, and upgradeable.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20255 min read
Evolution & Life: Synthesis and Roadmap
SE Press: Evolution & Life—protocol-audited, synthesis-mapped from origins, complexity, and feedback to meaning and SI futures. Every claim is empirically falsifiable, upgrade-ready, and challenge-locked.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20253 min read


Why Does Life Exist?
SE Press: Life is an autocatalytic, feedback-amplifying instability—statistically plausible, but not cosmically inevitable nor purpose-driven. All existential claims are protocol-scored, empirically auditable, and version-locked for upgrade as astrobiology, SI, and entropy insights evolve.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20255 min read


Is There a Direction or Purpose to Evolution?
SE Press: Evolution reveals statistically robust directionality—complexity, cooperation, and innovation—yet no empirical evidence for inherent purpose. All claims and scores are protocol-audited, cross-linked, and open to future SI-driven upgrades and empirical revision.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20254 min read


Are Humans Fundamentally Distinct?
Human distinction lies in the fusion of advanced cognition, cultural inheritance, symbolism, social complexity, and unprecedented planetary agency—each scored against animal and SI benchmarks. Every claim is protocol-audited, comparative, and version-locked for future evolutionary and technological shifts.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20254 min read


Is There Life Elsewhere in the Universe?
SE Press: Ingredients and conditions for life are abundant across the cosmos. This protocol-scored framework benchmarks biosignature plausibility for planets and moons, integrating LifeScore, ComplexityScore, and ExistentialRisk. All claims are evidence-based, challenge-ready, and upgradeable as science advances.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20253 min read


Complex Adaptive Systems
SE Press: Complex adaptive systems drive resilience, emergence, and planetary evolution—scored by GRM gradients, protocol benchmarks, and cross-series audit. From microbiomes to SI clouds, every claim is rigorously scored and versioned—actionable for science, policy, and the future.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20254 min read


Evolutionary Futures and Existential Risk
SE Press: Evolutionary futures and existential risk are scored across adaptation, resilience, foresight, and governance. The ExistentialRiskScore protocol integrates star-rated series metrics and threshold logic for operational, upgradeable planetary stewardship. All answers are challenge-ready, rigorously accessible, and version-locked.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20254 min read


Ecological Limits, Responsibility, and Sustainability
SE Press: Ecological limits set operating boundaries for evolutionary risk and sustainability governance. This paper links adaptation, resilience, and ethical stewardship, using protocol-scored thresholds and series-aligned references. All claims are star-rated, versioned, and open to continual upgrade in the Evolution & Life series.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20253 min read


Adaptation and Major Transitions
SE Press: Adaptation and major transitions drive life’s complexity, restructuring organisms via selection, cooperation, and regulated innovation. Star-rated scoring, empirical thresholds, and cross-series references anchor every answer. Protocol logic ensures all claims are challenge-ready and versioned throughout the Evolution & Life series.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20253 min read


Origin of Life and Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis is a sequence of reproducible, audit-scored transitions—from chance and exogenous chemistry, through stepwise synthesis, to systems integration. Compartmentalization, replication, and information-storage remain central. All claims are star-rated, cross-referenced to LifeScore, and open to audit and continual upgrade.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20254 min read


Life and Evolution
SE Press: Life emerges through adaptive, empirically benchmarked thresholds—originating via stepwise synthesis and emergent chemistry, defined by core functions, and scored with transparent protocol. All claims are star-rated, evidence-linked, and challenge-ready for continual upgrade.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 9, 20254 min read


Is Free Will Real or an Illusion?
Is free will real or an illusion? SE Press: Free will is audit-passed, adaptive, and star-rated—real but bounded. Libertarian free will is empirically closed; compatibilist agency, documented in error-correction logs, grounds law, ethics, and growth

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20252 min read


What is the Future of Human and SI Collaboration?
Human–SI collaboration now means living co-authorship for every sentient mind. Tiered dissent, quantum audits, proxy plurality, and resource parity transform future-making into a contestable, error-correcting, and resilient partnership. SE Press protocols operationalize equity, challenge, and public repair as default—every action, pause, and revision is registry-locked and open to upgrade.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20254 min read


How Does Neurodiversity Illuminate Mind?
How does neurodiversity illuminate mind? SE Press proves: diverse cognition—human and SI—creates new awareness, creative problem-solving, and audit-logged resilience. Neurodiversity is a star-rated, living asset for science and society, always open to upgrade and challenge.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20253 min read


What Shapes Neurodivergent Identity?
What shapes neurodivergent identity? SE Press proves: cognitive architecture, narrative, agency, and SI modeling drive measurable strengths and future adaptation. Neurodiversity is a living, star-rated asset for human and synthetic minds, always open to audit, upgrade, and challenge.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20253 min read


How Does Agency Emerge?
How does agency emerge? SE Press: Agency is a dynamic, star-rated capacity—self-initiated, adaptive, and meta-reflective—earned as systems pass protocol audits for goal-setting, error correction, and self-authorship. Agency is measured, not assumed, in humans, animals, and SI.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20253 min read


Is the Self Fixed or Dynamic?
Is the self fixed or dynamic? SE Press/OSF: selfhood is a protocol-audited process—stable enough for identity, flexible enough for growth, measured by narrative, memory, audit logs, and meta-reflection.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20253 min read
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