{
  "record_id": "AKN-UAFT-EXPAND2-20261016-01",
  "date_local": "2026-10-16",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "date_utc": "2026-10-17",
  "scope": "Spiritual-science website assessment and selected primary-source checks",
  "status": "PROVISIONAL_SOURCE_LIMITED; AI-authored, independent human review pending",
  "formal_acceptance": "Not a fully accepted or machine-validated Claim Review Record. Claim text below is explicitly paraphrased.",
  "search_queries": [
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "\"Paul W. Barnes\" \"Unified Axioconscious\" research",
      "purpose": "Identify primary records and external engagement"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "site:axioconsciousness.com theory research",
      "purpose": "Locate site architecture"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system2",
      "q": "\"Quantum Differentiation Resonance\" Barnes",
      "purpose": "Recover QDR manuscript record"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system2",
      "q": "\"Colinear Conservation\" Barnes",
      "purpose": "Recover proposed physics test"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system2",
      "q": "\"Unified Axioconscious\" experiment replication",
      "purpose": "Seek direct independent validation"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "microtubule stabilizing drug epothilone B delays anesthesia rats 2024 eNeuro",
      "purpose": "Check primary empirical basis and contrary findings"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "site.ti.com CMOS logic VIL VIH logic zero voltage",
      "purpose": "Test physical premise in AI exclusion argument"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "\"axioconscious\" experimental validation independent",
      "purpose": "Challenge provisional absence-of-validation finding"
    },
    {
      "engine": "system2",
      "q": "site.dalailama.com emptiness inherent existence consciousness",
      "purpose": "Avoid treating Buddhist emptiness as synonymous with UAFT ground"
    },
    {
      "engine": "Library",
      "q": "\"AkashicOMNI-v0.5.0-Candidate-Specification.md\"",
      "purpose": "Resolve exact candidate methodology",
      "search_title_only": true
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "site:tsc2026.org \"Barnes\"",
      "purpose": "Check official conference listing",
      "recency_days": 30
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "\"Paul Barnes\" \"TSC2026\"",
      "purpose": "Seek a named conference contribution",
      "recency_days": 30
    },
    {
      "engine": "system1",
      "q": "\"Paul W. Barnes\" consciousness conference 2026 talk",
      "purpose": "Cross-check talk attribution",
      "recency_days": 30
    }
  ],
  "search_terms_examined": [
    "axioconsciousness",
    "non-dual differentiation",
    "conscious bias",
    "qualia",
    "atemporal",
    "structural memory",
    "gravitytime",
    "Quantum Differentiation Resonance",
    "microtubules",
    "anaesthesia",
    "epothilone B",
    "epothilone D",
    "isoflurane",
    "loss of righting reflex",
    "Binary Severance Threshold",
    "Null State Barrier",
    "VIL",
    "VIH",
    "dependent arising",
    "emptiness",
    "coherence",
    "continuity",
    "personal identity"
  ],
  "source_dependence": "S01–S07 describe one author's programme, not seven independent confirmations. Indexing, DOI registration, social follows and conference participation are not validation.",
  "coverage": [
    [
      "AWAKEN",
      "APPLIED",
      "Distinguish experience from the explanation attached to it; limited public role in S12."
    ],
    [
      "HIERATIC",
      "APPLIED",
      "Compare Barnes's non-dual language with a specifically attributed Buddhist teaching; no all-tradition equivalence."
    ],
    [
      "HOMESENSE",
      "APPLIED",
      "Ask whether an interpretation translates into care, dignity and service; no practical benefit presumed."
    ],
    [
      "ADAPT",
      "APPLIED",
      "Define what new evidence would revise the reading; limited public-role application."
    ],
    [
      "REGENERATE",
      "INSUFFICIENT_INFORMATION",
      "No longitudinal flourishing or restoration outcomes supplied; no efficacy inference."
    ],
    [
      "TRANSCEND",
      "APPLIED",
      "Consider changes in self/world boundaries as possible phenomenological subjects; no experience was measured here."
    ],
    [
      "#METAD",
      "APPLIED",
      "Track source access, dependence, conceptual relations and revisions."
    ],
    [
      "ACTC",
      "APPLIED",
      "Compare coherence, prediction, adaptation, emergence and continuity as conceptual propositions; shared vocabulary is not corroboration."
    ],
    [
      "MultidimensionalCUT · PAST",
      "APPLIED",
      "Separate dated intellectual development from retrospective confirmation; temporal view only."
    ],
    [
      "MultidimensionalCUT · PRESENT",
      "APPLIED",
      "Record currently inspected claims, evidence and gaps; temporal view only."
    ],
    [
      "MultidimensionalCUT · FUTURE",
      "APPLIED",
      "Specify prospective tests and revision conditions; no prediction of success."
    ],
    [
      "UMASC",
      "APPLIED",
      "Separate empirical, phenomenological, philosophical and spiritual claims; record persistence does not establish personal persistence."
    ]
  ],
  "optional_extensions": [
    {
      "name": "AkashicDARK",
      "status": "APPLIED",
      "scope": "Observability only: fundamental field has no identified direct test in inspected sources; proposed QDR/gravitytime consequences would be indirect tests. Unobservability is not evidence."
    }
  ],
  "synthesis": {
    "status": "OUTPUT_PROVISIONAL",
    "text": "UAFT offers a spiritually resonant metaphysical programme and some test proposals. Direct empirical support for the proposed field was not established. Useful for hypothesis comparison; Big Questions remain unresolved."
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "UAFT-A01",
      "paraphrase": "A foundational consciousness field underlies physical reality.",
      "domain": "philosophical",
      "status": "unresolved",
      "sources": [
        "S02"
      ],
      "assessment": "The certainty that experience occurs does not entail the proposed cosmology. Compare consciousness-first, neutral-monist and physicalist accounts without assuming the winner.",
      "revision": "An argument bridging epistemic access to ontology, plus distinctive successful predictions."
    },
    {
      "id": "UAFT-A02",
      "paraphrase": "Microtubule resonance couples organisms to that field.",
      "domain": "empirical",
      "status": "not_established",
      "sources": [
        "S04",
        "S08",
        "S09",
        "S17"
      ],
      "assessment": "Drug-dependent anaesthetic responses motivate research but do not directly measure field coupling. The mouse work reports varying directions and explicitly retains causal uncertainties.",
      "revision": "Operationalise the conference abstract’s prediction that sustained resonance fails before ordinary classical neural signalling: specify measure, timing, sensitivity, comparators, controls and independent replication."
    },
    {
      "id": "UAFT-A03",
      "paraphrase": "The field retains a universal record.",
      "domain": "philosophical",
      "status": "unresolved",
      "sources": [
        "S02"
      ],
      "assessment": "Meaningful comparison with Akashic imagery; no inference to retrievable personal memories, psi or survival follows.",
      "revision": "Define record, access, updating and identity separately; provide controlled evidence for any physical information-transfer claim."
    },
    {
      "id": "UAFT-A04",
      "paraphrase": "Binary architecture necessarily prevents consciousness.",
      "domain": "mixed",
      "status": "not_established",
      "sources": [
        "S02",
        "S07",
        "S10"
      ],
      "assessment": "The website's null-state premise confuses a logical label with physical absence. This challenges the argument but neither proves machine consciousness nor audits the inaccessible full paper.",
      "revision": "Substrate criterion grounded in physical dynamics, applied consistently to biology and machines."
    },
    {
      "id": "UAFT-A05",
      "paraphrase": "Gravitytime predicts a nonzero temporal/force response lag.",
      "domain": "empirical",
      "status": "not_established",
      "sources": [
        "S01",
        "S05"
      ],
      "assessment": "A candidate test merits expert scrutiny. A phase-delay relationship alone does not identify a novel mechanism; instrument transfer functions, effect range and null rejection bounds matter.",
      "revision": "Inspect full revised protocol; preregister operational predictions and falsification bounds, then replicate independently."
    },
    {
      "id": "UAFT-A06",
      "paraphrase": "Contemplative quieting can be interpreted as approaching unity.",
      "domain": "spiritual_interpretive",
      "status": "unresolved",
      "sources": [
        "S02",
        "S03",
        "S11"
      ],
      "assessment": "Potentially useful meaning; it does not uniquely identify the cause of an experience. Buddhist emptiness is not automatically equivalent to a self-grounding field.",
      "revision": "Tradition-specific review and phenomenology compared against explicitly stated alternative mechanisms."
    }
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    "Consciousness-first or neutral-monist metaphysics without UAFT-specific physics",
    "Neural and bodily changes accounting for altered self-experience",
    "Classical cellular or network contributions to anaesthetic response",
    "Tradition-specific contemplative interpretations without a universal memory field"
  ],
  "material_disagreements": [
    "Spiritual interpretive coherence versus empirical underdetermination",
    "Self-grounding field ontology versus the cited Buddhist account of dependent existence",
    "Absolute AI exclusion versus physical representation of logical low/high states"
  ],
  "integration": {
    "reflection": "What changes in attention, relationship and compassionate action when separation feels less dominant?",
    "optional_action": "For ordinary contemplative observations, record experience, interpretation, context and subsequent conduct separately. This would study lived effects, not itself test a cosmic field.",
    "revision_conditions": [
      "Full paper access changes the account of operational predictions",
      "Independent replicated test discriminates QDR/UAFT from competing mechanisms",
      "Author corrects the website's digital-state premise",
      "Qualified cultural review clarifies disputed tradition mapping"
    ]
  },
  "next_steps": [
    {
      "priority": 1,
      "action": "Obtain complete current QDR and Colinear Conservation v2 manuscripts",
      "deliverable": "Versioned full-text sources and a prediction-to-evidence table",
      "reason": "Website summaries cannot establish the adequacy of detailed mechanisms or falsification conditions."
    },
    {
      "priority": 2,
      "action": "Invite Barnes to clarify a single discriminating prediction",
      "deliverable": "Observable, comparator, expected direction/range, null-rejection bound, confounds and disconfirmation condition",
      "reason": "Agreement with existing observations does not distinguish UAFT from alternatives."
    },
    {
      "priority": 3,
      "action": "Prepare a labelled AkashicNET hypothesis entry",
      "deliverable": "Author-attributed metadata, date/version, inspected scope, evidence links, counterpoints and proposed BQ relevance",
      "reason": "Preserve research usefulness while keeping evidence and unresolved claims separate.",
      "boundary": "Public companion published; canonical graph and Big Question state unchanged."
    },
    {
      "priority": 4,
      "action": "Improve the UAFT site's claim-status presentation",
      "deliverable": "Separate hypotheses, preprints, under-review work, peer-reviewed results and planned work; add version dates and evidence/test tables",
      "reason": "Readers should be able to distinguish publication availability from independent validation."
    },
    {
      "priority": 5,
      "action": "Clarify conceptual and technical tensions",
      "deliverable": "Explain why a non-phenomenal ground is named consciousness, how an atemporal record relates to updating, and how digital state claims map to actual electronics",
      "reason": "These are load-bearing assumptions, not merely wording preferences."
    },
    {
      "priority": 6,
      "action": "Design a bounded contemplative study before a cosmic interpretation",
      "deliverable": "Separate first-person reports, attention/body measures, contextual factors and later prosocial behaviour; predefine comparison conditions",
      "reason": "Meaning and practical consequences can be investigated without assuming the field explanation.",
      "boundary": "Proposed protocol only; no efficacy or causal result claimed."
    },
    {
      "priority": 7,
      "action": "Seek independent technical and tradition-specific review",
      "deliverable": "Neuroscience/electronics/physics comments and a scoped Buddhist comparison with disagreements preserved",
      "reason": "AI synthesis and agreement among project frameworks are not independent review."
    }
  ],
  "author_questions": [
    "What observation would favour QDR over ordinary cellular or network accounts, and what finding would make you abandon QDR?",
    "If the proposed ground has no felt qualities, what precise connection justifies calling it consciousness?",
    "How does an atemporal record relate to learning or accumulating new distinctions without silently reintroducing time?",
    "What physically measurable substrate property, rather than the abstract labels zero and one, excludes digital consciousness?",
    "What predicted lag range and measurement sensitivity would make a null gravitytime result disconfirming?"
  ],
  "source_navigation": [
    {
      "action": "Website navigation",
      "targets": [
        "Home",
        "Theory",
        "Research",
        "About",
        "Contact"
      ],
      "scope": "Text retrieval; no visual UX or performance audit"
    },
    {
      "action": "Direct paper access",
      "targets": [
        "QDR DOI and PhilArchive",
        "Colinear Conservation DOI and PhilPapers",
        "UAFT and BST DOI/Zenodo"
      ],
      "outcome": "Full-text retrieval blocked; indexed abstracts explicitly partial"
    },
    {
      "action": "Find in candidate",
      "terms": [
        "AWAKEN",
        "DISCERN"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "Find in primary sources",
      "terms": [
        "limitations",
        "ground potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "Find on homepage",
      "terms": [
        "Email"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "Conference follow-up",
      "targets": [
        "https://tsc2026.org/posters.html",
        "https://tsc2026.org/concurrent.html",
        "https://tsc2026.org/abstracts_html/paul-barnes.html",
        "https://tsc2026.org/program_details.html"
      ],
      "terms": [
        "Barnes"
      ],
      "outcome": "Official poster #701 and full conference abstract found; no named concurrent or detailed-programme talk found."
    }
  ],
  "method": "Manual AkashicOMNI v0.5.0 EXPAND² review; original candidate rc.4 A basis retained, publication status checked against the Public Review Specification.",
  "akashicnet_release": {
    "version": "v0.17.0",
    "name": "Evidence Intelligence Beta",
    "status": "published pre-release"
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S00",
      "title": "User-supplied screenshot",
      "url": null,
      "access": "inline_image",
      "scope": "Website URL and public profile text visually inspected; local image path reported missing. Social connections and follower counts are not evidence of theory validity.",
      "dependence": "user_input"
    },
    {
      "id": "S01",
      "title": "UAFT homepage and publication catalogue",
      "url": "https://axioconsciousness.com/",
      "access": "page_text",
      "scope": "Publication labels, dated updates, author self-description; linked full papers not implied inspected.",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S02",
      "title": "UAFT Theory",
      "url": "https://axioconsciousness.com/theory.html",
      "access": "page_text",
      "scope": "Sections 1–22, including field definition, contemplation, QDR, AI and proposed gravitytime test.",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S03",
      "title": "UAFT Research Programme",
      "url": "https://axioconsciousness.com/research.html",
      "access": "page_text",
      "scope": "Five-volume roadmap and proposed applications; published labels distinguish neither peer review nor empirical confirmation.",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S04",
      "title": "Quantum Differentiation Resonance",
      "url": "https://philarchive.org/rec/BARQDR",
      "access": "indexed_abstract",
      "scope": "Search-indexed abstract only. Direct record/PDF access failed (403).",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S05",
      "title": "Colinear Conservation",
      "url": "https://philpapers.org/rec/BARCCN",
      "access": "indexed_abstract",
      "scope": "Indexed abstract/version note only. Direct page access failed. No complete mathematical or experimental protocol audit.",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S06",
      "title": "UAFT working paper",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19433409",
      "access": "not_accessed",
      "scope": "DOI redirect and direct Zenodo record inaccessible; PhilArchive indexed metadata available but full manuscript uninspected.",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S07",
      "title": "The Binary Severance Threshold",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19432883",
      "access": "not_accessed",
      "scope": "Full manuscript inaccessible. Critique restricted to the website's presented argument.",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S08",
      "title": "Khan et al. (2024), Microtubule-Stabilizer Epothilone B Delays Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats",
      "url": "https://www.eneuro.org/content/11/8/eneuro.0291-24.2024",
      "access": "indexed_abstract",
      "scope": "Publisher/PubMed indexed results; direct publisher 403, PMC challenge, PubMed extract incomplete. Full study uninspected.",
      "dependence": "Khan_2024"
    },
    {
      "id": "S09",
      "title": "Li et al. (2025), Microtubule-modulating drugs alter sensitivity to isoflurane in mice",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-025-02956-9",
      "access": "article_text_sections",
      "scope": "Abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion and limitations inspected. Figures were not independently digitised; linked studies and raw data not audited.",
      "dependence": "Li_2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "S10",
      "title": "Texas Instruments, SN54/74HCT CMOS Logic Family Applications and Restrictions",
      "url": "https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/scla011",
      "access": "pdf_text_excerpt",
      "scope": "Input levels, transistor state, power and delay passages inspected through extracted text; figures not visually audited.",
      "dependence": "TI_electronics"
    },
    {
      "id": "S11",
      "title": "The Dalai Lama, The Heart Sutra — First Day (2021)",
      "url": "https://www.dalailama.com/news/2021/the-heart-sutra-first-day",
      "access": "indexed_passage_and_page",
      "scope": "Specific teaching on emptiness and dependence. Used for this Buddhist interpretation, not all Buddhist schools.",
      "dependence": "DalaiLama_teaching"
    },
    {
      "id": "S12",
      "title": "AkashicOMNI-v0.5.0-Candidate-Specification.md",
      "url": null,
      "access": "saved specification text",
      "scope": "Saved specification revision 14, 28 September 2026, rc.4 A; lines 1–260 and 295–439 inspected.",
      "dependence": "AkashicNET_method"
    },
    {
      "id": "S13",
      "url": "https://akashicnet.org/akashicomni/v0-5-0",
      "access": "live page and site source",
      "scope": "Current publication status, method and perspective coverage checked at publication."
    },
    {
      "id": "S14",
      "url": "https://akashicnet.org/about",
      "access": "current site source",
      "scope": "Release manifest v0.17.0; About and AkashicVISION purpose statements."
    },
    {
      "id": "S15",
      "title": "TSC2026 poster programme",
      "url": "https://tsc2026.org/posters.html",
      "scope": "Barnes poster #701; Poster Session 1, 13 October, 7:30 pm. Scheduled format only.",
      "access": "live programme text",
      "dependence": "TSC_programme"
    },
    {
      "id": "S16",
      "title": "TSC2026 concurrent presentations",
      "url": "https://tsc2026.org/concurrent.html",
      "scope": "Searched for Barnes; no matching named talk found. This does not exclude an unlisted contribution.",
      "access": "live programme text",
      "dependence": "TSC_programme"
    },
    {
      "id": "S17",
      "title": "Paul Barnes’s official QDR abstract",
      "url": "https://tsc2026.org/abstracts_html/paul-barnes.html",
      "scope": "Full conference abstract inspected. Poster designation, sustained-resonance account and proposed temporal ordering. Still part of the author’s programme, not independent validation.",
      "access": "live programme text",
      "dependence": "Barnes_UAFT"
    },
    {
      "id": "S18",
      "title": "TSC2026 detailed programme",
      "url": "https://tsc2026.org/program_details.html",
      "scope": "Searched for Barnes; no named entry found.",
      "access": "live programme text",
      "dependence": "TSC_programme"
    }
  ],
  "disclosure": "Generated with AI assistance under user editorial direction. Independent specialist review outstanding.",
  "limitations": [
    "Not a systematic literature review or exhaustive validation search",
    "No full UAFT manuscript audit",
    "No experimental data collected or reanalysed",
    "No numerical truth or quality score",
    "No exact source-body hashes; mutable locators and inspected access scopes retained"
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "revision": "1",
      "date": "2026-10-16",
      "change": "Initial user-directed website review expanded to AkashicOMNI EXPAND², spiritual-science emphasis and explicit methodology tracking."
    },
    {
      "revision": "2-publication",
      "date": "2026-10-16",
      "change": "Published full review; clarified current portal and method status; retained scientific assessment; omitted private correspondence and internal identifiers. Added official poster attribution and the abstract’s proposed ordering; delivery unverified."
    }
  ],
  "conference_status": {
    "format": "scheduled poster",
    "reference": 701,
    "session": "Poster Session 1",
    "date": "2026-10-13",
    "time": "19:30 America/Los_Angeles",
    "delivery_confirmed": false,
    "named_talk_found": false,
    "sources": [
      "S15",
      "S16",
      "S17",
      "S18"
    ]
  }
}