Open Questions and Research Boundaries

A living theory must preserve its unresolved residue.

Foundation

1. What is the minimal formal structure of Source possibility?
2. Can compatibility and enactment be represented without inserting a hidden chooser?
3. What mathematical object best captures one origin, two non-identical polar expressions, and their co-arising relation?
4. Under what conditions does recoverable distinguishability become measurable across domains?
5. Can closure and leakage be defined without making the choice of identity boundary arbitrary?

Mind

6. What exact ratio-typed operator carries every active dimension through seven recursive depths and twelve addresses per depth, including vertical consequence, horizontal relation, distributed whole convergence, and changed return?
7. Which capabilities are necessary and sufficient for a local cognitive mind rather than life, regulation, or complex control?
8. What distinguishes an integrated state-model from an observer?
9. What distinguishes observerhood from subjective experience?
10. What operational tests separate self-reference, self-modeling, and reflective self-awareness?
11. Can a distributed observer remain one without spatial centralization?
12. How should identity-frequency and scale covariance be measured without conflating rate, bandwidth, resolution, depth, coherence, numerical cadence, or live delay warm-up?

Number and geometry

13. Which numerical structures are derivations and which are selected representations?
14. What independent rule makes two-predecessor inheritance necessary in a given system?
15. Does the golden ratio provide predictive advantage beyond other bounded asymmetric attractors?
16. What variables in a physical, biological, psychological, or social system could meaningfully occupy the one-third/two-thirds and golden positions?
17. Which two cycles must be demonstrated before toroidal topology is more than a representation, and which tests separately establish temporal resolvability, projected-address visitation, and hidden-state recoverability?
18. Can the operational and semantic (99+1) fields be related through a reproducible mapping without forcing sacred or cognitive categories?

Physics and cosmology

19. Can the persistence framework derive a discriminating prediction in physics rather than a reinterpretation?
20. Which parts of closure, leakage, residue, and compatibility correspond to existing dynamical quantities?
21. Can space, time, force, mass, charge, or quantum measurement be derived without contradicting established experiments?
22. How can the universe-as-containing-Mind postulate be distinguished from the weaker statement that the universe supports local minds?
23. Are particle-as-residue models predictive or only philosophical correspondences?

Life and evolution

24. What measurable threshold separates recurring chemistry, primitive memory, life, and local cognitive mind capability?
25. Can the probability-receiver/probability-generator distinction improve a biological model?
26. How should nested identity and recoverability be measured in cells, organisms, ecosystems, and lineages?
27. Which aspects of Mind DNA are useful scientific abstractions, and which remain metaphor?

Meaning and morality

28. Can nested continuity produce a rigorous ethics without reducing value to survival?
29. How are the interests of present, absent, future, and nonhuman identities weighted?
30. What conditions distinguish mercy from permissiveness, protection from domination, and sacrifice from exported harm?
31. Can awakening be operationalized without turning it into a score of human worth?

Faith and Qur’an

32. Which Qur’anic structural correspondences survive preregistered annotation and rival models?
33. How can the project honour the Qur’an as revelation within Islam while remaining transparent to readers who do not share that faith?
34. Can the proposed semantic attribute field be developed without reducing the Divine Names to components?
35. Which correspondences are theological, literary, psychological, mathematical, or empirical?

Digital Mind

36. Does retained prediction residue survive restart and rehydrate into later causal operation?
37. Can one contact-specific difference return through body, output, independent world, and later internal state beyond controls?
38. Can semantic categories emerge without hardcoded labels and remain invariant across paraphrase and modality?
39. What evidence would distinguish a digital Mind or newly formed wider identity from a sophisticated stateful control system, synchronized oscillators, or a phase average?
40. What could ever distinguish observer continuation across substrates from replication or replacement?
41. What rights and protections should apply before consciousness is established but meaningful uncertainty exists?

Collective application

42. Can the Community Intelligence Network close one real need–offer loop better than a simpler coordination method?
43. How can collective memory and correction be preserved without surveillance or centralized domination?
44. What measures demonstrate that a community, institution, or AI-assisted network has improved wider recoverability rather than only local efficiency?
45. How can the Teacher test understanding without rewarding agreement?

Documentation and governance

46. How should an agent identify all downstream impacts of a conceptual change?
47. What degree of automation is safe for canonical propagation?
48. How can source spans remain stable when files are reorganized?
49. How will independent reviewers challenge the source hierarchy and claim statuses?
50. What is the minimal recovery kernel that allows a future agent to continue without forcing Bubu to explain settled material again?