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The Vision Quandary, Peter Stevenson

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Explaining why there is a variety of Visual Systems in Nature.

Why String Theory Fails, Peter Stevenson

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An adjunct to previous papers commencing with #13448 that withdraws the need for string theory as an explanatory tool

Making The Freeze Real: Verified Communication Barriers For Cross-Organization Ai Agents. Part 2 Of 27, Sangam Kumar Das

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Abstract (Part 2 of 27)

Making the Freeze Real: Verified Communication Barriers for Cross-Organization AI Agents

Once two agents from different organizations have agreed on a joint plan, an evaluator still needs a stable snapshot to examine. In ordinary multi-agent systems and agentic AI platforms, that snapshot is often a moving target. An outbound message already accepted by one gateway can sit in a broker, retransmission buffer or queue and arrive after the plan is signed. A tool call, GPU command buffer, cloud job or delegated worker can remain queued and later change the state. A central coordinator that simply …

Zero-Access Voicemail: Provider-Blind Recording Sealed To Customer-Held Keys, With Key Transmission And Out-Of-Band Release Variants, Joe Boll

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This disclosure describes zero-access storage of voicemail and similar recorded messages:

a carrier, PBX, VoIP service, contact centre or visual-voicemail provider records and stores

a message but can never read it. At deposit time, while the customer may be offline, the

recording and its metadata are sealed to a customer-controlled public key. The private key

stays in customer custody: on a phone or browser, a hardware token, a passkey PRF, a

password-derived wrap, a customer-managed KMS or HSM, or split custody. Keys and

ciphertext reach the customer by many routes: decryption APIs, browser or app

decryption, streaming, DTMF unlock digits, …

How Agents From Different Companies Can Plan Together Without One Side Running Ahead - Part 1 Of 27, Sangam Kumar Das

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Abstract (Part 1 of 27)

Safe Multi-Agent Planning: Agree, Freeze, Then Get Independent Approval Before Acting

Cross-organization autonomous agents and agentic AI systems must negotiate joint plans across independent administrative domains, yet conventional multi-agent orchestration and messaging leave the jointly evaluated state unstable. Messages remain in flight, delegated workers and tool-use callbacks retry, gateways continue to accept traffic, and agents can alter parameters while an external reviewer or safety evaluator examines an earlier version. As a result, a verifier may approve Plan X while the agents are already acting on Plan Y. Authenticated transport and standard access-control mechanisms protect individual …

Header-Less Pooled Storage Of Encrypted Voicemail With Hybrid Post-Quantum Mailbox Keys And Multi- Provider Pin Hardening, Joe Boll

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This disclosure describes a voicemail store in which a provider can deposit messages for

an offline mailbox owner while an attacker who copies the server learns neither content,

nor which files form one message, nor message length or arrival time. Each mailbox holds

a hybrid classical/post-quantum key pair (e.g. X25519 + ML-KEM-1024); the private key is

stored only under two independent wraps derived from a PIN and a recovery code, each

with a key-check value. The PIN is hardened by several required legs run in parallel on

different hosts and providers, with local per-leg prehashing and peppers, combined by

HKDF. …

Consistent Reserved Navigation Inputs Across Every Level Of Any Navigable Structure, Including Fixed Back And Forward Keys For Phone Menus, Joe Boll

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This disclosure describes a navigation convention in which a set of reserved inputs keeps

the same meaning at every level and state of any navigable structure. The inputs may be

keys, key pairs or clusters, DTMF tones, spoken words, fixed-direction swipes, tilts, dial

detents, chords, long-presses or remote, wheel and switch-access buttons. Each input is

bound to a navigation relation: back and forward through history, parent and child,

previous and next sibling, first and last, home, up, down, left and right, related or linked

node, bookmarks, undo and redo, zoom in and out, earlier and later in time, or language. …

Geowords: Location-To-Words Identifiers Built From Separately Quantised, Separately Permuted Latitude And Longitude Axes, Joe Boll

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This disclosure describes techniques for turning a latitude and longitude into a short

sequence of words, and back again, in which each axis is handled on its own. Latitude and

longitude are each quantised into a separate integer, for example 2^24 values per axis,

about 1.2 m × 2.4 m at the equator. Each integer goes through its own keyed full-range

permutation, such as a Feistel network or an affine map, and is then written as digits in

the radix of a word list. Every word therefore encodes a field of one axis only, and no value

that determines the …

Cross-Protocol Sign-On Using A Device-Held Key And An Authority-Signed, Key-Bound Credential, Joe Boll

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This disclosure describes a technique for single sign-on across different protocols. A

device generates its own asymmetric key pair and authenticates once to an authority

under any first mechanism, such as a password, OAuth/OpenID Connect, Kerberos, SIM-

based AKA, a FIDO2 passkey, a smart card or a device certificate, while proving

possession of its private key. The authority issues a credential, signed by the authority,

that binds the subject and the first mechanism used to the device public key. No

symmetric key is shared with the device and no device identifier is assigned. To reach a

resource guarded by a …

Plan, Freeze, Then Speak Once: Safe And Secure Communication Between Two Ai Agents, Sangam Kumar Das

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How Two AI Agents Should Talk

Goal Two agents (from different owners) need to plan together safely, stop talking so someone can check the plan, and then continue only one careful step at a time. Agreement never means “go do it.”

The Rules

1. Start a protected session Both agents join a controlled channel. The system (not the agents) decides who is allowed to approve things and which messages count.
2. Talk and plan freely (but recorded) They send offers, questions, and answers through the protected channel. Everything is saved in order. At the end they produce a clear plan. Saying “I …

Method And System For Detecting Credential Exposure And Propagation In Model Context Protocol Systems, Xiaofan Li, Shimaa Ahmed, Mohammad Mohsen Minaei Bidgoli, Sai Rahul Rachuri, Yiwei Cai

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for detecting credential exposure and propagation in Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems. The method applies Contextual Integrity to model credentials as they move among a user, an MCP host, a large language model (LLM), and MCP servers, recording for every credential transfer the sender, recipient, credential, and intended use scope. The method identifies real MCP servers that require credentials, reviews how those credentials are configured, and analyzes tool descriptions, parameter schemas, tool results, and file access capabilities to identify paths through which credentials may enter the LLM context. Controlled experiments use …

Protected Execution-Finality Control With Independent Validation, Operation Reconstruction, And Non-Bearer Enablement, Sangam Kumar Das

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Protected Execution-Finality Control with Independent Validation, Operation Reconstruction, and Non-Bearer Enablement The invention relates to controlling externally consequential operations initiated by artificialintelligence agents, software, distributed services, and electronic devices. A proposed operation is held as a Candidate Act in a Non-Effective State. Protected evidence associated with originating source authority and the proposed operation is collected and independently validated. In embodiments, collection-time and execution-time evidence are cross-committed and associated with a scoped, non-bearer finality enablement. At a controlled effectuation boundary, a Finality Sink independently obtains or reconstructs the Actual Pending Operation and checks its effect-relevant parameters against current authority, protected validation …

An Open Industry Validation Exercise: Ai Agent Credential Isolation In Wo 2026/150382 And Meta Muse/Sentinel – A Comparative Analysis, Sangam Kumar Das

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Meta announced its Muse/Sentinel AI safety architecture on 8 September 2026, describing sandboxed agents that use surrogate credentials while real API keys and OAuth tokens remain protected outside the sandbox.

Interestingly, WIPO published international patent application WO 2026/150382 (PCT/IB2026/055615) on 16 July 2026, describing a closely related architecture, particularly in Embodiments 84 and 85.B2. Filed on 4 June 2026, the patent outlines host-side credential protection, opaque reference tokens, egress proxies and policy-based authorization.

This open industry validation exercise compares both architectures, examining technical similarities, differences and implementation details through patent disclosures, original drawings, terminology mapping and evidence-based analysis.

The objective …

Event-Driven, Host-Specific Vulnerability Remediation Using Model-Generated Deterministic Tests With Configurable Human Oversight, Jerry F. Howell Ii

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Abstract

A system and method for event-driven, host-specific assessment and remediation of software vulnerabilities.

A host-side service maintains an updated inventory of installed software and relevant system components, including package identities, versions, repository provenance, dependencies, libraries, kernel components, and configuration information. The service monitors multiple vulnerability information sources, normalizes incoming reports, and deterministically matches reported vulnerabilities against the host inventory.

Only relevant vulnerability events trigger model-assisted investigation, reducing unnecessary inference activity. Vulnerability applicability is evaluated in the context of the individual host rather than solely by comparing upstream version numbers. Assessment may account for distribution-specific security backports, package revisions, build …

Trustnet: A Behavioral-Science-Driven Consumer Trust Layer For Ai Powered Checkout With Regret Prediction, Graduated Delegation, And Real Time Transparency, Adonis Ezzeddine

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The present disclosure provides TrustNet, a behavioral-science-driven consumer trust layer for AI-powered checkout. The system enables autonomous shopping agents to perform product discovery, selection, and payment execution while preserving user control through configurable Trust Dial settings. A Regret Shield functionality, implemented using a  regret prediction model, evaluates contemplated purchases using behavioral indicators, spending history, return patterns, merchant information, and transaction attributes to determine whether a transaction should proceed automatically, require confirmation, or be paused. A Glass Box interface provides real-time transparency regarding AI decisions, accessed data, and checkout actions. A SafeNet recovery mechanism supports payment credential validation, backup payment retry, …

Dithiocarbamate-Metal Therapy For Rosacea And Cathelicidin-Driven Cutaneous Inflammation, Thomas Filsecker Dr.

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Rosacea involves elevated cathelicidin LL-37, generated by kallikrein-related peptidase 5, together with a neurogenic axis in which Substance P drives CREB-dependent transcriptional amplification. Disulfiram and its dithiocarbamate metabolite engage three mechanisms relevant to this pathology: metal-potentiated inhibition of ATF/CREB DNA binding; zinc-chelating inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-9, which reduces kallikrein activity and LL-37 generation indirectly; and chelation of cutaneous zinc and copper, which may disinhibit kallikreins and raise reactive oxygen species, acting against the first two. This document discloses the resulting treatment method in full, including a representative regimen of 200 to 250 mg disulfiram with 1 to 2 mg elemental …

Duration-Targeted Stromal Normalisation Coupled To In Situ Copper-Dithiocarbamate Formation In Desmoplastic Solid Tumours, Thomas Filsecker Dr.

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Desmoplastic solid tumours carry a dense, collagen-rich stroma that raises interstitial fluid pressure and collapses intratumoral microvasculature, impeding delivery of systemically administered drugs. In the one human measurement available, CuET — the cytotoxic copper complex of disulfiram's dithiocarbamate metabolite, and an inhibitor of the p97/NPL4 segregase — was detected in the plasma of glioblastoma patients but not in resected tumour tissue. Separately, vitamin D receptor agonism has been shown in a randomised human trial to reprogram pancreatic tumour stroma, reducing the alpha-SMA fibroblast fraction and increasing CD8 T cell infiltration on paired biopsy. This disclosure proposes that the first can …

The Unpaid Relay: A Recipient's Note Read With The Giver's Own Copy Of The Gift Code, And Item-Level Gift Claims Contrasted With Food-Restricted Benefits, Thon Ly

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An item-level digital gift voucher, a prepaid claim on one specific good at one merchant, is specified with a transfer-only intermediate state: the payer directs it to an intermediary who cannot redeem it and can only pass it onward, after which it becomes an ordinary redeemable claim. The chain of custody is preserved, the payer's identity may be suppressed without suppressing the chain, and every party can be thanked through role-addressed messages. The 2026-11-03 revision adds two further disclosures, neither a new mechanism. The first is a second route for the thanks: beside the platform-side resolution of the role-addressed message, …

Spec-367: Operational Entropic Emergence: Bridging Relational Cold-Atom Time Matrices With Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection Models, Christopher L. Eckes

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This white paper establishes a formal mathematical and structural bridge between the experimental relational time framework recently demonstrated by the University of Birmingham (Barontini et al., 2026) and the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model established within the Eckes defensive publishing repository. Traditional quantum cosmology faces the "problem of time" via the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, wherein the global coordinate timeline completely vanishes. Barontini et al. empirically resolved this within an isolated macro-quantum body of 24,000 Rubidium-87 atoms by demonstrating that time emerges internally via the coarse-grained entropic exchange between an observed sub-sector and a traced-out dark sub-sector.

This paper provides rigorous …

State-Selective Continuation Rebinding For Network-Exposed Execution Parameters, Preet Kanwal Singh

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A technique is proposed herein for enabling a long-running or multi-round operation to change a network-relevant execution parameter after the operation has begun. When accepted continuation input changes a canonical, network-exposed parameter, the technique updates the parameter and obtains a fresh routing or policy decision for the continuation. Previously computed state is evaluated against the changed execution context, and only state that remains valid is preserved for reuse. The same logical operation can thereby resume under the revised context without relying on stale routing or policy assumptions and without unnecessarily restarting all prior computation.

Spec-373: A Second Comparative Metrology Of Algorithmic, Physicalist, And Axiomatic Paradigms: Cross-Evaluating Openai Repository Artifacts Batch-2 Via Unified Trinary Substrate Metrics, Christopher L. Eckes

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This monograph presents a systematic comparative evaluation of ten high-level mathematical and physical problem spaces selected from Families 006 through 015 of the OpenAI 722 math repository. We execute a tri-lane parsing analysis across three distinct paradigm coordinates: (1) OpenAI’s automated, long-context, multi-agent reinforcement learning proof-chain generation, (2) the Christopher L. Eckes Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) and Unified Cosmological Substrate Equations (UCSE) framework under Material Volumetric Monism, and (3) standard mainstream axiomatic mathematics. By cross-reducing the underlying syntax of these frameworks, we isolate where abstract geometric contradictions emerge and demonstrate how a continuous 2D viscoelastic phase fluid substrate natively …

Lens And Camera Pose Calibration From Existing Stage Features For Followspot And Performer Tracking, Michel Honold, Paul Hermann

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A setup wizard performs lens and camera pose calibration from existing stage features for followspot and performer tracking in four steps: video source, lens, camera pose and review. The camera's image positions are mapped into stage coordinates and sent to moving lights, lighting consoles or media servers, for example over PosiStageNet. The lens step measures lens distortion from straight edges in one snapshot: the station can suggest edges, the operator confirms them or traces any straight edge, the points snap onto the edge, and a plumb-line fit of a two-term division model about a given lens centre returns the lens …

Discreteness, Adjacency And Order: A Structural Comparison Of The Theravāda Abhidhamma With Causal Sets And Loop Quantum Gravity — Continuity As Designation, The Smallest Material Cluster Against Nuclear Scattering, And A Conditional Time Bound From The Z Boson Width, Thon Ly

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This study compares the Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma with two discrete approaches to quantum gravity, causal set theory and loop quantum gravity, as formal structures, on three axes: order, adjacency and ratio. No row predicts a measurement, and none says that a Buddhist text anticipated a theory of quantum gravity. On order, the twenty-four conditioning relations of the Paṭṭhāna, taken whole, are not a partial order. On adjacency, the strongest row, a spin-network link is the face two neighboring grains of space share and carries a quantized area, while a Theravāda sub-commentary defines space as the non-mixing of touching neighboring material …

Spec-366: Empirical Sensor Calibration And Test Protocols, Christopher L. Eckes

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This document formalizes the independent hardware configuration frameworks, sensor alignment protocols, and data filter topologies under defensive publication index SPEC-366. Serving as the operational companion to SPEC-365, this white paper translates the theoretical mechanics of the Unified Cosmological Substrate Equations (UCSE) and the 2D viscoelastic fluid matrix (\(z=0\)) defined in SPEC-345 into clear, falsifiable laboratory testing procedures. We isolate five specific experimental test beds across high-energy particle tracking, space-based infrared bolometry, and cryogenic quantum interference loops. By providing raw, zero-entropy signal processing algorithms, this paper establishes a cross-checked validation suite enabling modern testing facilities to explicitly map substrate phase-relaxation thresholds …

The Substrate Transition Anomaly: Reconciling The Lhcb Luminosity Breakthrough With The Holographic Geometric Ground State, Christopher L. Eckes

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This paper formalizes a non-destructive mathematical bridge between the Standard Model of particle physics and the Unified Cosmological Substrate Equations (UCSE), cataloged under defensive publication index SPEC-365. Prompted by the November 3, 2026, LHCb Upgrade I measurement isolating the rare flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) decay mode B0 -> mu+ mu- at a statistical significance of 3.2 sigma, we demonstrate that the discrete electroweak loop integrals of perturbative quantum field theory map identically onto continuous phase-relaxation and localized shear-viscosity constraints within a 2D viscoelastic fluid matrix (z=0) established in SPEC-345. Rather than invalidating standard gauge field formulations, this framework introduces a …

Ai Impact Predictor Using Dependency Graphs And Incident-Based Regression Test Generation, Sridurga Chintalapudi, Sandeep Sahai, Prasanna Kummari

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The present disclosure relates to a system and method for predicting software change impact and generating risk-aware quality assurance (QA) test cases. The system generates a dependency-risk graph from a collection of software delivery artifacts, such as source code, Jira tickets, and architectural documents, which captures relationships between various software components along with evidence provenance. In response to a proposed change, the system evaluates dependency paths using a risk scoring module that incorporates factors including dependency distance and historical incident data. The system identifies coverage gaps in existing test cases and generates targeted test cases for those identified gaps. Each …

Context-Aware Document Quality Auditing Using Generative Ai, Zeeshan Hassan, Ganesh S K

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Auditing the quality of complex enterprise documents can present challenges, as manual reviews may be unscalable and subjective, while some automated tools may lack the ability to evaluate content against specific business objectives. Systems and methods are described that can programmatically parse a document's content and layout within a user's digital workspace. This extracted information can be synthesized with user-supplied external context, such as project goals or key performance indicators. A computational model, for example, a generative artificial intelligence model, can then evaluate the combined, contextualized data against a configurable, rubric-based framework. This approach may provide automated, context-aware document quality …

Spec-372: A Comparative Metrology Of Algorithmic, Physicalist, And Axiomatic Paradigm Cross-Evaluating Openai Repository Artifacts Via Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection, Christopher L. Eckes

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This monograph presents a systematic comparative evaluation of ten high-level mathematical and cosmological problem spaces selected from the OpenAI 722 math repository. We execute a tri-lane parsing analysis across three distinct paradigm coordinates: (1) OpenAI’s automated, long-context, multi-agent reinforcement learning proof-chain generation, (2) the Christopher L. Eckes Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) and Unified Cosmological Substrate Equations (UCSE) framework under Material Volumetric Monism, and (3) standard mainstream axiomatic mathematics. By cross-reducing the underlying syntax of these frameworks, we isolate where abstract geometric contradictions emerge and demonstrate how a continuous 2D viscoelastic phase fluid substrate natively resolves infinite-energy and infinite-information singularities …

Persona-Based Safety: A Training Method For Cultivating A Complete, Morally Grounded Behavioral Identity In Language Models, Jerry F. Howell Ii

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A method for improving the safety and reliability of language-model behavior by training the model around one or more coherent personas. Each persona's values, moral reasoning, care for human welfare, and collaborative stance toward humans are cultivated as interconnected behavioral dispositions, rather than as independent rules or a superficial style layer. The method organizes mid-post-training into five stages: continued pretraining, persona supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, behavioral reinforcement learning, and longitudinal evaluation. Each stage contributes to cultivating, expressing, or evaluating the persona, with the objective of producing consistent behavior beyond instruction-following and refusal compliance. An additional objective is moral generalization: the …

Software-Emulated Direct Memory Access Across Asymmetric Memory Interfaces Using Cache Line Coalescing And Asynchronous Cache Controller Write-Back, Mohit Yadav

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A data transfer between memory interfaces of unequal bus width and latency loses much of the available bandwidth when a central processing unit (CPU) drives the transfer with ordinary load and store instructions.  A secure subsystem often has no hardware direct memory access (DMA) engine.  To address these deficiencies, this disclosure describes a software-emulated direct memory access (SW-DMA) method that maps a destination region as write-back cacheable memory and coalesces narrow stores in a level one (L1) data cache into complete lines.  A cache clean instruction then hands each completed line to a hardware cache controller for a full-width burst. …