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Research question
Are replication-like persistence and ecology metrics supported by explicit mechanisms rather than by pattern tuning alone?
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Method and experiment series
Twelve experiment groups use fixed detectors and normalization, counterfactual template interventions, resource/stress sweeps, swap tests, scaling transfer, ablation maps, and multi-strain ecology metrics.
Series: V11-E1–V11-E12
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Key results
- Template necessity is supported by a do-intervention.
- A viability band, heredity-channel disruption, selection costs, and stress robustness are separated experimentally.
- Scaling transfer holds across tested grids except for a documented pathology at N = 1024; claims are anchored to N ≥ 1536.
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What is not established
The ontology is operational and simulation-specific. It does not establish living organisms, biological heredity, cognition, or a hardware replicator; generalisation beyond the tested PDE class is not claimed.
This work is a numerical proof-of-concept. It establishes model-level behaviour under the stated assumptions and does not replace independent laboratory validation.