| # Meta research integration contract |
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| **Status:** implementation contract; not DATA and not EVID. |
| **Canonical work branch:** develop after reviewed merge. |
| **Release branch:** main remains release-only. |
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| ## Independent axes |
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| The following are intentionally not interchangeable: |
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| 1. the human-defined **11 research directions**; |
| 2. **Stage 0-10** scientific/developmental maturity; |
| 3. research axis: empirical-technical / epistemological-methodological / philosophical-ethical; |
| 4. Recursive Epistemics Edition 1.8 **Parts I-XI**; |
| 5. RQ/H/experiment/review/EVID state; |
| 6. paper/publication state. |
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| The exact 11 direction names/order are currently not recoverable from a source-bound |
| repository or prior-chat artefact. Therefore the registry locks the count and the rule |
| against mutation but deliberately leaves identities unpopulated. Automation must never |
| manufacture DIR-01..DIR-11 titles from another taxonomy. |
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| ## Scientific invariants |
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| - implementation != DATA; |
| - DATA != EVID; |
| - Human Review != independent replication; |
| - DOI != peer review; |
| - AI synthesis/critique != independent external evidence; |
| - internal replication != external independent replication; |
| - an error that motivated governance does not prove that governance works; |
| - human approval, study consent, external review and independent replication cannot be |
| generated by repository automation. |
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| ## Meta programme |
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| RQ-EPIST-002 and RQ-ETH-001 remain prospective until their human/ethics gates are |
| satisfied. RQ-META-003, -004 and -005 cover model dependence, recursive source |
| contamination and governance utility/cost. Their registered study specifications authorize |
| no execution and create no scientific EVID. |
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| ## Active digital-sense work |
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| Digital sensory integration belongs to the existing Gateway/MSBA and multimodal research |
| programme. It does not create a twelfth direction or a new Stage. Any branch cleanup must |
| first verify that unique work is present in develop; branch names alone are not evidence |
| of completion. |
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