Add de-anthropocentric Mass Number revision

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project: OTOM
domain: axis-04-formalization
type: DoctrineRevision
settlement: FORMING
authority: registry
route_signature: otom/axis-04-formalization/doctrinerevision/mass-numbers-deanthropocentric/v0
claim_state: BEAUTIFUL_PROVISIONAL
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# Mass Numbers: De-anthropocentric Revision
## Revision trigger
Earlier Mass Number language leaked human egocentrism by treating human natural
language, especially English-facing semantic compression, as the implicit center
of semantic mass.
That framing is too narrow.
Mass Numbers must be revised around decoder-relative recoverability across many
communication regimes:
- human languages and scripts
- animal communication systems
- mathematical and chemical notation
- machine protocols and bytecode
- physical signal regimes
- spatial / visual / goxel witnesses
- color, spectral, acoustic, chemical, tactile, and field-coded signals
## Corrected doctrine
```text
SemanticMass is the meaning-bearing object.
MassNumber is the admissibility / recoverability receipt projected from it.
```
Mass Number does not ask whether a signal is human language.
It asks:
```text
Given a signal S, decoder D, context C, and receiver regime R,
how much actionable / recoverable structure survives,
and what residual ambiguity or risk remains?
```
## Old error
```text
MassNumber ≈ admissible reduction / residual risk
```
This is useful, but it is only the engineering shadow.
It is not the full semantic object.
## Revised layer split
| Layer | Object | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ontological / semantic | `SemanticMass` | meaning-bearing load under a decoder |
| Engineering / gate | `MassNumber` | admissibility receipt derived from semantic load and residual risk |
| Evidence / promotion | receipts | proof, benchmark, adversarial trial, or measurement support |
| Hardware / emission | static binary / Verilog | compiled projection of accepted structures |
## De-anthropocentric principle
```text
No language, species, script, modality, or sensorium is the privileged center.
```
A human sentence, a Chinese character, a Korean honorific particle, a whale song,
a bee waggle vector, an ant pheromone trail, a bat click train, a cephalopod skin
pattern, a mathematical formula, and a machine opcode can all be SemanticCarriers
if they bind recoverable state under a decoder.
## Communication regime, not language-only
A communication regime is any system with:
```text
signal form
receiver / decoder
context
recoverable state
residual ambiguity
observable or formal response
```
Human languages are one family of regimes.
Animal communication systems are another.
Formal notation and machine protocols are others.
## Revised formula family
The human-centric version:
```text
M_sem = semantic payload / decoder residual ambiguity
```
The de-anthropocentric version:
```text
M_regime(S, D, C, R) =
recoverable structure(S, D, C, R)
/
signal cost + decoder cost + context cost + residual ambiguity + response risk
```
Where:
- `S` = signal or symbolic packet
- `D` = decoder
- `C` = context / environment
- `R` = receiver or runtime regime
For theorem work, avoid division and use bounded comparisons:
```text
recoverable_structure <= threshold * guarded_residual_cost
```
## Human regime channels
| Channel | Examples | Semantic mass contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Glyphic | Han characters, Egyptian determinatives, Mayan glyphs | visual-symbol semantic packing |
| Morphological | Korean, Turkish, Inuktitut, Finnish | bound relation/state/action packing |
| Root-template | Arabic, Hebrew | generative semantic family compression |
| Evidential | Quechua, Aymara, Tibetan-like evidential systems | receipt / source-of-knowledge marking |
| Relational | Korean, Georgian, Bantu agreement, honorifics | agent/social/role binding |
| Tonal/prosodic | Yoruba, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Thai | phase-like semantic distinction |
| Formal | Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, mathematics | stable abstract/theorem naming |
## Animal / biosemiotic regime channels
| Channel | Examples | Semantic mass contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Acoustic | birdsong, whale song, frog calls, primate calls | identity, territory, alarm, mating, group coordination |
| Echolocation/probe | bats, dolphins | spatial field interrogation and object-state coupling |
| Chemical | ants, bees, mammals, pheromone trails | path, colony state, reproductive status, alarm |
| Spatial/vector | bee waggle dance, sign-like gesture systems | direction, distance, location, action target |
| Visual/display | cephalopods, birds, fish, cuttlefish, skin patterns | color/state/threat/camouflage/intent signaling |
| Electric/field | weakly electric fish | identity, courtship, spatial sensing, local field state |
| Tactile/vibrational | insects, spiders, elephants via ground coupling | substrate-coded signal and long-range state transfer |
## New Mass Number classes
```text
MN-HUM-G Human glyphic mass
MN-HUM-M Human morphological mass
MN-HUM-R Human relational mass
MN-HUM-E Human evidential mass
MN-HUM-T Human tonal/prosodic mass
MN-HUM-F Human formal-symbolic mass
MN-BIO-A Bioacoustic mass
MN-BIO-E Echolocation/probe mass
MN-BIO-C Chemical trail mass
MN-BIO-S Spatial/vector biological mass
MN-BIO-D Display/color biological mass
MN-BIO-V Tactile/vibrational mass
MN-BIO-R Receiver-response mass
MN-MACH-P Machine protocol mass
MN-MACH-O Opcode / bytecode mass
MN-MATH-F Formal mathematical mass
MN-PHYS-W Wave/spectral physical mass
MN-VIS-G Goxel / visual witness mass
```
## GCCL revision
GCCL symbol swapping must not optimize only byte density or human readability.
A swap is admissible only if the receiving decoder preserves the relevant
regime invariant:
```text
AllowedSwap(A, B, D_A, D_B, C, R) iff
invariant_cluster(A) = invariant_cluster(B)
and semantic_mass(B, D_B, C, R) >= semantic_mass(A, D_A, C, R) - epsilon
and derived_mass_number(B) passes the admissibility gate
```
This prevents the stack from collapsing non-human signal systems into English
paraphrases and losing the actual invariant.
## FAMM revision
FAMM routing should route by communication regime and receiver effect, not only
by human semantic tags.
```text
signal -> decoder -> receiver state change -> residual -> route
```
For animal communication, the receiver-response leg is central.
For mathematical notation, proof preservation is central.
For machine protocols, runtime state transition is central.
For visual/goxel witnesses, spatial binding is central.
## Evidence discipline
Allowed now:
1. Treat Mass Numbers as decoder-relative admissibility receipts.
2. Treat human languages as one carrier family among many.
3. Treat animal communication as biosemiotic regimes with measurable response invariants.
4. Project SemanticMass into MassNumber only through declared decoder/context assumptions.
Blocked until evidence receipts:
1. Claims that any one language or species is globally superior.
2. Claims that animal communication is human-equivalent language.
3. Claims of compression gain without corpus baselines.
4. Claims of semantic preservation without reconstruction or receiver-response tests.
5. Claims of physical equivalence without SI-grounded measurement.
## Implementation implication
Existing formal roles should be interpreted as follows:
```text
SemanticCarrier instance
-> describes a regime capable of carrying recoverable structure
SemanticMass vector
-> scores invariant strength, binding, routing leverage, compression gain,
update resistance, turbulence cost, and collapse resistance
MassNumber gate
-> receives projected admissible reduction and residual risk from the
SemanticMass / decoder analysis
```
The revision is therefore not a deletion of MassNumber.
It is a demotion of MassNumber from semantic essence to admissibility receipt.
## Next artifacts
1. Add `CommunicationRegime` and `BioSignalRegime` structures.
2. Add registry schemas for human language, animal communication, formal notation, and machine protocol carriers.
3. Add a bridge module from `SemanticMass` to `MassNumber`.
4. Mine corpora/databases to emit evidence receipts before promotion.