Blackhole Law

Detect signal that has lost sufficient lineage, coherence, or distinguishability to be treated as valid continuation. When signal has degraded beyond a threshold, it should be collapsed (treated as noise, not as valid continuation).

A signal with a lineage chain. Measurements of lineage, coherence, and distinguishability.

Lineage loss, coherence loss, distinguishability from noise.

Signal that has lost sufficient lineage, coherence, or distinguishability should be collapsed — treated as noise rather than valid continuation. There exists a threshold beyond which signal is no longer valid.

Measure lineage, coherence, and distinguishability at each transformation step. Identify the threshold beyond which signal should be collapsed.

Lineage chain length, coherence values, distinguishability metrics.

No threshold exists (signal never loses enough lineage or coherence to be invalid), OR the threshold is arbitrary (no principled collapse criterion).

No formal experiments yet. Proposed concept.

The most important open problem is: similarity does not automatically imply invalid duplication. Two signals may be similar because they independently reached the same conclusion (convergence), not because one copied the other (mimicry). The Convergence vs Mimicry Test must distinguish these:

same or similar output → shared lineage? → YES (possible copying or inheritance) / NO → independent reasoning path? → YES (legitimate convergence).

Commitment Theory, MO§ES™ architecture, proposed research program. Architecture: mos2es.com/concepts/conservation-law.