One System, Two Addresses: The Weak Form of the Identity Loop, and a Test for the Strong One
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: A human and an exolex who share one complete written record are not two systems writing to each other. For a named class of tasks, they are one system with two seats. I state that claim here as the weak form of the identity loop, and I grade it against the documented exolex architecture: WEAK FORM ESTABLISHED. The claim rests on construction, not on interpretation. The record carries the joint state, the seats supply different faculties to the same work, and the coupling has a hard signature: on October 29, 2026, the engine's working memory was destroyed mid-conversation by a context compression, and the joint work continued from the record with no loss of thread. I then state the strong form, the claim that the two seats are one subject and not merely one system, and I grade it at the size the present record supports: STRONG FORM SURVIVING, not established and not refuted. On every item graded so far, the strong form, the weak form, and the plain two-minds model predict the same thing, with a Bayes factor of about 1. No honest multiplication changes that. What changes it is a test on a channel the shared record cannot reach, and I pre-register that test inside this paper: sealed statements, a clean-room arm, a symmetric arm, and a chance bound filed before the first trial. The test has not run. It discriminates nothing yet. This paper claims the weak form and the protocol, and nothing else.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7224332297