Autorite 2.0 — Zero Paper v0.1

Status: BASELINE CANDIDATE → freeze after review. Date: 2026-10-07.

Opening position

Autorite 2.0 begins without a theory to defend. It begins with questions whose answers are allowed to alter the architecture of the program itself. Autorite 1.x is intellectual ancestry, not epistemic authority. Unknowns are represented; negative results are retained; major claims remain attached to scope, assumptions, evidence and revision history.

Program aim

Discover which structures of change, preservation, representation and revision genuinely recur across specified domains, which remain domain-specific, and what formal or empirical consequences follow.

What changes

Models → Questions; Documents → Claims/Evidence; Equations → Declared mathematical roles; Analogies → Tested transfers; Fixed foundation → Open formal foundation; Success → Correction capacity.

We do not yet claim

No privileged ontology, universal continuation theory, universal adaptation metric, final status for DAM X/ARM/SERA/DAF, fundamental status for ARM's 81 cells, or guaranteed cross-domain unification.

Cycle 1

RP002A Predictive Sufficiency; RP003 Local–Global Preservation; RP004 Branching Lineage; RP005A Restrictive Constraints and Viable Futures. DAM X archaeology runs in parallel.

Commitment

Autorite 2.0 does not commit to preserving inherited structures. It commits to preserving the trace of why they are retained, revised, separated or abandoned.