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Title: Paper 4 preprint v1.0.0 - History-dependent functional continuity stress tests

Paper

History-Dependent Functional Continuity Under Delayed and Counterfactual Source-State Probes

Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20705654

This release packages the Paper 4 preprint and the code/results state used for the PreservationBench-AST recurrent and perturbation stress-test suite.

The paper asks whether the copied-attention condition from Paper 3 was merely a clean-episode shortcut or whether it preserves source-like history-dependent responses under delayed, counterfactual, and perturbation probes. The benchmark remains a toy functional benchmark. It is not a consciousness test, personal-identity test, survival claim, biological preservation claim, or whole-agent equivalence result.

Core Result

The copied-attention condition is evaluated against frozen random target state across thirteen 22-seed validated-source recurrent stress families and one 22-seed perturbation family.

  • recurrent warm-action improvement over frozen random ranged from 0.653 to 0.756
  • recurrent hidden-state MSE improvement ranged from 0.0961 to 0.1027
  • recurrent report-delta improvement remained positive but smaller, ranging from 0.0022 to 0.0030
  • copied attention reached 0.850 perturbed-action agreement versus 0.214 for frozen random in the perturbation layer
  • report continuity remains the fragile channel, and the copied-attention condition narrows the substrate gap by design

Included Assets

  • paper4/ryan_2026_history_dependent_functional_continuity.pdf
  • paper4/manuscript.md
  • paper4/figures/
  • paper4/tables/
  • paper4/source_contrasts/
  • paper4/protocol.md
  • experiments/preservation_bench/

Reproduction Entry Point

.venv/bin/python paper4/generate_assets.py
.venv/bin/python paper4/build_pdf.py

The full local run directories are large and are not required for the release build. The paper uses compact contrast snapshots in paper4/source_contrasts/, with original source run paths documented in paper4/protocol.md.

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

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