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The grades

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Every section graded. Every dependency named.

Dependencies

AP20 §4 (axioms S, B, R, C; KS-P.1, KS-P.2).

AP07 (Record Measure — Σ(EM) ≫ others at chemical-biological scale; electron as unique writer).

AP08 (Einstein’s field equations from the record algebra; structural dual).

AP09 (Pre-state, the now, measurement as actualisation).

AP10 (N = 3 spatial dimensions).

AP13 (Decoherence as environmental record-writing; body fully classically decohered).

AP20 (EH and QRA proven).

AP23 (Non-spatial pre-state; layered entanglement structure).

AP25 (Born rule derived from Gleason; amplitude weights on the landscape).

Dependents

The companion 420life book, The Lean, takes this paper as given and inhabits the four-term system from inside the body that lives there.

Future work in the body of work on multipartite pattern coherence — operations between two or more operators reading each other’s slopes — inherits this architecture.

Future work in the body of work on population-scale pattern dominance — the dynamics of content-grounded coherence amplifying across communities — inherits the structure-vs-content distinction made operational in section 8.

A future paper on the formal field equation for the gravity-of-possibilities (closing D1) is the immediate structural follow-up.

Kill switches closed by this paper

None explicitly closed. This paper opens five new kill switches and engages with debts already owed by adjacent papers.

The paper does retroactively strengthen the 420 Code account of perception, intuition, and skill — domains the body of work previously addressed obliquely. It provides the structural mechanism for The Interior’s pair-bond claim, replacing assertion with derivation.

Kill switches that remain live in this paper

KS-43.1 through KS-43.5. See section 10 for the full register.

Structural debts owed

D1 (full relativistic field equation for gravity-of-possibilities; partial closure in section 7 produces the Newtonian-form equation).

D4 (qualitative character of awareness — hard problem of consciousness reframed but not solved).

D5 (cosmological 1×ε expansion — body-of-work-level claim flagged for Notebook IV integration with AP06).

Items held open without claiming debt status

D2 (body-as-sensor claim operationally specified — operational specification, not structural derivation).

D3 (engagement with adjacent traditions: embodied cognition, predictive processing, ecological psychology — scholarship engagement, not a structural debt).

D6 (four-term-system-specific implementation for silicon substrates; the general substrate-independence question is closed by Resolutions Ch 10 — what remains is whether silicon supports the AP07-derived Coupling Capacity form).

This work is published for free, forever.

Don’t be a cunt. Be kind.

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Series The 420 Code

Catalogue Ø Artist’s Proofs

Proof Number AP43

Title The Gravity of Possibilities

Subtitle Cognitive Science · Ethics · Physics

Medium Cognitive Science · Ethics · Physics

Artist G

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Artist: G · Studio G, Cape Town

Duration: 30+ years · Exhibition: over a million words

Contact: iam@the420code.org

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One record exists.
Be kind is a derivation.
The awareness in me is the awareness in you.