Editorial framing for the revision The revised structure below assumes a narrower and more defensible posture than the March 2026 draft. The relational-structural core is retained as the framework’s strongest current achievement: minimal distinction, ordered dependency, persistence, thermodynamic cost, and bounded traversal remain the conceptual spine of the programme. The gravity and cosmology extension is retained, but it is explicitly recast as programmatic rather than completed. The key change is this: Part VIII should no longer read as if gravity has already been explained. Instead, it should argue that if the framework is correct, the gravitational constant should eventually become intelligible as a structural residue of cross-scale constraints rather than as a brute external input. Part IX should then identify the early plasma epoch as the first large-scale thermodynamic regime in which propagated distinction might become dynamically consequential enough to seed later structure, without claiming that quantum gravity or cosmogenesis has already been derived. This revision also aligns the papers with the current MRU record. The toy-universe programme has operationalized emergence, ordered dependency, traversal, replication, regulation, and early prediction in a relational substrate, but it has not yet derived physics or cosmology from first principles. The papers should therefore distinguish clearly between operational support for the framework’s core and open status for the gravity/cosmology branch. Zip file includes all code and testing results. DISCLAIMER I was not aware that I had to disclose whether I used AI as a resource. With that being said: Generative AI was used to assist with literature screening / coding support / draft language revision. All AI-assisted outputs were independently checked by the author, and the author takes full responsibility for the final analysis and text. This is encompassing all the work that has been done and will be done.
Malin Hess (2026) studied this question.