Standalone record of the Viridis Canon (Cognition / Intelligence-Bound self-application) — the core IB canon spine is unchanged (frozen at v9). Proves the Cognitive Throughput Theorem (CTT): an embodied cognitive system modeled as an open quantum (GKSL/Lindblad) process on a Fisher–Rao manifold, performing simultaneous Pierra–Censor–Elfving Bregman multiprojection onto sensory, model, and motor constraint sets, has a maximum certified information-acquisition rate that obeys an inverse square-root envelope dIcog/dt|max (N) = Kcog · N^ (−1/2), with throughput constant Kcog = √ (2·Wₐttn·Φₑco/ (kB T ln 2) ). The decoupled/coupled dichotomy — Φₑco = 0 ⇒ Kcog = 0 versus Φₑco > 0 ⇒ Kcog > 0 — is the cognitive face of the Intelligence Bound: cognitive throughput is gated by physical/ecological coupling, giving a thermodynamic foundation for the necessity of AI–ecology co-evolution. The 13th Intelligence-Bound self-application (the Knower). Scope. Lean 4 (Aristotle-verified, zero sorry, axioms ⊆ propext, Classical. choice, Quot. sound) certifies the structural results — the inverse-√ scaling law, the conserved throughput invariant, strict antitonicity (the attentional iris), and the decoupled/coupled coupling dichotomy — not empirical magnitudes. Working paper; not peer-reviewed.
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