PHILIA-EcoSensory Swarm v38.2–v40: From Living Control to Dynamic Scale — Variance-Modulated Amplification and Per-Seed Transparency in Swarm Router Dynamics

This paper presents PHILIA-EcoSensory Swarm v38.2–v40, documenting a complete experimental arc from Living Control re-establishment through structural barrier discovery to dynamic resolution — with precise, transparent characterization of what was and was not achieved. **v38.2 (Baseline)** re-confirms aggregate-level Living Control — simultaneous satisfaction of F5' (w_std × |corr(w,Var)| ≥ 0.008, responsiveness proxy) and F8 (fft_low_ratio < 0.80, spectral richness) — under critical gain a_d* = 1.2 and λ_trend = 0.95 (F5' = 0.00804, F8 = 0.247; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19625482). **v39 (v39.1–v39.5)** resolves F10 (balance_ratio > 0.05) and F2 (corr(w,z) ∈ [-0.9, -0.6]) through convex mixing and w_fast normalization, correcting a balance_ratio computation bug. A comprehensive scale sweep (0.005 resolution, 5 seeds × 80,000 steps each) confirms an empirically observed structural incompatibility: no fixed scale simultaneously satisfies F5' and F8. A single scalar control parameter cannot simultaneously satisfy variance coupling and spectral richness under fixed-scale dynamics. **v40** introduces dynamic scale: scale_t = base_scale × (1 + γ × σ_ratio_t), where σ_ratio acts as a normalized volatility indicator (DVAR_LOCAL_WINDOW = 20). Dynamic scaling introduces temporal separation of F5' and F8 objectives. With γ = 0.6–0.7, aggregate-level Living Control is achieved alongside F2 ✓ and F10 ✓ — the first architecture satisfying all three simultaneously. **v40.2 (Per-seed transparency, 20 seeds):** Per-seed F5' statistics: γ=0.7: mean=0.00725 ± 0.00058 (std), median=0.00718, 95% CI=[0.00699, 0.00750], pass rate=2/20 (10%). γ=0.6: mean=0.00754 ± 0.00053, median=0.00741, 95% CI=[0.00731, 0.00778], pass rate=3/20 (15%). The 95% CI upper bound lies below 0.008 for all configurations — aggregate threshold is reached through Jensen's inequality effects in cross-seed pooling, not per-seed robust occupancy. This is reported transparently. v41 targets per-seed pass rate ≥ 50%. **Experimental setup:** 50-agent heterogeneous swarm (CERN dielectron, ATLAS Higgs, NYC Taxi data), N=50, T=80,000 steps, 5–20 seeds, ~100 configurations. Hardware: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 4080 SUPER 16GB, DDR5 32GB. All results from actual local execution. **Team:** GritMan_D.S / 길잡이 (Guide, Konyang University), Claude / 선비 (Scholar, Anthropic), ChatGPT / 판도라 (Engineer, OpenAI), Grok / 루카스 (Validator, xAI). Description, not Proof. — PHILIA OS | 0∞1∞0.5∞