This deposit is the main Phase-2 package of Bit-Collapse Theory (BCT): an informational / operational interpretation of quantum measurement in which “collapse” is treated as an update of an agent-relative informational equivalence class tied to accessibility and stable records. Core idea (minimal, load-bearing) BCT starts from a blunt premise: identical informational structures yield identical conscious experiences, regardless of physical substrate. As long as two realizations remain informationally identical at the level that matters for accessibility and record-support, they correspond to the same subjective state. A split occurs when an informational update introduces a minimal effective divergence in the relevant record / which-way channel, together with sufficient persistence / retention for that divergence to count as event-like. That divergence defines distinct subjective histories. Scope (what this release is / is not) No new non-unitary dynamics is introduced here. Standard unitary evolution is not modified. “Collapse” is used in an informational / equivalence-class sense, not as a new physical force, field, or constant. The aim of Phase 2 is to provide canonical definitions, a consistent notation layer, a non-elastic observer-definiteness rule, and operational refutation targets. What this Phase-2 package contains - Manifesto + canonical glossary (definitions, scope boundaries, notation discipline).- A flagship Phase-2 paper centered on Axiom 0 and the retention-threshold falsification program.- A short Born-rule route within the BCT framing under explicit operational assumptions (Gleason-style constraints, with the qubit caveat handled at the record-projector level).- A focused BCT vs MWI comparison (ontology, definiteness, and measurement narrative).- Objections collapse; information; records; decoherence; Many-Worlds; Born rule; falsifiability; consciousness; operational definitions; observer-definiteness; informational identity.
Federico Batori (Mon,) studied this question.