From Distinction to Information: An Exact, Parameter-Free and Machine-Closed Derivation of Information Science from Smithian Fold Theory

Information Science Branch Paper 001, version 1.4.0. This same-paper successor completes 262 of 262 current registered obligations: 75,776 generated candidates, 262 unique survivors, 1,048 passed controls, 262 independent reconstructions and 250 post-registry empirical packages. The branch is complete to its dated current census and remains open to lawful extension. The release preserves adverse, unresolved, transport and chronology records and does not treat compatibility, implementation success or correspondence as empirical confirmation.