The Triple Root Method: A Convergence Standard for Claims That Span Measurement, Theory, and Direct Experience

Claims about consciousness sit across three kinds of evidence at once: what can be measured from outside, what can be derived from theory, and what is known from the inside. Each kind fails on its own. This paper proposes the Triple Root Method, a standard for grading such claims by how many independent kinds of evidence support them. A claim supported by one root is a hypothesis, by two is provisional, and by all three is convergent. The method's main contribution is not the count but a set of independence rules that decide when a root actually counts, together with an explicit limit: convergence grades how much a claim deserves further investment, and only a prediction registered in advance and then tested can move it further. The paper applies the method to three of the author's own hypotheses and reports the grades as they fall. None reaches convergent status in the strong form originally stated. Each has a weaker form that does, or a clear test that would decide it.