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Blocks: 14
Edges: 23
Domains: 4
Refuted kept: 1

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E1 corvid Accepted A single ~5-minute trapping event teaches wild American crows a specific threatening human face: mask-specific scolding persists at least 2.7 years and SPREADS, rising from ~26% to ~66% of crows, while a neutral-mask control stays flat. one ~5-min exposure -> scolding for >=2.7 yr; ~26% -> 30.4% -> ~66% of crows scolding; stimulus:persistence ratio ~5-6 orders of magnitude (5 min vs 2.7 yr) 3 links

E1 corvid Accepted Crows acquire dangerous-human recognition mostly by HORIZONTAL social learning: naive birds that had mobbed alongside knowledgeable birds later scolded at roughly 8x the control rate (27.8% of 54 vs 3.3% of 181). horizontal social learning ~8x: 27.8% of 54 vs 3.3% of 181 2 links

E1 corvid Accepted In crows, mobbing is a self-reinforcing recruitment LOOP: 82% of scolding events recruited a mob, averaging 6.4 birds (n=103). 82% of scolds recruit a mob; average mob 6.4 birds; n=103 4 links

E1 corvid Accepted Crow scolding of a known dangerous-human mask DOUBLED and spread at least 1.2 km over 5 years, with LINEAR (non-saturating) growth — a saturating/plateau model was statistically rejected. >=1.2 km spread over 5 yr; scolding roughly doubled; linear fit Y = 22.3 + 1.0X, p = 0.0005; plateau model rejected 4 links

E1 oral-tradition Accepted In cued recall of oral-tradition-like verse, a rhyme cue alone yields P=.19 and a meaning cue alone P=.14, but the TWO cues together yield P=.97 — the constraints combine MULTIPLICATIVELY (superadditively), far above the ~.33 an additive model predicts. rhyme alone .19; meaning alone .14; both together .97 (multiplicative, not .19+.14~.33) 1 links

E1 oral-tradition Accepted SOCIAL transmission (imitating others) homogenizes cultural material toward a shared attractor while SOLO transmission does not: in a sung-melody transmission experiment, social chains converged and solo chains did not. 3,424 melodies; 1,797 participants; social chains homogenize, solo chains do not 4 links

E2 oral-tradition Accepted Iterated serial reproduction behaves as a Markov chain whose STATIONARY distribution equals the transmitters' shared prior: chains started from 2.63, 4.19 and 5.76 cm all converged to the same value within about 20 transmissions. start points 2.63 / 4.19 / 5.76 cm -> converge within ~20 trials to one shared prior 6 links

E1 physarum Accepted In Physarum a stimulus self-propagates ADVECTIVELY on the cytoplasmic shuttle-streaming flow at 1-20 um/s, in the laminar regime (Reynolds number ~0.0008) — a fully CLASSICAL transport mechanism, no quantum effects required. self-propagation / signal speed 1-20 um/s; Reynolds number ~0.0008 (laminar) 4 links

E1 physarum Accepted In Physarum actomyosin, Ca2+ INHIBITS contraction — the opposite sign to animal striated muscle — and intracellular Ca2+ oscillates near-antiphase with tube radius. Ca2+-inhibition sign stable across ~40 years of biochemistry; Ca2+ vs tube-radius phase relation is near-antiphase 3 links

E1 physarum Accepted Physarum uses an EXTERNALIZED spatial memory — avoidance of its own extracellular slime trail — to escape a U-shaped trap: 96% of trials escaped (n=24) versus 33% when the whole arena was pre-coated with slime so the cue was uninformative. 96% escape (n=24) vs 33% on slime-pre-coated agar 2 links

E2 physarum Accepted In the only directly-testable system (Physarum), body-wide contraction FAILS to globally coordinate: coordination is intermittent and slowly-modulating — wave direction reverses and amplitude drifts — which REFUTES the global standing wave. coordination intermittent / emergent; wave direction reverses; amplitude drifts; laminar Reynolds ~0.0008 4 links

E2 physarum Accepted Physarum polycephalum encodes the location of a past nutrient stimulus in its tube-diameter hierarchy: tubes toward the food dilate and the diameter pattern persists after the stimulus itself is gone. imprint outlasts the consumed stimulus; carried by a softening agent (chemically unidentified; ATP candidate) advected on the Ca2+-driven shuttle-streaming flow 4 links

E3 physarum Refuted CLAIM (refuted): Physarum holds its body-wide memory 'aloft' via a single, globally phase-locked STANDING WAVE that keeps the imprint statically fixed. refuted 0-3 in the only directly-testable system 3 links

E2 transformer Accepted Softmax self-attention (the Transformer's core operation) is exactly ONE update step of a continuous modern Hopfield network with an exponential energy — i.e. associative-memory attractor retrieval — with pattern-storage capacity scaling ~2^(d/2) and the softmax inverse-temperature beta as the retrieval-sharpness knob. attention = 1 modern-Hopfield update; pattern-storage capacity ~2^(d/2); knob = softmax inverse-temperature beta 2 links