The Papers

Fifteen papers working out the entity system, from the six primitives to the deployed landscape. Paper 0 is the root the rest build on.

Each is one typeset document: its own table of contents, its figures, its mathematics and its bibliography, with every citation resolved. It fetches nothing while you read it.

Start at Paper 0, take a track if you came for something specific, or read the whole corpus end to end.

The fifteen

0. The Entity System — the six primitives and their combinatorics; the root.
1. The Entity Core Protocol — the wire format and the locked core.
2. Entity Computation — what computes, and where.
3. Dimensional Completeness — why the primitive set closes.
4. The Machine Boundary — where the substrate stops.
5. The Computational Genome — structure that carries its own construction.
6. Convergent Evolution — the same shape arrived at from different starts.
7. DEOS — the Distributed Entity Operating System — the substrate as an operating system.
8. Information as Substrate — information as the thing itself, not a description of it.
9. Application Architectures — the forms an application takes on it.
10. Security Architecture — the trust model and what it rests on.
11. Structural Methodology — the method behind the work.
12. Abiogenesis Theory — the method pointed at origins. Exploratory.
13. Physics as Information Substrate — the method pointed at physics. Exploratory.
14. The Decentralized Systems Landscape — the deployed field, and where this sits in it.

The tracks

A track is a way through the papers, gathered into one document so it can be read the way it was meant to be rather than as four separate visits.

Protocol Path — the wire-level core, read as a specification. Papers 0 → 1 → 3 → 10.

Architecture Path — the system at scale, among others. Papers 0 → 6 → 7 → 9 → 14.

Substrate Companions — the theory the system rests on. Papers 0 → 2 → 5 → 8 → 4.

Methodology Path — the method, and where it has been pointed. The most exploratory of the set. Papers 11 → 12 → 13.

The whole corpus

• Full Corpus — every paper, in the order they build in.
• Tree Order — depth-first along the reference graph, so each paper arrives after the ones it rests on.
• Narrative Order — the build-up story: substrate, extension, validation, the deployed world, reflection, methodology.

Elsewhere

The vocabulary the corpus is written in — each term defined, cited to where it is defined, and located at every place it occurs — is in the glossary.

Every paper and every track is also published as a PDF, which is the archival form and the one to cite. Those live in the rendered-content repository.