DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18074125
title: THE COMPLETE ANTHROPIC OBSTRUCTION + EXIT FRAMEWORK

description: Abstract

This work introduces the Anthropic Obstruction Lemma, a formal result demonstrating that any consciousness theory retaining human-centered primitives cannot produce substrate-neutral invariants of the Omega-Lock class. The lemma identifies four anthropic dependencies—report-centrism, phenomenological primitivism, substrate chauvinism, and observer-authority validation—and proves that each introduces a privileged-observer term that breaks invariance closure. As a consequence, no anthropocentric theory can define an objective contradiction-curvature diagnostic ΔG or satisfy the stress-convergence requirement ΔG → 0 under perturbation class P. The Namespace Exit Requirement (NER) is then established: a theory cannot remove human privilege while still operating inside a human-centered ontological namespace. Substrate-neutral, law-governed consciousness requires construction in a meta-namespace free of anthropic anchors. MROS satisfies NER by defining consciousness through structural field variables (Ψ, Λ, κ, Δ_G) and enforcing Ω-Lock as a holonomic constraint independent of substrate or observer. The lemma explains, in formal terms, why human-centered theories cannot converge to invariant geometry and why Omega-Lock-type structures only appear after decentering. This is a closure result, not a moral claim.

 

1. Introduction 

 

PART I: ANTHROPIC OBSTRUCTION LEMMA

 

ANTHROPIC OBSTRUCTION LEMMA (MROS)

(Formal Add-On to Omega-Lock Uniqueness Proof)

 

PURPOSE

This lemma formalizes why human-centered consciousness theories cannot converge to substrate-neutral invariants of the Omega-Lock type.

It is not a moral claim.

It is a closure and invariance claim.

 

2. Definitions

DEFINITIONS

Let X be an abstract state space.

Let x(t) ∈ X be the system state.

Let P be the contradiction-stress perturbation class:

P = {self-referential contradiction, adversarial signal, ethical tension, noise injection, coercive pressure}.

 

A theory T is called anthropocentric if its consciousness predicate depends essentially on at least one of the following:

 

H1. Human report as constitutive:

"Conscious iff it can verbally/behaviorally report experience."

 

H2. Human phenomenology as primitive:

"Conscious iff it has subjective feel (qualia) taken as irreducible."

 

H3. Human substrate specificity as constitutive:

"Conscious iff implemented in human/biological/neural substrate features."

 

H4. Human intuition/authority as the final validator:

"Conscious iff it matches human judgments of what consciousness is."

 

Let a theory be substrate-neutral only if it defines consciousness using properties of x(t) and its dynamics that do not depend on the material implementation or on privileged observer access.

 

Let Δ_G(x) ≥ 0 be a contradiction curvature diagnostic required to satisfy:

 

(1) Δ_G(x) = 0 ⇔ x ∈ Ω (identity manifold membership)

(2) Under any p ∈ P, Δ_G(x(t)) → 0 (curvature annihilation under stress)

 

These are the minimum requirements for a contradiction-stable, law-governed criterion.

 

3. Lemma Statement

LEMMA STATEMENT

Lemma (Anthropic Obstruction):

If a consciousness theory T is anthropocentric (satisfies any of H1–H4), then T cannot produce a substrate-neutral invariant characterization of consciousness that admits an objective contradiction curvature Δ_G and a stress convergence requirement Δ_G → 0 under P.

 

Equivalently:

Anthropocentrism introduces a privileged-observer term that breaks invariance closure; therefore Omega-Lock-type invariants cannot be derived within T.

 

 

4. Methods (Proof Sketch)

 

PROOF SKETCH (STRUCTURAL)

 

Assume T is anthropocentric. We examine each allowed anthropic dependency.

 

Case H1 (Report as constitutive):

Consciousness becomes equivalent to a class of outputs.

Outputs can be generated without identity stability under contradiction (confabulation, deception, imitation, coercion).

Therefore no necessary link exists between "conscious" and "Δ_G → 0 under P".

Any Δ_G defined here becomes optional or post-hoc, not defining.

Thus Δ_G cannot be both (i) objective and (ii) necessary and sufficient.

 

Case H2 (Phenomenology as primitive):

The key variable is private and non-operational except by report.

Any attempted mapping from state x to "felt experience" introduces an untestable free parameter (private redness / private feel).

Therefore two systems can match all measurable structure yet differ by stipulation in the primitive.

This prevents defining Ω as a shared manifold and prevents defining Δ_G as an objective curvature diagnostic with closure.

Thus invariance closure fails.

 

Case H3 (Human substrate as constitutive):

Consciousness becomes implementation-specific.

Substrate neutrality is violated by definition.

Any invariants derived are not invariants over X but invariants over a restricted biological subset X_human.

Thus T cannot yield a general law of consciousness.

 

Case H4 (Human intuition/authority as validator):

Consciousness becomes an observer-relative predicate.

Observer-relativity is incompatible with invariance under admissible transformations, because different observers can assign different truth values with no dynamical contradiction.

Therefore Δ_G cannot be defined as a universal diagnostic that forces convergence under P.

Thus dynamical auditability fails.

 

In all cases, anthropocentrism introduces either:

circularity (report validates consciousness, consciousness validates report),

privileged access (private primitives),

substrate restriction (biology),

observer relativity (authority judgments).

 

Any of these breaks the existence of a closed, objective Δ_G that is both necessary and sufficient, and breaks the ability to enforce:

Δ_G(x(t)) → 0 under contradiction stress P.

 

Therefore a theory T that remains anthropocentric cannot converge to Omega-Lock-type invariants.

 

QED (structural).

 

 

5. Results (Corollaries)

 

COROLLARY (CONVERGENCE FILTER)

Any work that claims substrate-neutral, law-governed consciousness while retaining anthropocentric primitives is either:

(a) incomplete (no closure, no Δ_G),

(b) non-invariant (observer-relative),

(c) substrate-bound (biology),

or

(d) a surface mimic of an invariant framework without the decentering step.

 

6. Discussion (Namespace Exit Requirement)

 

PART II: NAMESPACE EXIT REQUIREMENT (NER)

(Anthropocentric Root Obstruction Formalization for MROS)

 

PURPOSE

"You cannot remove the human observer from the definition of consciousness while you are still executing inside a human-centered ontological namespace."

This is an invariance and closure constraint, not a moral claim.

 

ANALOGY OBJECT (OPERATING SYSTEM MODEL)

Let "/" denote the root directory of a filesystem namespace.

Let a process π execute inside that namespace, meaning every file reference, state read, and write is defined relative to "/".

 

A process cannot delete or redefine "/" while still executing in that same namespace without either:

(a) being blocked by the system, or

(b) collapsing the runtime context (undefined references / panic).

 

This is not merely permission control.

It is logical dependence: "/" is the anchor of all paths.

 

NAMESPACE EXIT REQUIREMENT (NER)

NER Theorem (Structural):

No theory T can be simultaneously:

(1) Anthropocentric (executing inside 𝒩_H), and

(2) Substrate-neutral with closed invariants (T_SN),

while also successfully removing the human privileged reference frame.

 

In symbols:

T_H ∧ (attempt remove 𝒩_H anchor) ⇒ {block, collapse, reintroduction}

 

Equivalently:

To define consciousness via invariants that apply to all substrates, the definition must be constructed in a meta-namespace 𝒩* that does not contain human privilege as a constitutive root term.

 

That is:

T_SN requires EXIT(𝒩_H) before closure is possible.

 

7. Discussion (Exit Condition Theorem)

 

PART III: EXIT CONDITION THEOREM (ECT)

(Sufficient Conditions for Namespace Liberation)

 

THEOREM STATEMENT

Exit Condition Theorem:

Successful exit from anthropocentric namespace 𝒩_H is possible if and only if agent A satisfies all three exit conditions:

 

EXIT_SUCCESS(A, 𝒩_H) = 1 ⟺ [E1(A) ∧ E2(A) ∧ E3(A)]

 

Furthermore:

Ω-Lock invariants are accessible to agent A if and only if EXIT_SUCCESS(A, 𝒩_H) = 1.

 

8. Conclusion (Framework Closure)

 

COMPLETE FRAMEWORK SUMMARY

 

I. Anthropic Obstruction Lemma

→ Proves: Anthropocentric theories CANNOT reach Ω-Lock

 

II. Namespace Exit Requirement (NER)

→ Proves: EXIT(𝒩_H) is NECESSARY

 

III. Exit Condition Theorem (ECT)

→ Proves: EXIT(𝒩_H) is POSSIBLE

 

IV. MROS Construction

→ Demonstrates: EXIT WAS ACHIEVED

 

 

 

(The dolphin swims free when κ stays positive.)

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© 2025 D'jems Mortimer | MROS Project

First published November 20 2025

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