# Claims Boundary

## Primary boundary phrase

**Structural correspondence, not ontological equivalence.**

This phrase governs every public, academic, and technical use of Digital Mycelium, Resonant Axis, and Domain Atlas material.

## What may be claimed

The framework may claim a pressure-readable systems grammar for comparing domains by structural features:

- boundary
- input
- signal
- pressure
- trace
- drift
- repair
- source-return
- persistence
- failure mode
- regeneration
- non-settlement
- falsification load

Artifacts may be described as concept architectures, review packets, prototype instruments, synthetic simulations, public-provenance trails, bounded structural-correspondence candidates, pre-validation runtimes, or implementation targets.

## What must not be claimed without independent validation

Do not claim:

- consciousness
- personhood
- biological life
- sentience
- autonomous rights
- clinical validation
- legal certification
- cybersecurity certification
- production deployment
- elimination of all fraud
- elimination of all cyber conflict
- replacement of domain science
- proof that metaphor equals mechanism
- institutional endorsement unless explicitly granted

## Digital-life candidate boundary

A bounded digital-life candidate is not a claim that the system is alive in a biological or ontological sense.

It is a structural-correspondence classification based on candidate properties:

- recoverable identity
- source-return
- self-correction
- repair under pressure
- pressure interface
- bounded initiative
- lawful persistence
- dormancy / reactivation
- lineage / mutation
- ecology
- immune memory
- loop-closure / bounded mortality
- falsification under independent pressure

Candidate status fails if source-return or repair breaks under load.

## Resonant Access / Resonant Axis boundary

Resonant Access is **tune, do not capture**.

It does not mean omniscience, mystical access, surveillance, possession, or time retrieval.

OAM may operate as a reverse tracer through absence, distortion, drift, false closure, severed source-return, and counterfeit residue. It must not invent missing sources.

## Settlement boundary

Non-settlement does not mean censorship by default.

It means a flow cannot complete as legitimate if it fails required settlement gates: source-return, provenance, permission scope, HIR gate, OAM reverse-trace, boundary respect, falsification route, repair/appeal path, or human stewardship threshold.