Theorems

These are the statements that drive the work. In the author's own words they are not all proven; they are what is driving the investigations. Each carries a label for how far it has been shown. The labels are proposals and the author can change them.

Statement	Label	Where it stands
The universe shall have balance.	Stance	A metaphysical stance. Not tested and not testable as stated.
There is an architecture in life (endogenous) and the interactions that life has in its environment (exogenous). The author is not saying the committed-node architecture captures the whole of it.	Framing	A division of the subject. It claims no more than the parenthesis allows.
Life interacting with other life is how signals are exchanged.	Framing	A description, not a result.
Life cannot thrive without both substrate and signal exchanged.	Principle, n = 1	One case: the endocannabinoid system. See ledger row L26.
Any adaptive system that must compress multiple inputs into an irreversible decision under finite resources converges on the committed-node architecture.	Conjecture	The theorem the series is trying to earn and has not. See ledger row L01 and the committed node.

Told as a piece: The Dance Is In Us puts three of these in the author's own words: balance, life exchanging signals with other life, and substrate and signal together as nourishment. It is a stance, not a finding.

How to read the last one

The conjecture is stated as "any adaptive system". The evidence is a handful of domains in which the architecture can be fitted, and the series' own register says a fit is the cheapest thing in science to produce. The test that would carry more weight is the one the style sheet says has never been run: predict a node's type in one domain from the determinants that fixed a type in another, then measure it. Until then it is a conjecture, and this page shows it as one.