MathGov · RippleLogic

MathGov RippleLogic: Reality. Rights. Ripples.

MathGov is an ethical-governance framework. RippleLogic is its rights-constrained decision architecture: ground the claim, protect non-compensatory floors, bound ruin, test whether the structure can stand, then rank only the survivors.

A later stage cannot rescue an earlier failure. A high score cannot repair an unsupported claim, buy a rights violation, average away ruin, or make a structurally non-viable option selectable.

Core v13.0 · SGP v8.8 · build Release I · 26 September 2026

Start here

Three doors. Pick your depth.

Begin with the current introduction, explore the Primer, or follow the human journey. Full publications and searchable readers are one click away.

30 minutes

Foundations Primer

The technical-public bridge: why the architecture exists, what each layer does, what it does not claim, and how to read the full Core.

v4.7 · current introductory companion
Human journey

Journey to RippleLogic

The warm public doorway: lived origin, 3R, the 1–2 method, Union scopes, worked examples, SGP, practice, and the larger horizon.

v7.0 complete web reader and 184-page PDF now published · v6.5 remains available as historical edition
Original v13.0 artwork preserved. The image says “Released August 15”; the current publication is Release I, 26 September 2026. The versioned specification controls.
Current public line

MathGov Core v13.0 · SGP v8.8

The architecture is now in stabilization: the emphasis shifts from speculative feature growth toward replay, measurement, disagreement, falsification, pilots, and public challenge.

Exact buildMG-RL-13.0-20260926-RELEASE-I
Public cascadeRG → RF/NCRC → TRC → CSV → RLS
Core invariantQualify first. Rank only what survives.
Next evidenceIndependent replay, IRR, measurement, shadow pilots.
The decision architecture

Four qualify. One ranks.

Reality Grounding controls claim authority. Rights, tail risk, and structural viability determine the selectable set. RLS ranks only that set. If evidence cannot support a deterministic result, refusal is a legitimate output.

PHASE 1 · QUALIFYRG → RF/NCRC → TRC → CSV
PHASE 2 · RANKRLS
RG

Reality Grounding

Ground evidence, unknowns, causal pathways, configuration, and the strongest supportable claim.

RF/NCRC

Rights Floor

Protected floors are non-compensatory. Welfare elsewhere cannot purchase a rights breach.

TRC

Tail-Risk Constraint

Ruin-class and irreversible exposure are governed separately from ordinary expected benefit.

CSV

Structural Viability

Containment, dependencies, execution feasibility, repair, reversibility, governance, and future option space.

RLS

RippleLogic Score

Residual welfare ranking across the qualified set only. Uncertainty can force refusal.

RF/NCRC = Rights Floor / Non-Compensatory Rights Constraint. A failed protected floor is removed from ordinary trade-off arithmetic rather than “paid for” by benefits elsewhere.

Retained v12.6 teaching illustration of the cascade. For current definitions and state semantics, read the v13.0 Canon. Open the original illustration.

A teaching run: watch options leave before scoring

Fixed illustration only. Not a live calculator, a validated result, or authority to act.

Coverage without false precision

Seven scopes × seven dimensions = 49 accountability domains.

The grid is a coverage discipline. It makes omitted stakeholders, exported costs, and missing dimensions harder to hide. It does not pretend the world is reducible to 49 boxes.

  • Seven scopes: Self, Household, Community, Organization, Polity, Humanity / Global Coordination, Biosphere.
  • Seven dimensions: Material, Health, Social, Knowledge, Agency, Meaning, Environment.
  • Biosphere-specific interface: U7/D5 is Resilience Capacity; U7/D6 is Life Continuity.
  • Non-maskability: rights floors and catastrophe-relevant harms remain governed upstream.
Open the full-size matrix. High-readability 7×7 public teaching matrix.
The MathGov framework

A connected framework. Distinct responsibilities.

Explore the governing specification, protection companion, implementation work, independent evaluation, and domain application. Each retains its own version and evidence requirements.

Governing architecture

RippleLogic Canon

The principal specification for qualification, rights, tail risk, structural viability, the 7×7 field, RLS, refusal, and decision-to-action boundaries.

v13.0 · current specification
Protection companion

Sentience Gradient Protocol

Evidence-governed moral patienthood, full protection, participation, stewardship, intelligence capacity, and reality-management capacity across substrates.

v8.8 · protection companion
Implementation

MHIOS

Human-interface and orchestration companion: a complete standard, preparation workbook, schemas, synthetic examples and bounded record-consistency checks. All fifteen Core v13.0 source files are pinned unchanged. Local consistency is not authority or deployment readiness.

v2.1 · Core v13.0 Release I / SGP v8.8 · Apache-2.0
Independent evaluation

Auditable Flourishing

A rights-protecting assurance protocol for comparing high-impact decision frameworks while permitting adverse and non-superiority findings.

v6.2 · 12-page methods submission draft + 104-page core protocol · canonical registry, test vectors, SHA-256 manifests
Domain application

AIAP

A claim-level assurance architecture for AI-mediated higher education: what competence is claimed, what evidence supports it, and what may legitimately follow.

v6.5 · 87 pages · JSON assurance-record schema and validator

Open edition 1: code and schemas Apache-2.0; author-owned research materials CC-BY-4.0. Historical restrictive notices are superseded by the open-license grant.

Authority rule. Canon and SGP govern their declared domains. MHIOS implements without adding a cascade stage. Auditable Flourishing evaluates without inheriting MathGov validity. AIAP is a domain application with its own validation burden. Research papers provide arguments and hypotheses, not hidden operational authority.

Decision guidance and protection remain connected without collapsing into one score. Open the full-size illustration.
Different questions. Different outputs.

SGP informs protection. RippleLogic guides admissible action.

SGP helps determine who or what requires protection, participation, representation, or role-specific scrutiny. RippleLogic evaluates candidate actions. SGP is a companion to the cascade, not an extra gate.

Fourteen DOCX masters govern the specification under Canon/SGP precedence; HTML, Markdown and PDF are reading projections. The XLSX controls its frozen worked example. Related research: ORSH / AIU.

Open research collection · v1.8-open.1

ORSH / AIU Research

ORSH = Open Relational Substrate Hypothesis; AIU = Absolute Infinite Union. A separate research collection on frame-aligned records, locality, and philosophical foundations.

Five works on quantum records, locality, and philosophical foundations. Read the papers, examine their evidence, download editable documents, and work with the supporting data and code.

Scientific research · v0.5

01 · Frame-Aligned Records

The scientific argument: safeguards for comparing locality and records in quantum models.

Read online →
Scientific research · v1.2

02 · Technical Supplement

Supporting mathematics, definitions, and technical qualifications.

Read online →
Scientific research · v1.2

03 · Post-Injection Results

Numerical findings, comparisons, and limits on their interpretation.

Read online →
Scientific research · v1.3

04 · P01 Protocol

Study design and the pre-execution record for examining the experiments.

Read online →
Philosophy · v1.4

05 · Absolute Infinite Union

A separate philosophical argument, with its commitments and criticisms made explicit.

Read online →

Evidence boundary. The original pilot and later factorial comparisons examine different questions. Hamiltonian rotation does not isolate locality alone. Reproduction does not establish the philosophical thesis, a spacetime metric, or a consciousness result. Read the evidence guide.

Each reader provides PDF, editable DOCX and canonical Markdown. Author-owned research, figures and data: CC BY 4.0; original software: Apache 2.0, subject to component and third-party notices. Scientific research and philosophy remain distinct from the RippleLogic decision specification.

Retained SGP teaching illustration. The current SGP v8.8 source controls exact definitions. Open the full-size illustration.
Protection without construct collapse

Sentience is not intelligence. Protection is not power.

SGP separates six questions often collapsed into one. Its purpose is not to produce a consciousness percentage; it is to govern evidence and protection under uncertainty while blocking capacity-to-authority leakage.

MPSMoral Patienthood SurfaceEvidence of welfare-bearing experience.
FPPFull Protection PlateauFull rights-of-protection; every human person is FPP-100 by constitutional commitment.
GPRGovernance Participation ReadinessHow a being can participate or be represented.
SPRStewardship / Power ReadinessFitness for a specific consequential role.
ICPIntelligence Capacity ProfileCapability and cognition, not moral worth.
RMCPReality-Management Capacity ProfileIntegrated capacity to model and shape reality; capacity is not authority.

Human FPP-100 is constitutional, not measured. Humanity’s collective RMCP-P100 anchor is a capacity reference, not a ranking of worth, wisdom, or legitimate power.

Journey to RippleLogic: From Me to We, by James MathGov. A traveler follows a luminous path toward a tree beneath a cosmic sky.
Select the cover to open the v7.0 reader and PDF. The cover itself does not identify a manuscript version.
The human doorway

Journey to RippleLogic

v7.0 complete reader and trade edition published · v6.5 retained as a historical reader

“Love, if it is going to survive pressure, needs structure.”

The book begins with lived experience and moves into the 3R doorway, MathGov 1–2, Union scopes, the five-stage cascade, worked decisions, SGP, the practice loop, and the wider philosophical horizon. It teaches the method without replacing the governing sources.

13 chapters, nine appendices and all 30 illustrations. Historical v6.5 remains available: reader, PDF, and editable DOCX, complete source package and revision report →.

Foundations and selected research

Research beneath and beyond the Core.

These works deepen empirical, philosophical, and frontier questions around MathGov. They inform the research programme but do not govern the Core.

Flagship non-Canon research synthesis

Intelligence Must Advance Without Life Losing

Qualification, moral status, action binding, successor integrity, epistemic discipline, and evidence-aware coordination across human, institutional, machine, and hybrid intelligence.

v2.4 · 44 pages · publication-ready
Advanced conceptual working paper

The Capability Barricade

Governing sustained-suffering risk under moral-patient uncertainty without pretending uncertain sentience has been proved.

Working Paper v1.1 · 23 pages
Convergence working paper

State–Task Alignment

A three-layer research framework for consequence-sensitive task routing under uncertain readiness. Complete as a research framework; not validated guidance.

v1.6 · 33 pages
Stewardship, not ownership

A framework that asks power to submit to audit must submit to audit itself.

MathGov treats its own architecture as challengeable. The appropriate next move after specification is not declaring victory; it is exposing assumptions, testing replay, measuring disagreement, publishing adverse findings, and revising only when reality earns the revision.

  • Independent replay before institutional authority.
  • Material unknowns stay visible rather than becoming zero.
  • Pass-equivalent states remain challengeable.
  • Selection is not authorization; authorization is not physical safety.
  • Adverse results are evidence, not embarrassment.
Public stewardship metaphor. It explains; it does not govern. Open the full-size image.
Claims and evidence state

Say exactly what has been built, and exactly what has not.

A framework that asks others to expose assumptions, evidence state, uncertainty, and authority should expose its own.

What has been published and checked

  • A specified, versioned, auditable decision architecture.
  • A fixed qualify-then-rank cascade with non-compensatory rights protection and separate tail-risk control.
  • A frozen publication with integrity checks, scoped reference tests, readable documents, and a bounded worked example.
  • Explicit protection, implementation, evaluation, and application boundaries across the major works.
  • Reproducible artifacts and challenge paths where each package declares them.

What it does not establish

  • Empirical superiority of MathGov or RippleLogic.
  • Legal, medical, engineering, safety, procurement, or deployment certification.
  • Consciousness detection or metaphysical proof.
  • Automated moral truth or autonomous governance authority.
  • That selection means authorization or physical executability.
  • That companion or research works inherit Core validity.
Core v13.0 / SGP v8.8
Published research-and-teaching specification, Release I. Empirical validity and production readiness are not established.
MHIOS v2.1
Current research-and-teaching companion pinned to Core v13.0 Release I / SGP v8.8. The repeated suite passed 133 tests and six synthetic examples. Human-interface performance, empirical validity, real authority and production readiness remain unestablished.
AF v6.2
Release-complete evaluation method; independent challenge and empirical application are next.
AIAP v6.5
Specification-complete for scholarly evaluation and governed pilot preparation; integrated intervention not empirically validated.
ORSH / AIU v1.8
Open specialist-review research collection. Scientific results have bounded interpretations; the AIU thesis is philosophical. Publication does not imply journal acceptance or independent external replication.

Verify the current evidence state: Core validation status ↗ · MHIOS validation report ↗ · AF known limitations ↗ · AF verification steps ↗ · AIAP release notes ↗

Is RippleLogic just a weighted score?

No. RLS is downstream. RG, RF/NCRC, TRC, and CSV determine which options may enter ordinary ranking. A later score cannot rescue an earlier failure.

Is SGP a consciousness detector?

No. SGP governs evidence and protection under uncertainty. It separates moral patienthood, full protection, participation, stewardship, intelligence capacity, and reality-management capacity rather than turning them into one “being score.”

Has MathGov been empirically validated?

No claim of empirical superiority is made by the current Core release. Internal release verification establishes conformance within declared tested surfaces. Independent replay, inter-rater studies, measurement work, and bounded pilots remain necessary.

Does a selected option automatically have authority to execute?

No. Selection, legitimate authority, physical or causal admissibility, execution conditions, monitoring, and requalification are distinct. A consequence interface is not legitimate authority.

Release I has scoped dependency limits and no new native Excel recalculation/save/reopen certification. See the dependency record, verification report, and installation guide.

Complete sources and verification

Everything deeper lives on GitHub.

Searchable reading sites present the publications. GitHub preserves versioned sources, workbooks, examples, scoped tests, checksums, release reports, and history.

  • MathGov Core v13.0: complete release tree, Canon, SGP, companions, validation status, claims and non-claims.
  • MHIOS v2.1: Core v13.0-pinned standard, preparation workbook, session and interface-state schemas, synthetic examples, bounded checks and verification reports.
  • Auditable Flourishing v6.2: protocol, canonical registry, mixed-state test vectors, SHA-256 manifests, known limitations.
  • AIAP v6.5: core paper, normative standard, workbooks, assurance-record schema, validator, verification pack.
  • Historical versions remain available without being presented as current.
  • ORSH / AIU: five works with data, code, reproduction guidance, citations, and a fixed open-publication edition.

Reuse terms are collection-specific. AIAP original code and schemas use Apache-2.0; author-owned research materials use CC-BY-4.0 under its open-edition grant. Auditable Flourishing uses CC-BY-4.0. Consult each repository’s license and third-party notices.

Participate · Practice · Challenge

We are Ripple Aligners.

Don’t just believe RippleLogic. Test it. Use it. Apply it. Try to break it.

Use RippleLogic on real decisions: hard trade-offs, social dilemmas, institutions, technologies, public choices, family choices, and the decisions that shape our shared future.

Challenge it hard. Find where the evidence is thin, where a gate misfires, where the burden is too high, or where a simpler method works better. Improve what can be improved. Keep what survives scrutiny.

The practical aim is simple: reduce avoidable harm, expand durable benefit, protect non-compensatory rights, and stop exporting costs to someone else, somewhere else, or some future generation.

Apply

Use it on decisions that matter

Ground the claim, protect the floor, test ruin and viability, then compare only the options that survive. Record what changes when the method meets a real problem.

Challenge

Try to break it

Look for omitted stakeholders, weak evidence, hidden assumptions, brittle thresholds, false certainty, excessive burden, and cases where RippleLogic adds no value. A failure found honestly is useful evidence.

Align

Improve the ripple

Seek outcomes that protect rights and widen flourishing without shifting severe costs onto less powerful people, distant communities, other beings, or future generations.

Prosper. Flourish. Help others flourish.

That is the goal: not perfection, not obedience, and not ownership of the compass. Better decisions that remain open to evidence, challenge, repair, and learning.

Now is the time. We are Ripple Aligners.

Ripple Aligners: people who use, test, challenge, and improve the framework while keeping reality, rights, and wider consequences in view.