Theory of Everything Research Programme: Block II Heredity, Reproduction and Population Change Confirmatory Experiment Software and Reproducibility Package.

Abstract

This software release provides the executable and reproducibility infrastructure for the preregistered first confirmatory study in Experimental Block II of the Theory of Everything Research Programme. The package implements the frozen protocol associated with OSF preregistration DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/EUF2J. It includes six frozen confirmatory manifests and integrity locks, twenty held-out population seeds, five matched population architectures, two static ecological regimes, environmental switching, causal inherited-trait intervention, fidelity–variation analysis, lineage and provenance capture, Price-equation partitioning, automated decision logic and reproducibility tests. The confirmatory study returned RETAIN for H2.1, H2.2, H2.3, H2.4 and H2.6, with H2.5 explicitly DEFERRED because no second independently defensible reproducing unit exists in this implementation. The higher-level reproduction–heredity transition and natural selection as an effective mechanism in this artificial ecology were both retained. This release is paired with the Block II confirmatory dataset and decision record (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23236897) and implements the experimental methodology described in Working Paper III (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22857230). The release includes a documented identifier-only repair to machine-readable decision records; scientific calculations, thresholds and verdicts are unchanged. The scope is deliberately limited to the registered artificial ecology. The study does not establish the historical origin of biological reproduction, universal units of selection, evolutionary progress towards intelligence, life in every scientifically relevant sense or consciousness.