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Questions and experiments are stages of one lifecycle. “Ready” means the data, falsifier, boring confound, verifier, and claim ceiling all exist. Today, zero tests meet that full bar.

Needs dataQ-BIOLOGY-RECEPTOR

Do receptor-family bridges survive exact 27-gene identity and provenance checks?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-BIOLOGY-RECEPTOR-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Existing 27-gene ledgers; expression and true receptor-family universes are absent
Blocker
expression matrix and receptor-family annotations
Boring confound
gene-symbol aliases and mixed receptor families
Verifier
Deterministic provenance join plus expression/family-matched nulls with planted controls
Kill rule
Kill any bridge whose members lack exact source-backed receptor-family identity.
Claim ceiling
Dataset-specific provenance result; no biological mechanism.
Needs dataQ-BODY-BOUNDARY

Do G-LOC, syncope, coma, anesthesia, sleep-paralysis, and NDE data preserve trigger-specific body-boundary patterns?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-BODY-BOUNDARY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Some coded narratives; raw denominators incomplete
Blocker
raw denominators and independent labels
Boring confound
keyword extraction, selected case series, unequal denominators
Verifier
Blinded precision audit followed by diagnosis-matched proportion contrasts
Kill rule
Kill if validated labels or non-selected denominators remove the trigger contrast.
Claim ceiling
Trigger/corpus contrast only; no shared mechanism.
Needs designQ-COMMUNICATION-SPLIT

What survives when the exploratory communication split pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-COMMUNICATION-SPLIT-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs dataQ-CORT-INTERMISSION

Do intermission features survive a source-traceable case-level matrix?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-CORT-INTERMISSION-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Public CORT sources exist; case matrix incomplete
Blocker
case-level extraction
Boring confound
secondary summaries and selected memorable cases
Verifier
Double-entry source verification with blind feature coding
Kill rule
Kill if source-verifiable case rates do not reproduce the proposed subtype.
Claim ceiling
Documented-case pattern only.
Needs physical collaboratorQ-CORT-PROSPECTIVE

Can prospective reincarnation-case documentation beat family and investigator information leakage?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

EXP-02: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Historical cases only
Blocker
participants and field collaborators
Boring confound
retrospective memory, family cueing, investigator leakage
Verifier
Prospective sealed statements, independent matching, and blinded scoring
Kill rule
Kill if blinded matches do not exceed preregistered decoys.
Claim ceiling
Prospective case documentation only.
Needs physical collaboratorQ-CRISIS-APPARITION-PROSPECTIVE

Does a modern contemporaneous census show death-time coincidence beyond reporting opportunity?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

EXP-03: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Historical literature; no modern census
Blocker
participants, ethics, outcome linkage
Boring confound
retrospective dating, denominator and reporting bias
Verifier
Prospective timestamped reports linked blindly to outcome records
Kill rule
Kill if coincidence does not exceed the frozen opportunity-adjusted null.
Claim ceiling
Prospective cohort association only.
Needs designQ-DISCOURSE-QUALITY

What survives when the exploratory discourse quality pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-DISCOURSE-QUALITY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs physical collaboratorQ-DMT-NDE-BRIDGE

Do DMT and NDE reports share a specific signal beyond vocabulary and generic altered-state content?

4 linked tests · last triaged 2026-07-23

EXP-BRIDGE-25-01: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Low-density/archive data tested; decisive paired data absent
Blocker
new high-density paired datasets
Boring confound
item wording, vocabulary leakage, resolution mismatch
Verifier
Held-out validated coding; physiology requires preregistered paired high-density data
Kill rule
Kill if overlap vanishes under leakage controls or physiology fails preregistered targets.
Claim ceiling
Dataset-specific bridge or bounded null; no common mechanism.
EXP-BRIDGE-25-02: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Low-density/archive data tested; decisive paired data absent
Blocker
new high-density paired datasets
Boring confound
item wording, vocabulary leakage, resolution mismatch
Verifier
Held-out validated coding; physiology requires preregistered paired high-density data
Kill rule
Kill if overlap vanishes under leakage controls or physiology fails preregistered targets.
Claim ceiling
Dataset-specific bridge or bounded null; no common mechanism.
EXP-BRIDGE-25-03: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Low-density/archive data tested; decisive paired data absent
Blocker
new high-density paired datasets
Boring confound
item wording, vocabulary leakage, resolution mismatch
Verifier
Held-out validated coding; physiology requires preregistered paired high-density data
Kill rule
Kill if overlap vanishes under leakage controls or physiology fails preregistered targets.
Claim ceiling
Dataset-specific bridge or bounded null; no common mechanism.
EXP-BRIDGE-25-04: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Low-density/archive data tested; decisive paired data absent
Blocker
new high-density paired datasets
Boring confound
item wording, vocabulary leakage, resolution mismatch
Verifier
Held-out validated coding; physiology requires preregistered paired high-density data
Kill rule
Kill if overlap vanishes under leakage controls or physiology fails preregistered targets.
Claim ceiling
Dataset-specific bridge or bounded null; no common mechanism.
Needs designQ-DREAM-EXPERIENCE-EEG

Is the dream-report EEG correlate more than arousal or sleep depth?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-DREAM-EXPERIENCE-EEG-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Archive data and exploratory result exist
Blocker
analysis design and adequate raw channels
Boring confound
stage, time, absolute power, and arousal
Verifier
Stage/time-matched replication with absolute power and source localization
Kill rule
Kill consciousness-specific framing if arousal/depth controls absorb the effect.
Claim ceiling
Archive-local physiological correlate only.
Needs dataQ-DREAM-PRIVACY-LINKAGE

Does dream-report linkage generalize to independent open-set contributors?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-DREAM-PRIVACY-LINKAGE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
DreamBank result only; external cohort absent
Blocker
independent consented cohort
Boring confound
recurring content, recorder/transcriber, closed-set advantage
Verifier
Open-set external cohort with contributor and recorder separation
Kill rule
Kill generalization if open-set linkage falls to the frozen null.
Claim ceiling
Current finding remains one-archive closed-set linkage.
Needs designQ-EM-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE

What survives when the exploratory em measurement invariance pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-EM-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-ENVIRONMENTAL-SUBSTRATE

Does the wet/cave/forest lower-trickster pattern survive blinded row adjudication and corpus controls?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-ENVIRONMENTAL-SUBSTRATE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Existing 120-row stratified packet
Blocker
coding rubric and second coder
Boring confound
genre words, setting mentions, report length, and source channel
Verifier
Two blinded human coders plus held-out adjudication agreement and within-corpus estimates
Kill rule
Kill if adjudicated positives collapse to lexical artifacts or within-corpus effects vanish.
Claim ceiling
One packet/corpus ecology result; no environmental causation.
Needs physical collaboratorQ-GCP-PROSPECTIVE

Does a preregistered future event produce network behavior beyond hardware and selection controls?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

EXP-01: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Retrospective archive only
Blocker
future events and live network
Boring confound
event selection, device drift, archive sensitivity choices
Verifier
Prospective preregistration with hardware diagnostics and untouched endpoint
Kill rule
Kill if prospective endpoint stays inside its frozen null.
Claim ceiling
Prospective network statistic only.
Needs dataQ-HESSDALEN-ECOLOGY

Does the matched weather/Kp result replicate on direct station data and held-out dates?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-HESSDALEN-ECOLOGY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Current dated corpus; direct station coverage incomplete
Blocker
station logs and independent dates
Boring confound
reanalysis-grid error and observer opportunity
Verifier
Held-out case-crossover using station logs and observer-density controls
Kill rule
Kill extension if Kp elevation appears or weather differences vanish.
Claim ceiling
Current finding stays reanalysis-based observation ecology.
Needs designQ-LIGHT-SEPARATION

What survives when the exploratory light separation pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-LIGHT-SEPARATION-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs dataQ-LZC-APERIODIC

Does the LZc effect remain absent after preregistered aperiodic control in new raw EEG?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-LZC-APERIODIC-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Two retrospective datasets; prospective replication absent
Blocker
independent raw EEG
Boring confound
spectral slope, power, state mixing, and small subjects
Verifier
Person-level preregistered mixed model with spectral-surrogate comparison
Kill rule
Falsify the current claim if a powered drug effect survives slope control.
Claim ceiling
Current claim remains two-dataset measurement result.
Needs designQ-NDE-DREAM-MEANING

Do NDE and DreamBank meaning/communication contrasts survive source, length, and ontology controls?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-NDE-DREAM-MEANING-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
NDE and DreamBank text exist
Blocker
validated refined ontology
Boring confound
source style, length, repeated people, and ontology leakage
Verifier
Blinded codebook labels with held-out source-family tests
Kill rule
Kill if the contrast vanishes under source/length controls.
Claim ceiling
Two-archive semantic contrast only.
Needs dataQ-NDE-LIFE-REVIEW

Is the reported life-review/deceased-relative subtype reproducible from validated NDE rows?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-NDE-LIFE-REVIEW-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Claim summary exists; validated row packet not found
Blocker
recover coded rows
Boring confound
generated labels and denominator loss
Verifier
Blind label validation plus exact denominator recomputation
Kill rule
Kill if 58.14% and 16.279% cannot be reproduced on validated labels.
Claim ceiling
Within-archive co-occurrence only.
Needs designQ-ONSET-GRAMMAR

Do validated hallmark events have reproducible onset order across experiential corpora and fiction controls?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-ONSET-GRAMMAR-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
OBERF/NDERF and fiction text exist
Blocker
context-aware extractor and gold labels
Boring confound
broad keyword position masquerading as event order
Verifier
Blinded event-identity precision gate before any order statistic
Kill rule
Kill if event precision fails or order matches fiction/source artifacts.
Claim ceiling
Validated corpus order only; no universal experiential sequence.
Needs designQ-ONTOLOGY-SAFETY

Can broad EM/time labels be replaced without losing valid distinctions?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-ONTOLOGY-SAFETY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Old labels and source-grounded rows exist
Blocker
gold annotations
Boring confound
polysemy and source-specific word meaning
Verifier
Manual adjudication benchmark comparing broad and split ontologies
Kill rule
Reject any replacement that fails held-out meaning discrimination.
Claim ceiling
Ontology-performance result only.
Needs designQ-SENSORY-REDUCTION

Does a sensory-reduction pattern survive matched Ganzfeld, hypnosis, dream, and sleep-paralysis controls?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-SENSORY-REDUCTION-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Several local corpora; protocol coverage uneven
Blocker
shared coding instrument
Boring confound
report purpose, length, and vocabulary leakage
Verifier
Matched human-validated labels with corpus-held-out contrasts
Kill rule
Kill if controls reproduce the same pattern after matching.
Claim ceiling
Corpus separation only; no sensory-gating mechanism.
Needs designQ-THREAT-PRESENCE-INVARIANCE

Are threat/presence labels measurement-invariant across source families?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-THREAT-PRESENCE-INVARIANCE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Candidate corpora and proposed benchmark exist
Blocker
gold set and label rubric
Boring confound
ordinary fear, entity nouns, genre conventions
Verifier
Blinded multi-source gold set with per-source precision/recall floors
Kill rule
Kill invariance if accuracy or meaning shifts materially by source.
Claim ceiling
Measurement result only; no entity interpretation.
Needs designQ-TIME-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE

What survives when the exploratory time measurement invariance pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-TIME-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-UAP-CRYPTID-ECOLOGY

What survives when the exploratory uap cryptid ecology pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-UAP-CRYPTID-ECOLOGY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-UAP-EVIDENCE-CHANNEL

What survives when the exploratory uap evidence channel pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-UAP-EVIDENCE-CHANNEL-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-UAP-REPORTING-ECOLOGY

What survives when the exploratory uap reporting ecology pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-UAP-REPORTING-ECOLOGY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Exploratory source artifacts exist
Blocker
validated labels and a frozen discriminant
Boring confound
source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
Verifier
Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
Kill rule
Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
Claim ceiling
Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-OBERF-TELLING-ORDER

Does the coarse telling-order gradient replicate in the independently collected NDERF corpus?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-OBERF-TELLING-ORDER-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Local NDERF exports (nderf_experiences.csv, nderf_reports.csv)
Blocker
second precision rater
Boring confound
narrative prompts and questionnaire structure shaping telling order
Verifier
Frozen extractor v2 + precision gate with a second rater + event-set-preserving permutation null
Kill rule
Kill if either endpoint fails p<=0.005 in both NDERF splits with gate-passing markers.
Claim ceiling
Telling order in one additional corpus; still not experienced order.
Needs designQ-GANZFELD-DB-STRUCTURE

Does the database-level structure (robust pooled excess, no decline, weak small-study signal) hold in the independent Tressoldi compilation?

1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23

TEST-GANZFELD-DB-STRUCTURE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
Available data
Local MA_GanzfeldESP.xlsx (Tressoldi set)
Blocker
none
Boring confound
overlapping study membership between compilations
Verifier
Same frozen audit statistics plus a study-overlap dedup join between the two files
Kill rule
Kill consistency if conclusions flip after overlap dedup at frozen thresholds.
Claim ceiling
Structure of compiled databases; upstream selection untested.