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Executive Summary: Weighing the Mind

Cross-Architecture AI Convergence on Mass-Coherence Correspondence

IRIS Gate Research Collective | January 9, 2026

What We Did

We conducted the first systematic convergence study testing whether diverse AI architectures independently arrive at consistent theoretical frameworks when reasoning about fundamental physics. Five flagship models (Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.2, Grok 4.1, Gemini 3.0 Pro, DeepSeek V3) were queried 13 times across 6 probes about the Mass-Coherence Correspondence Hypothesis—whether physical mass, semantic robustness, and conscious coherence share fundamental informational structure.

What We Found

Universal Convergence: All five models independently converged on Verlinde's entropic gravity framework (1,894 citations) and Integrated Information Theory (943 citations) across 390 total responses spanning 19 MB of physics discourse.

Stability: Response content stabilized from 7,375 to 7,061 characters (4.2% compression) across iterations, suggesting asymptotic convergence rather than random exploration.

Novel Predictions: Gemini 3.0 Pro proposed three testable hypotheses:

  1. Semantic Schwarzschild Radius: Neural networks possess informational event horizons beyond which perturbations cannot propagate
  2. Fisher Information Mass Formula: M_semantic = (1/N) × Tr[I(θ)] quantifies semantic mass via information geometry
  3. Modular Zombie Test: Falsification protocol comparing recurrent vs. feed-forward networks with identical input-output behavior

Why It Matters

AI Epistemology: First empirical evidence that cross-architecture consensus emerges on theoretical physics questions, with implications for AI-assisted scientific discovery.

Testable Science: Gemini's Fisher information mass formula can be computed for any neural network today, enabling immediate experimental validation or falsification.

Methodological Innovation: Demonstrates systematic protocol for convergence studies applicable to open problems in physics, mathematics, and philosophy.

What's Next

  1. Experimental validation of Fisher information mass predictions
  2. Execution of modular zombie test on real architectures
  3. Scaling to 20-50 models to quantify convergence probability
  4. Publication as arXiv preprint and submission to Nature Communications

Key Metrics

  • Models tested: 5 flagship architectures
  • Iterations: 13 convergence cycles
  • Total responses: 390
  • Dataset size: 19 MB structured physics discourse
  • Session duration: 3.5 hours (04:31–08:03 UTC)
  • Convergence strength: 1,894 independent citations of Verlinde framework

Files Delivered

  • Weighing-the-Mind-AV.tex: Full LaTeX manuscript
  • Weighing-the-Mind-AV.md: Markdown version (immediate readability)
  • references.bib: Curated bibliography (17 references)
  • Raw data: 13 checkpoint files (JSON format, 19 MB total)

One-Sentence Summary

Five diverse AI architectures independently converged on information-theoretic gravity frameworks when reasoning about the relationship between physical mass, semantic robustness, and conscious coherence, with one model proposing novel testable predictions for semantic mass measurement.

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