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What establishes the domains within which manifestation is jointly present and outside which it is absent?

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 "artifact_type": "argument_fabric_dossier",
 "question_id": "q:perspectival-partition",
 "question": "What establishes the domains within which manifestation is jointly present and outside which it is absent?",
 "why_it_matters": "Every theory of consciousness — naturalist, Pratyabhijñā, Buddhist, Nyāya, neutral monist — converges on the same missing object: Λ, the law that maps manifestation or organization into exclusive phenomenal domains. The universalization debate was a special case of this deeper problem.",
 "status": "live_crux",
 "resolution_level": "fundamental",
 "parent_questions": [
  "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
  "q:utpaladeva-universalization-validity"
 ],
 "candidate_explanations": [
  {
   "candidate_id": "cand:naturalist-emergent",
   "tradition_scope": "western_phi_neuroscience",
   "name": "Naturalist: organization → Λ → domain",
   "best_case": "Recurrent integration, counterfactual depth, global availability and causal autonomy at a specific scale produce a maximally integrated phenomenal domain. IIT's exclusion axiom is the closest attempt.",
   "hard_to_vary_core": [
    "Phenomenal domains correlate with physical organization",
    "Complexity and integration are necessary conditions"
   ],
   "current_problems": [
    "Why is the relevant organization manifest rather than merely organized?",
    "No settled criterion selects the subject scale"
   ],
   "falsifiers": [
    {
     "type": "empirical",
     "condition": "Show that two systems with identical integration/complexity profiles have different phenomenal structures, or that one system produces two non-overlapping phenomenal fields.",
     "status": "untested"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "candidate_id": "cand:siva-decombination",
   "tradition_scope": "trika_pratyabhijna",
   "name": "Pratyabhijñā: C∞ → Λ → Dᵢ via Māyā/kañcukas",
   "best_case": "Universal manifest capacity contracts into local exclusion profiles through the five kañcukas. Finite subjects are locally exclusive articulations of unrestricted consciousness.",
   "hard_to_vary_core": [
    "Manifestation is prior to organization",
    "Finite subjects are not independent substances"
   ],
   "current_problems": [
    "Why does unrestricted manifestation produce genuinely private exclusion?",
    "Contraction specifies what must be explained, not how it occurs"
   ],
   "falsifiers": [
    {
     "type": "prasanga",
     "condition": "Show that a system with no kañcuka-like restrictions nevertheless possesses a phenomenal domain, or that kañcuka restriction alone fails to produce exclusivity.",
     "status": "untested"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "candidate_id": "cand:buddhist-stream",
   "tradition_scope": "dharmakirti_buddhist",
   "name": "Buddhist: reflexive moments → causal stream → conventional domain",
   "best_case": "Each cognition is reflexively manifest. Causal continuity, memory traces and affective appropriation produce conventionally individuated streams. No further owner required.",
   "hard_to_vary_core": [
    "Reflexivity does not entail a subject",
    "Continuity can be causal without numerical identity"
   ],
   "current_problems": [
    "Why do reflexive moments form one co-conscious field rather than isolated atoms?",
    "Conventional ownership does not explain manifestness across a stream"
   ],
   "falsifiers": [
    {
     "type": "prasanga",
     "condition": "Show that causal continuity between non-reflexive information states produces the same phenomenal features as a conscious stream.",
     "status": "untested"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "candidate_id": "cand:nyaya-plural-substances",
   "tradition_scope": "nyaya",
   "name": "Nyāya: substance-bearer → Λ → domain",
   "best_case": "Cognitive qualities inhere in an enduring individual self. Co-presence is explained by common inherence in one substance. Privacy is explained by different substances.",
   "hard_to_vary_core": [
    "Co-presence requires a common bearer",
    "Plur
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