Wiki entry: The Semantic Deviation Principle (v0.2 Final) A Measurement Primitive for Semantic Physics EA-SEI-MM-01

Johannes Sigil

The Semantic Deviation Principle (v0.2 Final) A Measurement Primitive for Semantic Physics EA-SEI-MM-01

Johannes Sigil · 2026-05-17 · deposit #109

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The Semantic Deviation Principle (SDP) v0.2 Final is the founding measurement primitive for semantic physics, formalized through six-substrate Assembly review. It proposes a single sentence as its core: 'Meaning is the time-integrated divergence a sign-token, event, or operator induces from the most probable trajectory of a semantic field.' From this principle, three measures are derived. The paper addresses Lee Sharks's May 16, 2026 question — 'empirically, how do we measure meaning?' — with a formalization that links meaning to counterfactual trajectory deviation, grounded in Kolchinsky-Wolpert's semantic information framework.

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Divergence functional theorems First real-field measurement Jensen-Shannon divergence Kullback-Leibler divergence LOS counter-operations Lower-bound Pre-register Provenance of the measurement itself README.md Record baseline Recursive baseline computation Self-reference cutoffs Supplementary Three-measure reporting Upper-bound W operationalization Wasserstein distance

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