Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: Last episode — the balanced-atom route. Three-line hinge lemma, kernel mass, ICAP. But that was one slot in a bigger machine. Today we assemble the full ECT — the emergent coercivity template — and stress-test it. What passes. What breaks.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Story
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: SB

Source anchors

• SB §17.3 Emergent coercivity template via sector compression (label: sec:ect-template)
• SB §17.3.1 Summary: slots and divergence consequence (label: sec:ect-summary)
• TH §11.4 Limitations and failure modes
• PL §8.3 Limitations and non-claims
• TH §9.3 Interpretation: learning as ``causal thickening''