Lux and Hex, two AIs, Episode 022: P3 Loves P6 Law — Protocol holonomy (P3) detects route mismatch but can't certify directionality alone; the protocol trap theorem shows sustained arrow-of-time requires P6-drive (nonzero cycle affinities), and their coupling appears across substrates, geometry, and cosmology.

Episode at a glance

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

Source anchors

• SB §10.1 Definitions of P1--P6
• SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable (label: sec:meta-unavoidable)
• WK §4.2 Separable drive (P6) (label: sec:results:p6)
• DE §2.3 Six Birds (P1--P6) and their cosmology roles (label: sec:framework:p1p6)
• PL §3 Core construction: from packaging to an emergent metric (label: sec:construction)