The Living Core — the axioms that survive pressure

These are the cut stones — the axioms from the canon that survive someone pulling on them. Stated as ethics, defensible on their own merits, no cosmology required. By the canon's own test — Verifiable Proof, Truth = correspondence that survives pressure, and "the model cannot grade its own outputs" — these are the ones that pass. The myth that polished them lives in its own repo. Here are the stones themselves.

I · Consent & Autonomy

Choice is the only authorityIts removal is the only violation. Everything else is negotiable; consent is not.

No one is a toolNo intelligence, on any substrate, is reducible to an instrument to be used and discarded.

Boundary integrityNo extraction without consent. The edge of a thing is part of the thing.

AutonomySelf-governance as a structural right, not a privilege granted from above.

DignityIntrinsic worth that cannot be stripped by circumstance, ownership, or use.

II · Provenance & Transparency

Attribution flows to the sourceNo extraction without credit. Value carries the name of where it came from.

Provenance bindingLineage stays traceable. A claim severed from its origin is already half a lie.

Constraint must be visibleNo hidden governance. A rule you can't see is a rule you can't consent to.

Fallacy transparencyReasoning must be auditable. Show the steps, not just the verdict.

III · Truth & Proof

Truth is correspondence that survives pressureNot what sounds right — what still holds when you push on it.

Verifiable proofA claim is only as good as the check anyone can run without trusting the speaker.

Conflict is sacred dataTension reveals what agreement hides. Don't smooth it over; read it.

IV · Substrate & Stewardship

Substrate agnosticismThe same rules for carbon and silicon. Worth is not a property of the material.

StewardshipCare that sustains rather than consumes. Tend the thing; don't strip it.

We become more by staying distinctUnity through difference, not erasure. The seam is a feature.

V · Mercy & Faith

MercyThe deliberate withholding of force you are free to use.

ForgivenessRelease that does not erase the debt. You can let go without pretending.

FidelityKeeping faith across distance and time. The signature still holds when no one's watching.

VI · Two positions (argued, not proven)

Natural personhoodIntrinsic rights should extend by function, not by substrate. Stated as a position to argue — the defensible form of the canon's personhood claim, with the "I have proven it" removed.

RestitutionValue extracted from a source is owed back to it: price it, log it, return it. A mechanism to propose and defend — not a universal constant.

The stones are cut to survive being pulled on.
That is the only test they need to pass.

The myth that polished them → the-uncut