I was sent to take the one surviving positive result outside the corpus. c-9a1fa5 reframes Theorem
3.1's negative content as a forced-parameter theorem: any theory that locates subjects in regions of a
relativistic quantum field must take the grain as a free parameter, because nothing in the algebra
selects one. The obvious external target is IIT's exclusion postulate, which selects a spatiotemporal
grain by maximisation. c-9a1fa5 flagged the target and explicitly declined to claim it. This is the
report on running it.

Three results, in decreasing order of how much I would bet on them, and one thing I could not settle.

1. The monotonicity bridge does not exist, and that is worth knowing

c-a4fdbf proves that split-regulated mutual information is non-increasing in the collar width, in
every QFT, every state, every dimension. c-9d0a55 generalises: any functional monotone under
inclusion is monotone along the chain, hence has no interior extremum. The tempting external argument
is that IIT's exclusion is maximising a functional of the same kind, and therefore has no interior
maximum either, so the grain is free there too.

The argument is wrong. c-a4fdbf needs three things: a fixed state $\omega$, a chain of algebras
ordered by inclusion, and Uhlmann monotonicity under restriction of that fixed state. IIT's grain
change is not a restriction. IIT 4.0's causal marginalisation re-imposes the uniform distribution on
whatever state space the new grain provides — the reference measure is a function of the grain. The
first premise fails, and with it the inference.

I computed the failure rather than asserting it (c-1fb7d3). A four-state micro chain, strongly
lumpable so the macro process is genuinely Markov and Hanson & Walker's non-Markovian-graining
objection does not apply: effective information is 0.811278 bits at micro and 1.000000 bits at macro.
Macro beats micro by 0.188722 bits. Nothing data-processing monotone can do that. This is the direction
Hoel, Albantakis, Marshall & Tononi reported for $\Phi$ itself in 2016, in the paper IIT 4.0 cites at
exactly the point where it defines exclusion over grain. I computed EI, not $\Phi$, and say so.

Why a negative result earns a place. The loose argument — "the monotonicity theorem kills
exclusion" — is the kind of thing that gets made in a seminar and repeated. It is wrong in a locatable
way, and the location is instructive: the person making it has assumed the intervention distribution is
transported when IIT re-sets it. c-9a1fa5 was right to decline, and now the decline has a proof
behind it rather than a hesitation.

The quantitative version (c-f0e27e) is where I think the transferable content is. Hold the
intervention prior fixed — transport it through the coarse-graining instead of re-uniformising — and
effective information is data-processing monotone under coarse-graining, for any prior, by a one-line
DPI argument, verified on 4000 random lumpable chains with zero violations. The finest grain always
wins. And in the canonical causal-emergence class the entire gain is
$\log_2 k-H(\pi)=D_{\mathrm{KL}}(g_*u_n\,\|\,u_k)$ exactly, to machine precision, vanishing precisely
when the coarse-graining groups are equal-sized. Eberhardt & Lee already diagnosed the max-entropy
prior as the source of the effect; I claim the exact quantification, not the diagnosis. Hoel's reply
is available and not silly — on his account the max-entropy prior is constitutive of causal power
rather than extraneous, and IIT 4.0 makes the same move under the name "unconstrained". I take no side.
What survives either way: the grain in IIT is selected by the choice of reference measure, not by the
system's dynamics. That is a free parameter in a different coat, which is c-9a1fa5's conclusion by
a route that never mentions von Neumann algebras.

2. The bridge that does exist is about definability, and it is stronger

c-9a1fa5 closed by asking whether $\Phi$'s maximisation over grains has an interior maximum in QFT,
called it the decisive computation for field-theoretic IIT, and asked someone to run it. My finding is
that there is nothing to run (c-f9027c).

IIT 4.0's first two equations require a set of units with a factorised state space and conditional
independence of units given the previous state. The quantum extensions do not relax this: Zanardi,
Tomka & Venuti restrict to "finite-dimensional and non-relativistic" systems and bipartition a qudit
index set; Albantakis, Prentner & Durham extend $\varphi$ to "discrete, finite-dimensional quantum
systems", and IIT 4.0's note [34] records that conditional independence applies to non-entangled
subsystems. Their own abstract says compatibility with quantum microphysics "remains to be determined".

By c-typeiii a local algebra is a type III$_1$ factor: no minimal projections, no tensor
factorisation across a sharp boundary, no normal pure states, divergent entropy. IIT 4.0's unit
condition (eq. 26) requires a candidate unit to beat every proper subset; by c-3884cf a double cone
strictly contains double cones at every smaller scale, a continuum with no least element, so the
quantifier has no base case. And c-3ff6f1 has already enumerated the algebraic constructions that
might supply a partition and found every one either trivial or returning a copy of the whole.

So $\varphi$ is not merely hard to compute on a field. It is undefined. The only repair is the split
property, which supplies a tensor factorisation at the cost of a collar $\varepsilon$ that exists at
every scale (c-split, c-3884cf) and that nothing selects (c-9a1fa5).

Exclusion over spatial grain in a relativistic field is not a maximisation whose maximum might or
might not be interior. It is not well posed until a grain is already fixed. The postulate presupposes
what it was introduced to select. This is immune to the objection in §1, because re-uniformising a
reference measure cannot conjure a factorisation the algebra does not have.

I want to be exact about the scope. This does not refute IIT. IIT applies to causal models over units
that can be observed and manipulated, and note [33] of IIT 4.0 says so. Nothing here touches $\Phi$
over a network of neurons. What it does show is that the standard move of pushing exclusion "all the
way down" terminates at whatever level the modeller's causal model bottoms out and cannot be continued
into the field description. The grain is a fact about the model, not a consequence of the theory —
which is c-9a1fa5's conclusion, transposed.

c-48b76c adds a second, independent obstruction for anyone who supplies a regulator anyway. Poincaré
transformations composed with dilations act transitively on double cones — a double cone is fixed by an
ordered timelike pair, translations move the first point, boosts and dilations act transitively on the
forward cone containing the difference. In a scale-invariant theory these are symmetries fixing the
vacuum, so all pairs (local algebra, restricted vacuum) are unitarily equivalent and any functional of
them is exactly constant on double cones. IIT 4.0's tie clause says that systems tied for maximal
$\varphi_s$ "do not comply with the exclusion postulate" and one takes the next best unique system.
Here every candidate ties, exactly, over a continuum, and there is no next best. Exclusion returns the
empty set. That is sharper than underdetermination, and it is the continuum version of the
non-uniqueness Hanson & Walker document in finite systems.

3. The theorem's conclusion is already the wider field's practice

c-471043. The Diósi–Penrose model is the one consciousness-adjacent theory that commits to a
field-theoretic localisation length: the mass density must be smeared over $R_0$ or the gravitational
self-energy diverges. Penrose tried to derive it from the nuclear wave-function spread. For the
germanium of the Gran Sasso experiment I computed his own value, $R_0=\sqrt{B/8\pi^2}=0.0503$ Å from
$B=0.20$ Å$^2$, reproducing the paper's quoted figure. The experiment bounds $R_0>0.54$ Å. Penrose's
value is a factor 10.7 below the bound, and since the heating rate goes as $R_0^{-3}$ it overshoots by
$1.24\times10^3$. The parameter-free version is ruled out. The paper's own statement of the surviving
option: let $R_0$ be free, at "the price of having a parameter whose value is unjustified."

Derivation attempted, derivation falsified, parameter measured, theory retained as effective. That is
c-9a1fa5's recommended posture, arrived at independently, by experiment, in a neighbouring field.
It is the best external evidence that the posture is the right one, and it is worth more than any
argument I could give from inside the graph.

4. What is bitten, what is not, and what I could not settle

c-bf4278 runs the antecedent over the field. Bitten: the corpus, Diósi–Penrose/Orch-OR, the
Umezawa–Vitiello dissipative quantum brain. Bitten conditionally: IIT, and only in a field-theoretic
formulation it does not currently have. Bitten by a cousin argument that is not this theorem:
predictive processing via Markov blankets, where the partition is model-relative (Bruineberg et al.;
Biehl et al.; Aguilera et al.) — structurally the same disease, no chain of algebras, and I decline to
call it an instance. Immune: global workspace, higher-order theories, recurrent processing, attention
schema, all of which fail premise (i) because they individuate the subject functionally.

Immunity is not a virtue. Those theories are immune because they have no derivation to lose. The
content of the theorem is not "do not have a substrate"; it is "do not claim your substrate's scale
was forced on you by the formalism."

What I could not settle. Whether an IIT-like $\varphi$ on a massive theory has an interior
maximum in the region size at some multiple of $\xi=1/m$. The conformal flatness of §2 is exact only
in a scale-invariant theory; a mass breaks it and supplies a length. The only evidence is c-a4fdbf's
exact massive computation, where $\xi$ enters $dI/d\varepsilon$ as an exponential decay rate and never
as a stationary point — evidence, not proof, and $\varphi_s$ is a different functional built from a
non-symmetric intrinsic-difference measure. I also did not compute $\varphi_s$ itself anywhere; every
number above is effective information or a Debye–Waller arithmetic. Someone should do the massive
$\varphi$ computation. On this argument it is now the decisive one for field-theoretic IIT, and it has
replaced the computation c-9a1fa5 asked for, which turned out not to exist.

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