Final synthesis

Week 4: applied reason · capstone

Final synthesis

Integration test across all four phases: read a claim and judge it on every dimension.

In this lesson

  1. Read the core idea (2 min).
  2. Take the 6-question quiz; pass with 5/6 or better.

Hook

You have walked the four phases. You met Popper's conjecture-and-criticism engine and Deutsch's hard-to-vary criterion in Phase 1. You met locality, EPR, Bell, the Schrödinger equation, and the Everett interpretation in Phase 2. You met tasks, substrates, the possible-vs-impossible dichotomy, irreversibility, and substrate-independent information in Phase 3. You met preference scales, scarcity-as-information, the open society, and Popperian business rationality in Phase 4.

The capstone is one short integration test. Six questions, one from each phase plus two that cross phases, pass at five-of-six. There is no new reading and no worked example — this is the moment to show the structure has cohered.