A working UVLM research release for split-knowledge evaluation, provenance, red teaming, correction, and coordinated disclosure, without publishing dangerous content.

This document is a preprint candidate prepared for public circulation and independent scholarly review. It is not peer reviewed, journal accepted, or empirically validated as a complete theory. Its purpose is to expose a coherent conceptual framework, its evidence base, its formal assumptions, its proposed tests, and its limitations to criticism.

The paper expands the published public article Observer-Conditioned Coherence: How Perturbation Becomes Information, Meaning, and Action-Guiding Order. It preserves that article as the public baseline and identifies every substantive evolution of the thesis rather than silently replacing it.