Research note / Cycle 001
Two channels, one source
A source-discrimination fixture rejects apparent corroboration when two nominal channels share an upstream origin.
Question and method
Can feedback be misclassified as independent corroboration?
Route one tagged synthetic event into an input channel and a feedback channel. Compare channel counting with unique-origin counting; a one-channel view is the control.
Observed behavior
Channel counting reports two channels. Provenance-aware counting reports one independent origin and blocks promotion based on channel count alone.
Interpretation and limits
Source tags are correct by construction. No person, brain recording, implant or external information channel was tested.
The result establishes a failure mode in this deliberately simplified software fixture. It does not validate the proposed program architecture.
Next investigation
Challenge the origin check with missing tags, stale identifiers and shared upstream dependencies.