# Layer Model Reconciliation Three files define the social layer axis, two agree exactly, and the third is a differently-shaped object that was forked rather than reconciled. - `logos_combined_v01.json#structural.axes.scale` is canonical: `self, dyad, small_group, local_network, institution, global`. - `structural_operator.py:23` `VALID_SCALES` holds the same six values and its comment cites combined as the canonical source. - `logos_social_v01.json` holds seven sized layers: `person(1), intimate(5), sympathy_group(15), village(150), culture(500), religion(null), society(1500)`. - Combined calls its layers "coordinate points, not social labels" and gives scale six positions alongside six sibling axes — density, persistence, authority, transmission, memory_channel, language_mode. - Social calls its layers containers: each carries signify coordinates, a first-class `operators` reference, and an `_inferences` array for accumulating evidence. - The fork is therefore structural before it is nominal — one file makes a layer a coordinate, the other makes it a container. - Four rungs correspond without dispute: `person`/`self`, `sympathy_group`/`small_group`, `village`/`local_network`, and the ordering from self outward. - `intimate(5)` and `dyad(2)` occupy the same rung at different sizes, which is an unreconciled numeric discrepancy, not a disagreement about what the rung is. - Dunbar's 50 layer appears in neither file, so both ladders skip a documented rung of the series they cite. - `religion` is agreed non-dimensional by both files: social records `size: null` with the note "no size bound — crosses Dunbar frame", and structural_operator lists it among cross-cutting overlays. - `culture(500)` and `society(1500)` are the genuine conflict: sized layers in social, cross-cutting overlays in structural_operator's prompt. - `family` exists only in structural_operator, as an overlay spanning self through small_group, and has no entry in the social schema. - Social stakes a falsifiable claim at `culture`: "phase transition — cooperative.status flips to violated, resonance becomes illusion; status quo operator begins here". - Social stakes a second at `society`: "status quo operator fully operational here — archive transmission, sovereign authority, cooperative violated". - Those two notes make the culture-versus-overlay question empirical rather than editorial, because they predict where reading behaviour changes on the ladder. - The field cannot currently test either claim: all three canonical field tellings read `institution`, so no case spans the 150-to-500 boundary where the predicted transition sits. - `cross_scale.py` consumes the combined/operator six and never reads the social seven, so the store's link structure rests entirely on the canonical axis. - The social schema's `_inferences` arrays are empty at all seven layers and no code writes to them, so the container model has never been exercised. - Reconciling the four agreed rungs changes no stored coordinate, because the operator already writes only canonical values and coerces anything else to null. - Changing `intimate` to 2 or `dyad` to 5 would alter the instrument and require re-reading the field, so it is deferred rather than settled here. - Deciding culture and society requires cases selected to span the 500 boundary, which is corpus work gated on the unjudged blind round-trip in `experiments/round_trip/`. - This document records the mapping so the two models stop drifting silently; it resolves nothing that needs evidence. ## Mapping | social schema | size | canonical axis | status | |---|---|---|---| | person | 1 | self | agreed | | intimate | 5 | dyad | same rung, size differs (2 vs 5) | | — | 50 | — | Dunbar rung absent from both | | sympathy_group | 15 | small_group | agreed | | village | 150 | local_network | agreed | | culture | 500 | *overlay in operator* | OPEN — layer or overlay | | religion | null | *overlay in operator* | agreed non-dimensional | | society | 1500 | *overlay in operator* | OPEN — layer or overlay | | — | — | institution | form-named, unsized, no social counterpart | | — | — | global | form-named, unsized, no social counterpart | | — | — | family | overlay in operator only, absent from social |