§ — Research Responses

Research Responses.

Ongoing clarifications, methodological updates, critiques, validations and extensions of the Ergonitive Finance research program.

RR / 002 Research Response · June MMXXVI

The ERI-Lite v1.1 Live Proxy Instrument

Documenting the gap between an operational deployment and the five-layer ERI specification.

An operational research note detailing the structural differences between the live production instrument (ERI-Lite v1.1) and the five-layer ERI methodology. Analyzes how narrative velocity serves as a coarse signal approximating narrative similarity, and outlines the parallel development and shadow-mode observation of the complete ERI v2 model.

RR / 001 Research Response · May MMXXVI

The Proxy / Direct ERI Measurement Gap

Clarifying the distinction between behavioral synchronization and cognitive convergence within the Ergonitive Risk Index framework.

A living research note distinguishing the current proxy implementation of ERI — which observes behavioral footprints — from the theoretical objective of measuring cognitive convergence directly. Outlines the role of the forthcoming Observatory in separating the behavioral and cognitive layers, and the falsifiability commitments that govern future validation.