# Cross-Ontology Council

Place competing explanations in dialogue without treating uncertainty as failure.

## Positions

1. **Shared Observation:** What must every model explain?
   - Eligible classes: events, artifacts, states
2. **Material Model:** What physical explanation is strongest?
   - Eligible classes: technologies, hypotheses
3. **Psychosocial Model:** What cultural or psychological dynamics matter?
   - Eligible classes: hypotheses, states, systems
4. **Experiential Model:** What does first-person report contribute?
   - Eligible classes: states, beings
5. **Mythic Model:** What durable story shape organizes the experience?
   - Eligible classes: myths, cosmologies
6. **Political Model:** Who gains authority from each explanation?
   - Eligible classes: factions, systems, programs
7. **Fictional Rehearsal:** Where has culture rehearsed this possibility?
   - Eligible classes: myths, worlds, artifacts
8. **Disconfirmation:** What observation would weaken the favored model?
   - Eligible classes: forces, hypotheses, programs
9. **Provisional Synthesis:** What can be acted upon before ontology is settled?
   - Eligible classes: forces, events, systems

## Reading Contract

Read Gift, Shadow, and Threshold; expose the evidence state; show only graph relationships that actually exist; end with guidance, integration, and a question. Use a seed for repeatability.
