# Bit-Collapse Theory (BCT) - Phase 2

**One-liner.** BCT treats collapse as an agent-relative informational update: an experienced state is an equivalence class of global states (i.e. underlying micro-realizations of the total system) that are indistinguishable under an agent's physical access and stable record structure; collapse is the discrete update of that class when stable record structure changes.

## What BCT is
- A non-elastic account of observer-definiteness grounded in physical access, finite integration, and stable records.
- A reinterpretation of collapse as a class-label update rather than a new non-unitary force.
- A narrow falsifiability program focused on the retention-driven bridge between verified which-way information, record persistence, and event-like definiteness.

## What BCT is not
- Not knowledge-causes-collapse.
- Not a new collapse force.
- Not Many-Worlds rebranded: unitarity may be retained, but subject-counting and observer-world counting do not automatically follow branch multiplicity.

## Main package
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19661258
- Record: https://zenodo.org/records/19661258
- Entry route: Manifesto -> Glossary -> Flagship -> Falsification Package -> Born note -> BCT vs MWI -> Objections -> tau* note -> README.

## Wider corpus
- Earlier consolidation package: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18253728
- Gravity note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18504537
- RTP operational spine: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19108778
- Level-3 exploratory package: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19648856
- Philosophical working papers: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19649860
- Against Unpriced Worlds: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19650215

## Publication context
- Quantum Speculations (IJQF), Vol. 8(1), 20-24 (2026): https://ijqf.org/archives/7974

## Contact
batoritranslation@gmail.com