What Negative Results Would Mean

What Negative Results Would Mean

If the alignment fails—if structure does not predict translated language, if perturbations do not propagate, if the framework has no purchase outside human systems—then the theory requires revision.

Perhaps affect is human-specific after all. Perhaps the geometric structure is necessary but not sufficient. Perhaps the dimensions are wrong. Perhaps the identity thesis is false.

Negative results would be informative. They would tell us where the theory breaks. They would constrain the space of viable alternatives. This is what empirical tests do.