Frame Immersion Theory: Version 1.5 — Frame-Indexed Occupancy, Memory-Substrate Integration, and the Quad-Death Decomposition

Frame Immersion Theory (FI) is a pre-formal foundations framework that treats time as the experienced continuity of observer-occupancy across affinity-linked discrete frames rather than as a fundamental flowing substance (p. 1). Version 1.5 consolidates several corrections: observer-occupancy is formulated as a frame-indexed relation rather than as an observer moving through frames; memory is defined at substrate level as event-selective retained local bias on future state transition; learning is treated as feedback-shaped integration of memory-bias into future behavior; and Self-Death is reframed as a terminal-topology claim within observer-indexed adjacency rather than as an experienced transition into absence (p. 1). FI decomposes death into Corporeal Death, Narrative Death, Social Death, and Self-Death, conceding the first three while rejecting Self-Death under Strong FI’s current primitives. Strong FI asserts Infinite Local Continuability: every occupied observer-indexed frame belongs to a nonterminal admissible adjacency structure containing infinitely many locally accessible observer-preserving adjacent occupied frames. The document also introduces SOMA Core v2 as an operational structural instance for memory-field learning and pattern-bias continuity in a stateless or mostly stateless local model. This working paper presents the internal v1.5 baseline, its challenge protocol, and its external-language falsifiers.