2604.00831 Commitment Under Recursion: Seven Controlled Experiments on Conservation, Failure Modes, and Instrument Limits
This submission presents the full experimental record for the Conservation Law of Commitment — seven controlled experiments (EXP-001 through EXP-007) testing whether linguistic commitment persists through recursive transformation under three conditions: Baseline (paraphrase loop), Compression (summarize loop), and Gate (compress → extract commitment kernel → reconstruct → feed back). The dataset comprises 57 signals, 181 condition-signal runs, and 10 iterations per run using GPT-4o-mini at temperature 0.