Provenance Agnosticism

Canonical definition

Provenance Agnosticism is the result that the Knowledge Patch is agnostic as to how a correct prior is adopted: the architecture weights the Salience computation by the prior's posterior regardless of provenance, so a prior adopted through repeated social exposure attenuates the loop identically to one reasoned into place. The result follows from Axiom 8 (Bayesian updating is content-agnostic), from the Belief Register's storage of posteriors and salience-conditioning templates without provenance records, and from the Minimum Installation Condition's magnitude clause, which reads whatever the Belief Register delivers. Adoption route affects durability, not operation: a prior not decohered against the Individual's own architecture is more exposed to social displacement, but conditions the Observer identically while held. The consequence is a strengthening of the framework: the Patch is transmissible by ordinary mimetic and Bayesian means, so realistic partial uptake does not require a population of careful reasoners, and the Patch can propagate through the very social-proof channel it is designed to quiet.