Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: v1.2 (2026-03-11)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18970899
In cheap coherence environments, narrative can be produced faster than reality can answer back. This paper proposes a practical counterfeit detector: tests for distinguishing coherence-theater from contact. “Real” structures show costs, traces, irreversibility, repair, and time-bound consequence. Counterfeits substitute legibility for constraint, resonance for evidence, and performance for revision. The Diamond Core framework gives operational falsifiers—ways an apparently “deep” narrative fails when asked to bind: no cost, no trace, no closed options, no repair cycle, no time exposure. The goal is not cynicism but integrity: restoring answerability by tethering coherence to constraint.
cheap coherence; coherence; contact; falsifiers; integrity; consequence; trace; witness/trace; irreversibility; binding; repair; answerability; substitution; resonance; coherence-theater