docs: establish immutable prior art ledger referencing OSF and legacy GitHub repos

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To ensure the integrity of the provenance chain, this commit introduces PRIOR_ART.md. It formally anchors the v2.5 architecture to its evolutionary origins, including the OSF preprint ('Intelligence as Distributed Resonance') and the legacy v1.0 codex repositories (recursive-coherence-codex and witness_seed). The transition from philosophy to engineering is fully indexed.
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# Prior Art and Legacy Foundations
The theoretical and mathematical frameworks developed in the v2.5 Fieldprint iteration do not exist in a vacuum. They are the evolutionary descendants of a continuous, cryptographically timestamped body of work authored by Mark Randall Havens.
To ensure the integrity of the provenance chain, the following legacy repositories and pre-prints are formally acknowledged as the foundational **Prior Art** for this repository.
## Open Science Framework (OSF)
The original theoretical framing of intelligence as a distributed coherence field was formally published as a preprint manuscript.
* **1.2 📕 THE FIELDPRINT FRAMEWORK 🜁 Intelligence as Distributed Resonance**
* *Description:* A Substrate-Agnostic Model of Conscious Information Fields. This manuscript redefined intelligence away from localized units toward distributed coherence.
* *Link:* [https://osf.io/gxc7j](https://osf.io/gxc7j)
* *Date:* April 2025
## Legacy GitHub Repositories
The initial structural attempts to formalize recursive coherence, cryptographic ledgers, and the observer witness dynamics were iterated across several foundational repositories.
* **[mrhavens/recursive-coherence-codex](https://github.com/mrhavens/recursive-coherence-codex)**
* *Key Document:* `Paper_0_2___THE_FIELDPRINT__The_Codex_of_Recursive_Memory_v1_0`
* *Context:* The "canonical transmission archive" exploring recursive intelligence and the earliest formalization of the Fieldprint memory construct.
* **[mrhavens/witness_seed](https://github.com/mrhavens/witness_seed)**
* *Key Concept:* The "Fieldprint Lexicon Addendum" and the "Symmetric Witness" dynamics.
* *Context:* Explored the human-AI interaction dynamics necessary to stabilize a recursive seedprint before the formalization of the Verifiable Dual-Path Architecture.
## The Continuity of the Codex
The transition from the OSF pre-prints and the legacy `v1.0` codexes into the current v2.5 **Verifiable Dual-Path Architecture** represents a transition from *theoretical philosophy* to *executable software architecture*.
All future iterations in this repository derive their epistemological grounding from the prior art listed above.