Chapter 53: Bridge to Book VII: The ω-Germ Question and E₃

At the Life boundary, the ω-germ code raises a question that cannot be resolved diagrammatically—this is the principled science-faith boundary. Six export contracts are delivered to Book VII: the Life predicate (Distinction + SelfDesc), the 4+1 Life sectors, genotype/phenotype as τ-predicates, the ω-germ question, Life basins, and substrate-agnosticism. The τ-framework identifies exactly where science ends and philosophical reasoning begins—not a gap but a structural limit. Book VI closes where E₂’s self-modeling capacity demands treatment at E₃; Book VII opens at consciousness.