HUM-12 · The claim you will not make

End with an explicit non-claim list — what your computational result does not prove about mind, meaning, or authorship.

Culminating essay or portfolio from prior briefs. Non-claim template covering mind, meaning, and authorship at minimum. Red-team peer who tries to force an overclaim.

Soft non-claims (“more research needed”) that still imply the big thesis. Hiding the computational limits. Treating the list as boilerplate.

Final essay or capstone packet; non-claim list of at least eight specific refusals; red-team memo; short reflection on which refusal was hardest; clean bibliography with zero invented entries.

CT: refusal as scholarship. CR: specific refusals. CO: red-team peer. CM: non-claim list. CZ: readers who wanted a mind myth.

Humanities mentor grades the non-claim list as a first-class deliverable. Standing instruction: reject boilerplate and reject invented papers. School-supervised.

R1: one culminating claim set. R2: refusals tied to methods used. R3: what was shown named beside what was not. R4: temptation named. R5: list readable. R6: mind/meaning/authorship covered explicitly.

(a) Boilerplate humility paragraph. (b) Final flourish that claims consciousness anyway.

Lane A immediately, and a natural finale for this track. No verified credit claim.