Quantitative Tests of the Universal Dissipative Process Sequence

A sixteen-step cyclic sequence has been proposed as a universal internal geometry for dissipative processes, previously mapped qualitatively across twenty systems in six scientific domains with 88.8% clean correspondence (van der Klein, 2026). This paper presents two quantitative tests of the sequence against published molecular data: (1) erythropoiesis, the differentiation of haematopoietic stem cells into mature red blood cells, and (2) the adaptive immune response to viral infection. Both tests score 14/16 (87.5%) clean, with the two partial scores occurring at exactly positions 14 and 15 (the conservation regime), consistent with the coupled feedback degeneracy observed in all previously mapped systems. All molecular events cited are from published, peer-reviewed experiments by researchers with no knowledge of the framework. The irreversible threshold (position 4), encounter-dependent information production (position 10), and the conservation feedback structure (positions 14–15) are confirmed in both systems with specific, measurable molecular markers. The quantitative mapping of the immune response confirms, without modification, the position assignments from the original qualitative mapping.