Testing Whether Six Interrogative Functions Form a Minimal Basis for Resolving Primitive State-of-Affairs Uncertainty in Nonlinguistic Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems

This preregistration documents Protocol 8 of the Quantum Inquiry MARL Ethics Series. It tests whether six nonlinguistic functional channels corresponding to identity (WHO), content (WHAT), location or context (WHERE), time (WHEN), process (HOW), and causal or reward-ground structure (WHY) form a minimal basis for resolving primitive state-of-affairs uncertainty in nonlinguistic multi-agent reinforcement learning systems. The study operationalizes the empirical arm of a formal claim established in Tisler (2026, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20074811). Five hypotheses are preregistered: individual necessity (H1), nonredundancy and independence of ablation signatures (H2), joint exhaustiveness (H3), minimality (H4), and substrate independence (H5, exploratory). At time of deposit, computational infrastructure is not yet available to execute the design. The preregistration is deposited to establish priority and invite collaboration.