Information Provenance and Conservative Enrichment in Prospective Health

Within a declared five-state forest system, the study compares a context-indexed history encoding with a permissive candidate-history encoding constrained by an explicit lawfulness predicate. The two encode the same lawful histories and preserve viable continuations, collected capacity, and Health.

An exhaustive information-provenance census distinguishes representational erasure from distinctions that remain available in capacity but are unused by the current Health language. Detailed capacity distinguishes five states, original capacity four classes, and declared Health three. Exact collapse classifications identify where each distinction is lost.

A domain-neutral conservative-capacity-refinement lemma proves preservation of established Health judgments when a richer observer projects exactly to an established capacity and the existing adequacy is pulled back through that projection. A strict forest instance recovers the adaptation/recovery distinction while preserving earlier judgments. These results concern set-valued attained responses under fixed declared semantics; stochastic measure and ecological calibration require additional evidence.