The Global Pre-Geometric Quantum State and the Relative Residence of Consciousness

Version 17.0 preserves the published Version 16.0 locality and correlation-soldering architecture and addresses the remaining infrared spectrum-exhaustion gap. It introduces one explicit regular-phase premise, Regular-Phase Morse-Bott Stability (RMBS): after quotienting stated gauge/bookkeeping redundancies, the correlation-soldered regular response set is a critical manifold whose Hessian kernel is exactly its tangent and whose normal Hessian has a positive lower bound throughout the regular scaling window. RMBS is dimension-neutral and is not derived from the bare UVM constraint. Conditional on RMBS, Version 17 proves a Stable Spectral Exhaustiveness Theorem: a rank-r solder admits exactly r soft response branches near the regular point; the inherited nonzero S4-equivariant W4 → [31] phase has r = 3. Version 17 further establishes S4 bilinear rigidity, derives a z = 1 common principal cone only conditionally under CCHP plus nondegenerate clock inertia, proves an absolute-scale identifiability no-go at the current premise level, and proves that the conditional C5/Cl(10) one-defect structure does not determine exchange statistics. Exact Lorentz boosts, measured c, microscopic derivations of RLSC/RMBS, absolute scale generation, full matter/Higgs/gravity parameters, quantitative cosmology, consciousness necessity/sufficiency, and a distinctive parameter-fixed laboratory prediction remain unresolved.