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High Priority

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Open Unknowns (4)

Unknown The degree to which longevity and healthspan interventions validated in model organisms quantitatively predict human-relevant outcomes remains unsettled across intervention classes u-aging-interventions-translatability
Unknown What determines whether amyloid-beta accumulation in an individual brain follows a slow, decades-long trajectory versus rapid escalation to clinical Alzheimer's disease u-amyloid-progression-trajectory
Unknown Whether the brain operates near a critical phase transition as a functional necessity, or whether criticality is an emergent side-effect of neural dynamics that serves no privileged computational role u-brain-criticality-function
Unknown The particle or field microphysics of galactic dark matter remains unidentified while cosmological and astrophysical evidence for its gravitational effects is strong u-dark-matter-microphysics

Active Hypotheses

Hypothesis A small set of conserved metabolic control nodes explains a measurable fraction of cross-species longevity intervention effects that are reproducibly translatable to mammalian preclinical models medium
Hypothesis The brain maintains proximity to a second-order phase transition as a functional requirement for conscious integration, and disruption of this critical state causally degrades the binding of distributed neural representations high
Hypothesis Inter-individual variation in glymphatic clearance efficiency during sleep is a primary determinant of amyloid-beta accumulation trajectory, and its impairment precedes detectable amyloid load by years high
Hypothesis Targeted radio-line and haloscope-style programs can constrain or detect axion-like ultralight dark matter in specific mass–coupling windows high

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