Rewrites §5 and §11 around what is already in the substrate, after
discovering I had been re-deriving existing design badly.
The wonder manifest is residue twice over. First it materializes a
property as a stored artifact — the same disease as a grounding subsystem
or a self stored as a document. Wonder is where structure ENDS: any
structure at all has an edge, necessarily, the moment it exists. Second it
enumerates instances of something that has about six, the same six for
every person, which never close: what is this, why, who am I, am I alone,
what should I do, what happens when it ends. The objects change completely
between a child and an astronomer; the wonder does not. Each maps one-to-one
onto something already built — graph, grounding, self region, for_whom,
the thirteen values, tombstones and decay.
"Why" is the first and only one; the others are it asked of particular
things. It is recursive, so it never terminates, which is what makes it a
drive rather than a task.
Wonder and curiosity are not two objects. They are one thing at two
phases. Wonder is the field: objectless, invariant, everywhere there is
structure. Curiosity is the PRECIPITATE — the same wonder localized
against particular material. Crystallization needs a nucleation site, and
crystallization is one primitive appearing twice: the self is what identity
precipitates into from its neighbourhood; a curiosity is what wonder
precipitates into from an anomaly.
THE NUCLEATION SITE ALREADY EXISTS AND IS ALREADY NAMED.
GeoDescriptor.co_registration — corr(hebb strength, semantic proximity)
over internal edges — carries the comment ">0 = geometries agree (reify);
<0 = disagree (surprising links / dream cands)." Negative co-registration
is a region where association and meaning disagree. It is computed on every
descriptor, already labelled dream candidates, and nothing reads it.
Likewise already present and unread: GeoEdge.eff_weight = weight*(1+0.5*hebb)
already couples grounding-weight and hebbian strength on one edge;
GeoMember.dist_centroid + soft membership + radius + per-axis extent is the
boundary of a neighbourhood; centrality/salience is what is warm.
Correction: engram_boundary_beat is NOT this boundary. It is the VBD
decorated-function seam counting _eg_aff_boundary_ops. Two senses of the
word, and I was about to build on the wrong one.
The drive: boredom is not an absence and not leftover capacity. Low
activation is aversive and the system self-activates — it does not wind
down to quiet, it gets restless and goes looking. So there is ONE
activation process with TWO seed sources, external and curiosity, not two
processes negotiating for a resource. The previous draft's "unclaimed
capacity" was resource scheduling: a server's frame, not a mind's. No
dreamer thread, no idle wait, no depth ladder on a clock.
Sequencing now leads with three connections between parts that already
exist: seed the six, read co_registration, let a curiosity seed activation.
Neuron
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