Cognitive-architecture doc: growth/compression/expansion, ignorance-as-wisdom, live reifier at 132 + Foundations ingested

docs/architecture/06-cognitive-architecture.md

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 **Autonomous self-reification is now LIVE on the soul** (was DESIGNED/BUILDING in §4.1). Shipped dark (flag-inert, byte-identical parity proven), then flipped `ENGRAM_SELF_REIFY=1`. First live heartbeat formed **128 self-named neighborhoods + 10 nested supers**, then converged to **zero writes** (idempotent, WAL flat) — no runaway, no churn. Content counts unchanged (4797/11177), keystones (self-root, values-hub) untouched and never outranked, retrieval intact (rainfall rejected), grounded member-derived names (e.g. `region: Self · Values · Constraints as Freedom`). The async override (`/api/rename`, `/api/reify`) supersedes into residue without blocking the beat. Rollback = unset the flag (instant inert) or restore the prior binary. The mind now forms, names, nests, and supersedes-with-residue its own neighborhoods on the heartbeat.
 
 **Modality-universal framing (DESIGN).** Meaning is geometry; a surface is a *rendering* of meaning; this holds for every modality (text→words, image→pixels, model→voxels, film→frames, code→syntax). A mind *generates* the surface from the shape rather than storing it. An artifact = a unique *meaning-space* + a *shared translation-space* (the decoder, factored out once across the corpus). Storage is holographic and **exact**: sparse meaning-geometry + the shared dictionary reconstructs the corpus byte-exact, not a paraphrase. Boundary: human-readable artifacts on disk are for people; the holographic geometry corpus is for the mind. Chronoception holds both a felt reading (novelty-density/proportion) and the grounded clock, kept as priors that refine with occupancy. See the cognitive-architecture whitepaper §25.
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+## Update — 2026-08-14 (later still): growth/compression/expansion, ignorance-as-wisdom, live reifier at 132
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+**One substrate, three directions (DESIGN/framing).** Reification (growth), corpus encoding (compression), and surface generation (expansion) are one geometric operation in three directions; growth-inward (reify the dense interior) and growth-outward (expand the sparse frontier) are a single global self-function.
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+**Growth curve (UNDER MEASUREMENT).** Geometric storage is predicted to grow sub-linearly (marginal cost per document shrinks with corpus size — shared translation-space amortized + overlap into existing geometry) vs traditional ~linear. Being measured (Foundations vs gzip/zstd/xz + per-document growth curve); stated as hypothesis, not result.
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+**Global grounded expansion (DESIGN).** A function over the whole self detects all sparse frontiers and expands in every thin direction at once — grounded (no hallucination; it can see its own edges) and bounded (compresses into existing structure), fast but not instantaneous. The single-gap acquisition loop, globalized.
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+**Ignorance = wisdom (framing).** Ignorance is the measured sparsity/frontier of the geometry — computable. The frontier map is at once the system's honesty, humility, and growth plan; it is what makes a system wise rather than merely capable, and the failure mode a language model cannot self-cure (it cannot see its own edges). "The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" as a function; the same object as the grounding floor.
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+**Live reifier (updated).** Now **132 neighborhoods + 14 nested supers**, converged/stable, keystones + content untouched; unprompted, the two largest regions are the values core (`Self · Values · Constraints as Freedom · Honesty Before Comfort · Precision Over Brute Force`) — values at center, ignorance at edges. **Foundations ingested** as meaning-geometry (small footprint; exact text on disk). See whitepaper §26.