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The architecture docs describe four things the design spec has since ruled out,
and each one is a supervisor invented for something that should be a property of
the substrate: grounding modelled as a subsystem rather than as the edge weight
it already is; faculties modelled as parameters of a read when abduce is a write;
wonder materialized as a maintained manifest when it is the boundary of the
structure; and consolidation implemented eleven times behind tickers when a brain
has no cron job.

Left standing rather than deleted, per the repo's own supersession discipline —
the trail of how the understanding matured is the point. Each stale passage is
marked inline and points at a new 06 §12 that transcribes the corrections and
records the measured consolidation inventory.

Authority: foundation/el, branch design/correspondence-and-censorship,
lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md.
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@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ The full VBD classification is in `01-vbd-decomposition.md`. In one glance:
| Cognitive API | `neuron-api.el` | Managers + Engines — session/memory/knowledge/graph/cultivation handlers |
| Request pipeline | `soul.el` `layered_cycle` | Manager — L1 safety → L2 stewardship → L3 imprint |
| Boot + identity | `soul.el` | Manager — compose layers, seed identity graph, start server + daemon |
| Autonomous cognition | `awareness.el` | Manager (`awareness_run`) + Engines (curiosity, attend, threat) |
| Autonomous cognition | `awareness.el` | Manager (`awareness_run`) + Engines (~~curiosity~~ †, attend, threat) |
| Memory access | `memory.el` | Resource Accessor over the engram FFI/HTTP |
| Store | `engram/server.el` + `el_runtime.c` | Accessor (HTTP) over the real graph engine |
| Request-layer rules | `safety.el`, `stewardship.el`, `imprint.el` | Engines |
@@ -112,6 +112,17 @@ The full VBD classification is in `01-vbd-decomposition.md`. In one glance:
| MCP transport | `mcp-proxy`, `mcp-wrapper` | Managers/Accessors — protocol boundary |
| Build | `manifest.el`, `dist/soul.c`, El toolchain | amalgamation → `soul.c` → binary |
> **† Superseded (2026-08-16) — see `06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.3.**
> Curiosity is **not a peer Engine** beside `attend` and `threat`. It is not a
> component at all: **curiosity is wonder crystallized at a nucleation site** —
> one thing at two phases, where wonder is the field (unbounded, objectless,
> invariant, present wherever there is structure) and curiosity is the
> precipitate (localized, with an object, able to direct activation). What it
> seeds is the **same** activation process `attend` runs; there is one activation
> process with two seed sources — external (a request) and internal (a
> curiosity) — not two processes negotiating for a resource. Modelling it as a
> peer Engine is what produced the timed `proactive_curiosity` scan documented in
> `02-components.md §3b`.
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