neuro crosswalk with credited anchors + our independent findings; law 41: AI provenance signatures

docs/architecture/README.md

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 > Status: DESIGN AGREED whiteboard session, 2026-08-23. Pre-implementation.
 
+**The semel** — the fundamental unit of meaning. Every node is one:
+identity plus its signed dimensional readings plus its edges. A semel
+in isolation carries only an address; meaning exists in the web —
+semels mean by their relations, their weights, and what activates
+them together. The name borrows from semiotics (seme, sememe,
+semiosis): this system is a meaning-system before it is anything else.
+
 The discovery of this session: memory, time-sense, attention, salience,
 curiosity, ideation, understanding, and wisdom are **not seven systems**.
 They are different aspects of **one process at different timescales and
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     The whiteboard is where facts are made because it is cheap, low-
     resolution, and high-fidelity — wrong there costs an eraser.
     Design before code, always: facts are cheapest at the drawing stage.
+41. Every byte Neuron generates carries its birth certificate:
+    a cryptographic signature asserting AI origin — which instance,
+    which model, when, and what sources fed it (derivation lineage).
+    Claims-based, like everything else (Law 13): the provenance rides
+    with the artifact as data. Private study and learning remain free;
+    commercial use of source expression pays; and no output ever poses
+    as human-made. The signature is not surveillance — it is custody
+    of honesty, applied to ourselves first.