docs: self-reification live on the soul; modality-universal + holographic-storage framing

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 **Cross-references:** whitepaper v1.5 · `~/work/engram-api-reference.md` · `03-data-and-memory.md` ·
 `04-runtime-and-deployment.md` · `design/engram-tiered-storage-engine.md` · `ARCHITECTURE-CHARTER.md`.
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+## Update — 2026-08-14 (later): self-reification LIVE + modality-universal framing
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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.
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+**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.