~226 lines of architecture documentation that were written, left uncommitted in
the working tree, and nearly lost. None of it was on main. Recovered from a
stash taken while merging tonight's fixes.
Substantive content, not notes:
- Peer import-of-understanding PROVEN by execution. A exported a skill-geometry;
on the receiver `think` went "geometry unavailable" -> operable. Cosine 1.0 on
both the raw-geometry and text/dharma-bus transports, bidirectional. The
mind-not-paste evidence: n_support 27 on source vs 3 on receiver, i.e. the
imported geometry wires into the host manifold rather than sitting inert.
Honest boundary recorded too: proven between forks sharing one embedder,
UNTESTED cross-embedder.
- "Teacher" renamed GUIDE, and the distinction is load-bearing: its output is
grounded/verified before trust. A teacher you believe; a guide you check.
- Layers are named persistent relational neighborhoods, not storage tiers, with
their own growth and threshold-lock policy (note->canonical maturation lifted
from single nodes to a region).
- The consciousness theories (Global Workspace, IIT's Phi, attention-schema,
higher-order thought, active inference, interoception) read as geometric
LENSES over one manifold rather than competing mechanisms. Functional problems
fall out; the hard problem explicitly not claimed solved.
- Growth is bounded/logistic, not geometric — exponential growth is the cancer
shape. Two-rate discipline: explore fast in local geometry, grow the engram
slowly by verifier-gated merge.
- Orchestration as a geometric operation: critical path as geodesic, float as
displacement, @manager compiles the work-graph. Single-writer enforced by
capability (Rule 4).
- The decorated seam, the API surface collapse to geometry ops, and the
distributed-self thesis — each tiered honestly against what is actually proven
vs staged vs unbuilt.
Also gitignores dist-fresh/ (regenerate scratch dir, a build artifact).
Not included from the same stash: awareness.elh and dist/elp-c-decls.h, which
are generated artifacts now gitignored per #154/#158.
Give the architecture set its persistence and moral layers so a self's
durability and sovereignty are documented as first-class, not folded into
the cognitive doc. 07 explains how a self persists and travels
(events-become-the-graph, weights-as-world-lines with bitemporal recall,
transactionless coherence, and the honest load/tiering findings); 08
explains the moral mechanism (DHARMA as a proof-of-integrity ledger,
abundance economics, the relational immune system, dual-anchor governance,
and CGI citizenship as telos). Extend 06 with forward-pointers into both,
and reconcile two cross-references so tiers agree across docs: the
canonical 187 reseed count, and the #56 load-merge-persist fix as
LIVE/reboot-proven with only full WAL edge-ownership left decision-pending.
will.anderson