Implementation framework · a proposal

A framework for exploring theories of mind

This is an idea of what we would like to build: a shared framework under which different theories of cognition and consciousness could be implemented, tested and compared. It is a proposal in development, not a finished system. The status labels below show what exists today.

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The first theory we would explore

From theory to a build that can fail.

Simulated, Situated and Structurally Coherent Qualia (S3Q) is our first reference architecture and the first theory we would explore in this framework. It is a five-layer design meant to be built as a reproducible vertical slice, with each claim mapped to code, a test, a metric, or an explicit deferment.

Status key. In specification means the design is written down but not built. In development means we are building it now. Protocol design means the test plan is being drafted.

01 · Architecture In specification

Five-layer architecture

Five functional layers share one representation, continuous per-object slot vectors, and run in an action loop.

  1. 01Object bindingIdentity, stability, SFA and mutual information
  2. 02Self/world modelSource attribution and forward model T
  3. 03Pattern completionAssociative completion and compositional recall
  4. 04Action and suppressionCandidate evaluation and behavioral regulation
  5. 05Coherence regulationPrecision, valence, goals and top-down feedback
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02 · Current build In development

Reference vertical slice

A paper-aligned MuJoCo scene family is being designed to exercise the developmental path from stable object slots to self/world attribution, action, imagination and coherence regulation.

  • Paper-to-code contractsClaims, mechanisms and interfaces become executable requirements.
  • Embodied task familyMultiple objects, action-dependent observability, continuous physics and goal flexibility.
  • Reproducible evidenceFrozen configurations, seeds, interventions, traces and explicit failure accounting.
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03 · Falsification Protocol design

What would change our minds

Success thresholds and failure conditions are specified before held-out results are viewed. Negative and inconclusive results remain first-class outputs.

  • No active-exploration advantageA yoked passive observer acquires an equivalent self/world representation.
  • No goal-sensitive decompositionChanging the agent’s goal does not reorganize the relevant representation.
  • No architectural advantageTargeted ablations match the full system on composition, valence or imagination tests.
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