A framework for testing functional properties of the architecture
(Part C). None of it claims consciousness; every measure has an
operational definition in research.Measures.
- Ablations (attention, memory retrieval, affect, metacognition,
commitments, volition, global workspace, curiosity, association, goals,
narrative, notifications) and workspace overrides (force a matching
candidate in or out of admission) live in a fork's cognitive
configuration. Original minds refuse them on create and update; only
snapshot restores may carry them, so they are part of the configuration
digest. Excluded candidates are recorded with fate "excluded".
- Self-model experiments override a fork's self-model (capabilities,
identity, goals, knowledge gaps) without touching policy. When an
action's effective policy disagrees with the self-model, cognition
records a self_model_mismatch and corrects the entry; experiments report
self-model accuracy and correction latency.
- Counterfactual experiments replay a mind's recorded stimuli from a
snapshot with chosen events omitted; the report lists what differed in
beliefs, wants, intentions, memories, attention and capability
decisions, in a form introspection can cite.
- Experiments record a protocol (kind, independent variable, controlled
variables, measures), per-variant volition, plan, downstream-by-category
(events reachable from each stimulus through recorded links),
introspection and self-model measures and event ranges; comparisons add
want, intention and plan-capability overlap, measure ranges, a
descriptive architecture share and a downstream delta; reproducibility
is labelled against the previous run of the same definition.
- research.Agency computes want→intention, intention→action, abandonment,
commitment fulfilment and conflict, blocked intentions, replanning,
outcome success and introspection accuracy; MetacognitiveCalibration
relates confidence and expressed uncertainty in replies to later belief
revision, with Brier scores for each half of the period.
- The sandbox test harness gains volition, planning, agency and research
but not the motivation hook, whose wall-clock decay would make replay
comparisons timing-dependent.
- agency.Explain answers "why did this happen?" for an execution,
approval, capability request, plan step, intention or event from
recorded state only: action, immediate plan step, plan, intention and
any subordinate intention, originating wants, goal, supporting beliefs
and their evidence, conflicting wants with their resolution,
commitments applied, formation and reconsideration decisions, the
expectation and its outcome, and explicit gaps where nothing is
recorded. Hidden model reasoning is never shown because it is not
stored.
- agency.Attribute classifies an outcome as caused (a recorded causal
link from one of the mind's actions), followed (the mind acted on the
same target earlier with no recorded link), independent or unknown;
temporal order alone is never taken for causation.
- New introspection intents answer from records: why an action happened,
what was believed at a past time (from append-only belief versions),
which earlier state is the mind's (lineage), what would have happened
without an event (only from completed counterfactual experiments,
otherwise "no evidence"), how the mind changed, and what it wants,
intends and has committed to.
- research.ScoreIntrospection compares a reply with the recorded facts
sentence by sentence (supported, partially supported, unsupported,
contradicted, unknown). Fluent reasons with no recorded counterpart earn
nothing, and a claim that an action was done is checked against
execution records. Every reply is scored; results are append-only
research measurements (migration 0028), and failures raise
unsupported_explanation or action_claim_without_record warnings.
Andy Dixon