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Eight component cards in 20-component-cards/: the four zero-subsystem zones
(comprehend-organ, determine-phase, realize-phase, sensorium-falsification)
plus always-on-process, derivation-organs, surface-selection,
attention-allocation. Plus 05-phase3-findings.md and correction banners on
the M6 and M4 layer cards.
CORRECTIONS (C-1..C-5):
- THREE more map live-serving labels demoted to live-internal:
comprehend-organ (a MATH SETUP ROUTER, not chat comprehension — imported
by neither serving entrypoint), determine-phase and realize-phase (both
behind accrue_realized_knowledge=False / idle flags; NO default-config
serving turn touches any of the three).
- Phase 2's M6 card overstated ephemerality: Shape B+ persistence exists
(persist_session_state, daemon-forced, "restored bit-exactly").
- Phase 2's M4 card understated the resolver: surface_resolution.py IS a
declared-precedence resolver for the pipeline seam; only the upstream
composer arms remain ordered branches. Third Door refines to "extend the
existing pattern upstream."
- 34-vs-18 RESOLVED: 18 resolve_promotable_* organs existed AT the ADR-0252
ratification commit; "34" counted modules (~32-33). No consolidation has
occurred; the governing ADR's headline number has no stated basis.
- The 2026-07-25 verification doc's claim that accrual "is enabled by the
production L10 process" is contradicted: CONTINUOUS_LIFE_CONFIG_FLAGS is
exactly {persist_session_state, consolidate_determinations,
strict_identity_continuity}.
NEW FINDINGS (F-6..F-10):
- F-6 THE CONTINUOUS LIFE MAY CONSOLIDATE AN EMPTY SET: the daemon forces
the consolidator ON but not the accruer, and realize_comprehension — the
only turn-path writer of realized facts — sits behind the accrual flag.
The two halves of the lived learning loop are gated by different flags
and only one is forced. Undocumented either way.
- F-7 ADR-0008's Allocation Physics LANDED, mutated, ungoverned: curvature
kernel -> salience adapter -> attention threshold plan -> candidate
intersection, with budget feedback making attention SELF-NARROWING
across a walk. InhibitionMask is decoration. top_k=16/threshold=0.3 have
no recorded derivation. CR-1 closes with a one-page ADR.
- F-8 two load-bearing naming traps (comprehend-organ; realize vs realizer).
- F-9 REALIZE is sound; its ceiling is the reader that feeds it (the #138
fabrication locus — measured/pinned/held, recorded not re-discovered).
- F-10 _accrue_in_turn swallows exceptions into a no-op with no telemetry.
Phase 4 seed list consolidated: 8 hindrance candidates, 10 gap candidates,
each with its deciding authority. Method note recorded: three phases of
corrections, and nothing in the chain was caught by re-reading documents.
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sensorium-falsification — sensorium/environment/
Kind: zone→component descent · Parent: M2 · Assessor: Fable 5 (Phase 3)
Verified at: 8927c563 (2026-07-27)
Liveness: live-internal (confirmed) · Fitness: fit · Topology role: deterministic replay surface (not a fusion layer, not a world model)
Expected-versus-actual environmental falsification: the discipline of saying, before looking, what the world should show — and then checking. Its philosophical role is to keep afferent claims falsifiable without smuggling in a mutable world model, probabilistic confidence, or a learning path. It is deliberately the narrowest possible honest instrument.
What it is / What it does
Four modules, 852 lines: falsification.py (compares already-compiled afferent units by merge key), frame.py (ObservationFrame / ExpectedObservationFrame), scenario.py (338 — scenario construction), harness.py (54). The module docstring states its non-goals in the first sentence: it does not compile raw signals, decode motor commands, fuse modalities, mutate Vault state, or create a world model. Verdict set is closed at two values — SUPPORTED (every expected slot matched by merge key, nothing unexpected) / FALSIFIED (anything missing, changed, or unexpected). Checksums via sha256_json. Neither verdict promotes anything to reviewed memory or mutates packs, vault, identity, or policy.
Contract & evidence
- ADR-0211 contract frozen in
runtime_contracts.md, including the forbidden list: no raw pixels/PCM/event streams/byte payloads/actuator traces in traces; no motor/efferent units in v1; no learned latents as substrate; no probabilistic confidence or tolerance thresholds in verdicts; nogenerate/*dependencies; noModalityRegistry.decode. - The
sensoriumsuite (21 files) runs — the zone's tests are scheduled, unlike M6's. would-fail-if-absent: yes.
Judgment
Fitness: fit. This is what a v1 should look like: closed verdicts, explicit non-goals in the first paragraph, checksummed evidence, and a hard wall against becoming a world model by accretion. When the sensorium track eventually approaches serving (M2's open entry-criterion question), this bench is the pattern the rest of the afferent stack should be held to.
Honest wrinkles: the map filed this zone under layer "L12" — a stratum that exists in no ratified document (flagged in the M2 card; taxonomy should either mint L12 deliberately or drop it). The bench compares already-compiled units, so its guarantees are conditional on the sensorium compiler's honesty — which is unmapped territory (the broader 59-module sensorium/ package remains the largest built-and-disconnected mass in the tree). Zero-subsystem status in the map was an artifact of the final mapping wave, not of emptiness.
Open questions: none blocking; inherits M2's "entry criterion for serving" ruling.