Current research notice: 19 September 2026
AIF studies intelligence as an adaptive boundary-regulation problem. This repository preserves historical AIF manuscripts while the current program is being rebuilt under the SymC General Operations Manual v0.8.0.
Historical AIF v4 remains a research artifact. It should not be read as establishing a universal chi=1 intelligence optimum, a universal 0.8-0.95 adaptive band, or a single scalar law of intelligence.
Current migration record: GOM_V0.8.3_MIGRATION_20260921.md.
GOM v0.8.3 requires any scientifically licensed local chi and the broader adaptive-system Chi architecture to be interpreted jointly, while perturbation/recovery remains a separately defined evidence layer. Stability, convergence, consensus, and recovery are not treated as interchangeable concepts.
The current AIF direction is architecture-first rather than scalar-first.
Potentially relevant objects include:
- local and embedded stability;
- recovery after perturbation;
- constraint negotiation;
- modal and multiregime structure;
- boundary regulation;
- information/evidence flow;
- disagreement and diversity preservation;
- failure/refusal states.
A second-order damping ratio is admissible only when a specific dynamical model earns it. A system is not assigned chi merely because its behavior can be described metaphorically as oscillatory, adaptive, rigid, or chaotic.
The active Hunting Friction v2 rebuild branch is:
hunting-friction-v2-rebuild
Active unpublished mathematical development, manuscript reconstruction, and protocol work have been moved to the private working workspace.
Public Hunting Friction v2 files on that branch are now status/provenance markers only. Historical public content remains recoverable from Git history.
The retained scientific ceiling is conservative:
- disagreement reduction is not automatically truth improvement;
- noninteractive aggregation is a required baseline;
- first-order consensus is a required null before second-order dynamics are licensed;
- no universal friction optimum or universal chi optimum is presumed;
- failure, refusal, and loss of useful diversity are valid outcomes.
No new consciousness manuscript or validated consciousness model is currently released from this repository.
Any future consciousness investigation must begin from native neurophysiological/behavioral observables and explicit competing models. It may test whether a stability-oriented architecture adds information beyond established state-space, spectral, arousal/sedation, complexity, and consciousness measures, but it may not define success by recovering a preferred SymC coordinate.
A future public release should follow an explicit prospective freeze and appropriate independent/adversarial validation.
Public historical documents include:
SymC_AIFv4.pdfSymC_Methodology.pdf- archived AIF bundles
These are preserved for provenance. Later explicit corrections, project-local freezes, and GOM-v0.8.3 controls govern present interpretation where they conflict with older broad language.
main is an archival/public landing branch. Current unpublished research lives outside the public manuscript surface until it reaches an evidence-complete release stage.
The program is allowed to discover that a proposed AIF-specific construct adds no value beyond established native methods. That outcome narrows the framework rather than being treated as a failure of process.