PUBLIC EVIDENCE DOSSIER

V3Foundational systems2025UNDER REVISION

Simulation study

Emergent Cognition in Phase-Coupled Memory Fields

V3 asks how local memory changes reactive agents’ movement. The reported simulations retain traces after a stimulus and show attraction, avoidance, and unstable regimes. These are model behaviours; the historical interpretation is under revision.

Status reviewed on 5 September 2026. The historical publication remains available; its updated interpretation is still in progress. No revision start date is asserted.

V3
EVIDENCE MODE
Numerical study
SCOPE
CLAIM-BOUNDED
Publication
Public publication · DOI
01QUESTION

Research question

Which adaptive behaviours can arise from local memory accumulation and motion bias without a trained neural or symbolic controller?

02MODEL

MODEL SCOPE

Public model description

A two-dimensional lattice carries a decaying scalar memory field. Agents sample directional utilities with attraction or avoidance bias, stochastic forcing, and optional speed modulation.

03EXPERIMENT

PROTOCOL

Declared evidence chain

Stimulus removal, sign changes in field bias, multi-agent response, and parameter sweeps are used to distinguish decay, stable trace, saturation, phase-shift, and collapse regimes.

Series: Memory field · attraction/avoidance · multi-agent response · stability zones

  • Memory field
  • attraction/avoidance
  • multi-agent response
  • stability zones

The labels below preserve the public protocol identity. They are an index to the publication, not a substitute for its full methods or an open reproducibility bundle.

04RESULT

EVIDENCE

Results inside the model

2DMemory lattice
5Mapped regime classes
TRACE → COLLAPSEObserved regime span

INTERACTIVE MODEL LENS

Memory-regime lens

A regime map for decaying excitation, persistent traces, and runaway collapse in a phase-coupled memory field.

NORMALIZED EXPLANATORY VIEW
Active stateStable trace

The memory trail persists within the mapped stable regime.

Geometry, intensity, timing, and motion in this lens are normalized explanatory encodings. They are not experimental measurements. Published aggregates remain in the evidence signals and source figure.
  1. Persistent memory trails remain after stimulus removal in the stable-trace regime.
  2. Motion changes with the sign and strength of the field bias.
  3. The report maps explicit parameter regions for decay, lock, and runaway excitation.
05CLAIM BOUNDARY

BOUNDARY

CLAIM BOUNDARY

  1. 01
    Declared numerical protocol

    Memory field · attraction/avoidance · multi-agent response · stability zones

  2. 02
    Supported model-level finding

    Persistent memory trails remain after stimulus removal in the stable-trace regime.

  3. Claim boundary
  4. 03
    Requires a separate validation chain

    Terms such as intention, emotion, or cognition are operational labels for simulated dynamics; they are not evidence of consciousness, biological cognition, or a validated intelligent machine.

Numerical evidence is not physical validation. Transfer to a material, device, organism, environment, or operational service requires a separate validation chain whenever such a transfer is relevant.

06PUBLICATION

Publication record

Author
Nikita Teslia
Programme
Foundational systems
Claim type
Simulation study
Year
2025
Dossier review
Series
Memory field · attraction/avoidance · multi-agent response · stability zones
License
Custom ethical license stated in the supplied PDF
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.15663517

Citation

Teslia, N. (2025). Emergent Cognition in Phase-Coupled Memory Fields. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15663517Open publication record

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PROGRAMME TOPOLOGY

Research lineage

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