Research question
Which adaptive behaviours can arise from local memory accumulation and motion bias without a trained neural or symbolic controller?
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.
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
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EVIDENCE
Results inside the model
INTERACTIVE MODEL LENS
Memory-regime lens
A regime map for decaying excitation, persistent traces, and runaway collapse in a phase-coupled memory field.
The memory trail persists within the mapped stable regime.
- Persistent memory trails remain after stimulus removal in the stable-trace regime.
- Motion changes with the sign and strength of the field bias.
- The report maps explicit parameter regions for decay, lock, and runaway excitation.
BOUNDARY
CLAIM BOUNDARY
- 01Declared numerical protocol
Memory field · attraction/avoidance · multi-agent response · stability zones
- 02Supported model-level finding
Persistent memory trails remain after stimulus removal in the stable-trace regime.
- Claim boundary
- 03Requires 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.
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 recordThe DOI is the canonical external record. The site condenses the public publication and does not replace it.
PROGRAMME TOPOLOGY
Research lineage
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