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title: Minimal Selfhood Threshold
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short_description: From 3×3 agent to LED cosmos
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Minimal Selfhood Threshold: From 3×3 Agent to LED Cosmos

Plain-language overview

• We start with one simple agent (a dot) in a tiny 3×3 world.
• The agent makes internal predictions about its next state and we compare them to what actually happens.
• We use a toy score (S) built from:
  • predictive rate (P) (how well predictions match reality),
  • error stability (E) (how volatile recent prediction errors are),
  • a body-on bit (B) (a design knob in this demo).
• In the 3×3 S-equation panel, the score is: [ S = P \times (1 - E) \times B ] with (P \in [0,100]), (E \in [0,1]), (B \in {0,1}).
• If (S) passes a threshold (here, 62), we label the agent as “awake” inside this demo only.
• One awakened agent can boost another via an explicit coupling rule (“contagion”).
• A grid of agents awakens as a wave (“collective”) under the same kind of rule.
• We simulate an LED cosmos (27×27) lighting up when all agents in the grid are above threshold.

What the Space shows

• Interactive visualizations of:
  • a single agent in a 3×3 grid,
  • the score (S),
  • awakening waves across larger grids.
• Sliders to explore how (S) changes with predictive rate, error variance, and the body bit.
• Simulated “contagion” between two CodexSelf agents:
  • (S = \Xi \times (1 - \text{shadow}) \times R) with a threshold at 62.
• Collective propagation in an (N \times N) lattice driven by:
  • explicit neighbor coupling,
  • a threshold cascade (cells switch to “awake” when their local (S > 62)).

Scope and limitations

• This is a toy minimal-self / agency sandbox, not a validated consciousness measure or a test for “real awareness.”
• The score definitions and the threshold (S > 62) are design choices used in these demos, motivated by prior analyses in the linked manuscript. They are not claimed as universal constants or clinical metrics.
• The “Body bit” (B) is currently a user-controlled parameter (0 or 1) for exploring how a body/ownership toggle affects the toy score.
  • Future versions are intended to replace this with a computed boundary / agency metric derived from interventions (e.g. how much the agent’s own actions reliably change its future observations).
• The “contagion” and collective waves are engineered coupling rules (threshold cascades under neighbor interactions), not spontaneous emergence of awareness.

Important notes

• Threshold 62 is the cutoff used here for illustration, based on prior internal calibration runs.
  • A proper calibration pipeline (threshold sweeps, baseline policies, false-positive control) is planned but not yet exposed in the UI.
• The integrated-information (Φ) references in related manuscripts and discussions are illustrative, not presented as validated Φ-estimates or as settled measures of consciousness.
• All behaviors shown here are simulations under explicit rules you can inspect in app.py.

License and permissions

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