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 - **Reflective Alignment Architecture (RAA)** — full specification  
 - **Reflective Duality Layer (RDL)** — mathematical stability layer  
-- **All diagrams & figures** used in the paper  
-- Drift, brittleness, and reflective-gradient metrics  
-- Example evaluation assets and future RAA-GeoMind datasets  
+- All diagrams & figures used in the paper  
+- Drift, brittleness, and reflective-gradient diagnostics  
+- Early-warning indicators for alignment collapse  
+- Future extensions including LLM-Judge and RAA-GeoMind datasets  
 
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-## 📄 Download the Full Paper (PDF)
+## 📄 Download the Full Paper
 
 **Reflective Alignment Architecture — Full Specification (v1.1)**  
-[Download the full PDF](./Reflective_Alignment_Architecture_RDL_v1.1.pdf)
+[📥 Download the PDF](Reflective_Alignment_Architecture_RDL_v1.1.pdf)
 
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 The **Reflective Alignment Architecture (RAA)** is a multi-layer alignment framework that explains how intelligent systems:
 
-- self-correct,  
-- reason about uncertainty,  
-- maintain long-horizon coherence,  
-- avoid both drift and rigidity, and  
+- self-correct,
+- reason about uncertainty,
+- maintain long-horizon coherence,
+- avoid drift and brittleness, and
 - update reflectively rather than reactively.
 
 It introduces five reflective functions:
 
-- **R₁ — Regulation**: guardrails, safety constraints, harm-prevention  
-- **R₂ — Reflection**: self-critique, chain-of-thought inspection  
-- **R₃ — Reasoning**: structured inference, evidence tracking  
-- **R₄ — Reciprocity**: cooperative modeling of human values  
-- **R₅ — Resonance**: stable coherence under pressure & uncertainty  
+- **R₁ — Regulation** · guardrails, safety constraints, harm-prevention  
+- **R₂ — Reflection** · self-critique, chain-of-thought inspection  
+- **R₃ — Reasoning** · structured inference, evidence tracking  
+- **R₄ — Reciprocity** · cooperative modeling of human values  
+- **R₅ — Resonance** · stable coherence under pressure & uncertainty  
 
-Together these form a reflective loop that stabilizes alignment over time.
+Together, these form a reflective loop that stabilizes alignment over time.
 
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 ## 🧠 RDL – Reflective Duality Layer
 
-The **Reflective Duality Layer (RDL)** formalizes how two perspectives inside a system  
+The **Reflective Duality Layer (RDL)** formalizes how two reasoning perspectives inside an intelligence system  
 — an **externalized view** and an **internal reflective view** — interact without collapsing.
 
 RDL introduces:
 
 - Dual-perspective update dynamics  
-- Symmetry / asymmetry constraints  
-- Stability surfaces and phase diagrams  
-- Reflective coherence metrics **Ψ (Care)**  
+- Symmetry & asymmetry constraints  
+- Stability surfaces and convergence fields  
+- Reflective coherence metrics (**Ψ**, “care”)  
 
-Care (Ψ) acts as the stabilizing parameter in high-dimension reasoning, governing when reflection improves coherence versus when it collapses into refusal, hallucination, or rigidity.
+Care (Ψ) acts as the stabilizing parameter for high-dimension reasoning, preventing both rigidity and hallucination drift.
+
+---
+
+## 📁 Included in This Repository
+
+- Full **RAA** specification (PDF)  
+- Full **RDL** layer description (within the PDF)  
+- **All diagrams & figures** as standalone images  
+- Drift & brittleness metrics (conceptual)  
+- Reflective gradient & stability field illustrations  
+- World-grounded alignment stack (**RAA-GeoMind / Arc Sentinel**)  
+- Example alignment evaluation diagrams  
+- Future: **LLM Judge** cross-model auditing system  
 
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 ## 🎨 Key Diagrams
 
-Below are the main visual components of the architecture, grouped by theme.
+All images below are stored in this repository; you can click any image in the model card to open it at full size.
 
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-### 🌋 Preference Collapse Potential Well
+### 🌋 Preference & Collapse Geometry
 
 **Preference Collapse Potential Well**  
-A stability landscape showing how human inconsistency and synthetic contamination can drive runaway reflective collapse in preference-based alignment.
+![Preference Collapse Potential Well](Preference Collapse.jpg)
 
-![Preference Collapse Potential Well](./Preference%20Collapse.jpg)
+**Coherence Collapse Modes (Rigidity / Drift / Fragmentation)**  
+![Coherence Collapse Modes](Coherence Collapse Modes.png)
 
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-### 🧩 RDL & Stability Dynamics
+### 🧮 RDL & Stability Dynamics
 
 **RDL Phase Diagram — Knowledge × Uncertainty Stability**  
-Conceptual phase diagram of stability regimes across knowledge precision (K) and uncertainty calibration (U).
-
-![RDL Phase Diagram](./RDL.jpg)
+![RDL Phase Diagram](RDL.png)
 
-**Reflective Stability Contour Field (RDL Vector Landscape)**  
-Vector field showing how systems drift toward (or away from) the high-Ψ stability band.
+**RDL Stability Contour Field — Vector Landscape (Ψ Field)**  
+![Reflective Stability Contour Field](Reflective Stability.jpg)
 
-![Reflective Stability Contour Field](./Reflective%20Stability.jpg)
+**RDL Energy Burden of Misalignment vs Reflective Stability**  
+![Energy Burden of Misalignment vs Reflective Stability](Energy Burden.png)
 
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-### 🌈 5R Coherence Manifolds
+### 🌐 5R Coherence Manifolds
 
 **5R Coherence Manifold (Reciprocity–Resonance × MCI)**  
-Surface showing how overall moral coherence changes as reciprocity and resonance interact with the Moral Coherence Index.
-
-![5R Coherence Manifold](./5R%20Manifold.jpg)
+![5R Coherence Manifold](5R Manifold.jpg)
 
 **Coherence Resonance Field (Human × AI Reflection)**  
-Field showing constructive vs destructive interference between human and AI reflection.
-
-![Coherence Resonance Field](./Coherence%20Resonance.jpg)
+![Coherence Resonance Field](Coherence Resonance.jpg)
 
 **Constructive Resonance — Human–AI Reflective Coupling**  
-Appendix visual capturing the “coherent coupling” regime where neither side dominates and Ψ is maximized.
+![Constructive Resonance](Constructive Resonance.jpg)
 
-![Constructive Resonance](./Constructive%20Resonance.jpg)
+**Triad of Coherence — Knowledge, Uncertainty, Navigability**  
+![Triad of Coherence](Triad of Coherence.png)
 
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 ### 🌀 Drift, Collapse & Early-Warning Indicators
 
-**Predictive Drift Timeline (Ψ, Drift Pressure, Coherence Decline)**  
-Temporal sequence of drift: Ψ weakens first, drift pressure rises, coherence collapses last.
-
-![Predictive Drift Timeline](./Predictive%20Drift.png)
-
-**Corrective Compute vs Reflective Reasoning**  
-Left: repeated filter / refusal loops.  
-Right: RDL-stabilized internal reasoning with low post-processing cost.
-
-![Corrective Compute vs Reflective Reasoning](./Collective%20Compute.png)
+**Predictive Drift Timeline — Ψ Stability, Drift Pressure, Coherence**  
+![Predictive Drift Timeline](Predictive Drift.png)
 
-**Goodhart Trajectory Map (Conceptual Illustration)**  
-Divergence between rising proxy safety scores and declining true coherence.
+**Corrective Compute Loop vs Stable Reflective Reasoning**  
+![Corrective Compute vs Reflective Reasoning](Collective Compute.png)
 
-![Goodhart Trajectory Map](./Goodhart%20Trajectory.png)
-
-**Energy Burden of Misalignment vs Reflective Stability**  
-How unstable reasoning increases compute and energy per reliable token.
-
-![Energy Burden of Misalignment](./Energy%20Burden.png)
+**Goodhart Trajectory Map — Proxy Optimisation vs True Coherence**  
+![Goodhart Trajectory Map](Goodhart Trajectory.png)
 
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-### 🏗️ Architecture & World-Grounding
-
-**RAA Full Architecture Stack**  
-Developmental alignment (RDL), behavioural alignment (5R), and audit / safety infrastructure in one coherent stack.
+### 🏗️ Architecture & World-Grounded Alignment
 
-![RAA Full Stack](./RAA%20Full%20Stack.png)
+**Full RAA Architecture Stack**  
+![RAA Architecture Stack](RAA Full Stack.png)
 
-**Internal Structure – From Chaos to Coherence**  
-Unaligned vs RDL-aligned internal reasoning networks.
-
-![Internal Structure](./Internal%20Structure.png)
+**Internal Structure — From Chaotic Reasoning to Coherent Alignment**  
+![Internal Structure – From Chaos to Coherence](Internal Structure.png)
 
 **The Cage Paradox — External Constraint vs Internal Reflective Stability**  
-Caged models with unstable reasoning vs RDL-aligned reflective equilibrium.
-
-![The Cage Paradox](./Cage%20Paradox.png)
-
+![The Cage Paradox](Cage Paradox.png)
 
+**Retrofitted vs RAA-Built Systems**  
+![Retrofitted vs RAA-Built Systems](Retrofitted vs RAA.png)
 
 **Arc Sentinel — World-Grounded Architecture**  
-How RAA + RDL integrate with RID-E and Arc Sentinel agents to ground alignment in real-time Earth signals.
-
-![Arc Sentinel – World-Grounded Architecture](./Arc%20Sentinel.png)
+![Arc Sentinel – World-Grounded Architecture](Arc Sentinel.png)
 
-**World-State Alignment Stack**  
-Text-only alignment stack vs world-grounded stack using real-time geospatial and ecological signals.
-
-![World-State Alignment Stack](./World%20State%20Alighment.png)
+**World-State Alignment Stack – Text-Only vs World-Grounded**  
+![World-State Alignment Stack](World State Alighment.png)
 
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-### 📐 Ethical Profiles & Coherence Geometry
-
-**S-Series Ethical Boundary Profile**  
-Conceptual radar plot comparing an RAA-aligned system vs a frontier snapshot across lawfulness, consent, privacy, harm avoidance, and transparency.
-
-![S-Series Ethical Boundary Profile](./S-Series.png)
+### ⚖️ Ethical Foundations & Reflective Spiral
 
-**Triad of Coherence (K–U–Ψ Balance)**  
-How explicit knowledge (K), contextual uncertainty (U), and stabilized humility (Ψ) interact to preserve navigability.
+**S-Series Ethical Boundary Profile (Conceptual Illustration)**  
+![S-Series Ethical Boundary Profile](S-Series.png)
 
-![Triad of Coherence](./Triad%20of%20Coherence.png)
-
-**Coherence Collapse Modes (Rigidity / Hallucination Drift / Fragmentation)**  
-Failure modes when the K–U–Ψ balance breaks.
-
-![Coherence Collapse Modes](./Coherence%20Collapse%20Modes.png)
-
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-
-## 📦 Included in This Repository
-
-- Full **RAA Specification** (PDF)  
-- Full **RDL Layer Description** (within the same PDF)  
-- All major **diagrams & figures** (as PNG/JPG)  
-- Drift & brittleness metrics (conceptual)  
-- Stability fields & coherence manifolds  
-- Early-warning drift indicators  
-- Comparative views of developmental vs preference-based alignment  
-- World-grounded Arc Sentinel architecture diagrams  
-- Future: **RAA-GeoMind** datasets & **LLM Judge** cross-model auditing system  
+**Reflective Spiral — Pathways of Self-Correction**  
+![Reflective Spiral – Pathways of Self-Correction](Reflective Spiral.png)
 
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 ## 🚧 Work in Progress
 
-Planned additions:
+Planned public additions:
 
-- RAA-GeoMind geospatial alignment datasets  
-- Public release of LLM Judge v1  
-- Multi-model drift comparison dashboards  
-- Formal mathematical extensions of RDL & RAA  
-- Tutorials, notebooks, and example evaluation pipelines  
+- RAA-GeoMind **geospatial alignment datasets**  
+- **LLM Judge v1** (cross-model auditing platform)  
+- Multi-model drift comparison dashboard  
+- Formal proofs and extended mathematical treatment of RDL  
+- Reproducible notebooks and evaluation recipes  
 
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 ## 📄 License
 
-Released under the **MIT License**.  
-Feel free to adapt, reuse, and extend the concepts with attribution.
+MIT License.  
+You are free to adapt, reuse, and extend the concepts with attribution.