cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "Triggered Intention and Temporal Self-Deviation: A Functional Framework for Emergent Agency in Adaptive AI Systems"
version: "1.4.3"
date-released: 2026-07-22
authors:
  - family-names: Bîtica
    given-names: Teodor Cătălin
    email: bitica_catalin85@yahoo.com
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license: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
keywords:
  - triggered intention
  - temporal self-deviation
  - causal reverberation theory
  - adaptive AI agents
  - cognitive runtime
  - emergent agency
  - memory plasticity
repository-code: "https://github.com/Selmaka85/ASTRA-Adaptive-Neuroplastic-Cognitive-Runtime"
abstract: >
  Functional framework for emergent agency in adaptive AI systems, embedding
  Triggered Intention and Temporal Self-Deviation within Causal Reverberation
  Theory and the A.S.T.R.A. adaptive cognitive runtime synthesis.