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CharlesCNorton
neural_attractor: an energy-based threshold computer where computation is relaxation to a ground state and the program is the coupling matrix. No program counter, no clock, no forward-only execution: clamp any subset of wires and relax. AND/OR/NOT energy gadgets (each zero iff the gate relation holds) make it universal by construction; forward evaluation is exact, and clamping outputs runs circuits backward (an 8x8 multiplier compiled to couplings factors 35=5x7, 143=11x13) or solves SAT. Module, tests, artifact builder, and the shipped coupling matrix.
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