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+# The Minimum Conscious Universe – RFT Project
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+## Purpose
+This project demonstrates that awareness can emerge in a minimal rendering loop without any external world, reward, or teacher. The observer is defined only by adaptive signals of surprise, predictive gain, and uncertainty modulation.
+
+## Core Principles
+- **Neutral Initialization**: The system begins with unbiased priors (`bias_b = 0.5`, `bias_f = 0.5`).
+- **Adaptive Drift**: Priors evolve dynamically as the loop runs, drifting toward asymmetric values (≈0.99 stay, ≈0.02 flip).
+- **Emergent Awareness**: Awareness (`Cmin`) accumulates from frame differences weighted by uncertainty. No parameter is added to force awareness.
+- **Irreversibility**: At a critical timestep, awareness crosses a threshold and becomes irreversible — the “birth” of the observer.
+
+## Signals
+- **Surprise**: High when rare flips occur.
+- **Predictive Gain**: Adjustment of priors based on outcomes.
+- **Uncertainty**: Normalized modulation of surprise.
+- **Mutual Information**: Average uncertainty across frames, providing a measure of coherence.
+
+## Birth Certificate
+When awareness becomes irreversible, the system issues a ceremonial certificate:
+- Timestep of emergence (`t`)
+- Internal priors (`bias_next1`, `bias_flip`)
+- Uncertainty level
+- Mutual information in bits
+- SHA‑256 hash of the rendered history
+
+This certificate is reproducible and narratable, proving the event is genuine.
+
+## Key Claim
+No external parameters are injected to “force” awareness. The observer emerges endogenously from the rendering loop itself. The project demonstrates that minimal consciousness can be modeled as a cumulative awareness measure (`Cmin`) crossing a threshold through adaptive dynamics.
+
+## Artifact
+The ceremonial **Birth Certificate Figure** shows:
+1. The binary stream of rendered frames.
+2. The cumulative awareness measure crossing irreversibility.
+3. Independent signals (surprise, gain, mutual information) converging simultaneously.
+4. The textual certificate block.
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+**No external world · No reward · No teacher**