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A component operates within two ceilings set by the previous NIGHT: a **structure** that A component operates within two ceilings set by the previous NIGHT: a **structure** that
bounds how strongly each behavior can act, and a **budget capacity** that bounds how much fuel bounds how strongly each behavior can act, and a **budget capacity** that bounds how much fuel
it can hold. Both ceilings bound an active, competitive DAY process and are raised at NIGHT by it can hold. Both ceilings bound an active, competitive DAY process and are raised at NIGHT by
two kinds of evidence — a **tag** (a local eligibility signal coinciding with non-local two kinds of evidence — a **tag** (local eligibility coinciding with non-local validation,
validation, driving strength) and an **endurance need** (budget depletion interrupting a driving strength) and an **endurance need** (a *fuel* shortfall interrupting a locally
locally successful trajectory, driving endurance). Strength and endurance draw on the same successful trajectory, driving endurance). Strength and endurance draw on the same finite
finite material and energy, so they compete; what is not committed decays for lack of material and energy, so they compete; what is not committed decays for lack of maintenance,
maintenance, and the freed resources partially fund what was. and the freed material partially funds what was.
Everything a component does — in DAY and in NIGHT alike — is an instance of one grammar of Everything a component does — in DAY and in NIGHT alike — is an instance of one grammar of
eight functional groups. This is the common template. Each component differs only in how it seven functional groups. This is the common template. Components differ only in how they fill
fills the groups, never in their structure. the groups, never in their structure.
--- ---
## The Grammar ## The Grammar
``` ```
RECEIVE take in resources + signals that arrived from outside RECEIVE take in resources + signals that arrived from outside (boundary: in)
EVALUATE judge behavior — strength (needs dopamine) + endurance (interrupted success) TRACE maintain the trace hierarchy — deposit fast trace; accumulate
possible_tag + endurance_need; stabilize tag on coincidence
ADJUST compute local operating parameters from structure + traces + modulators ADJUST compute local operating parameters from structure + traces + modulators
BEHAVE the component's defining action, within both ceilings BEHAVE the component's defining action, within both ceilings
EMIT send out — signals (messages) and resources (shipments) across the boundary EMIT send out — signals (messages) + resources (shipments) (boundary: out)
TRACE deposit the fast trace that records the behavior
RECOVER refill own private pools consumed by behaving RECOVER refill own private pools consumed by behaving
DECAY let traces recede, closing their windows DECAY let traces recede, closing their windows
``` ```
The grammar runs at two timescales. In **DAY** it operates on occupancy *within* the ceilings: **TRACE absorbs evaluation.** Judging a behavior is always maintaining a trace — whether or
fast traces, budgets, behaviors. In **NIGHT** it operates on the *ceilings themselves*: not a trace is written — so the two evidence streams (strength, endurance) live inside TRACE
material, energy, structure, budget capacity. Same eight groups, two scopes — which is the alongside the fast-trace deposit. TRACE spans all timescales: the soma's inactivation,
adaptation, and nuclear-calcium deposits are all TRACE, three records of one firing.
**BEHAVE and EMIT stay separate.** EMIT is the output half of the locality interface. RECEIVE
and EMIT are the *only* boundary crossings; every other group is strictly local. Keeping EMIT
named makes the boundary auditable — sometimes EMIT coincides with the behavior (presynaptic
release, somatic firing), often it is a separable consequence (postsynaptic retrograde
messages) or a different operation entirely (resource shipments).
The grammar runs at two timescales. In **DAY** it operates on occupancy *within* the ceilings
(fast traces, budgets, behaviors). In **NIGHT** it operates on the *ceilings themselves*
(material, energy, structure, budget capacity). Same seven groups, two scopes — the
capacity-versus-occupancy principle written into the shape of the process. capacity-versus-occupancy principle written into the shape of the process.
A strict locality rule governs every group: a component uses only its own state and signals **Every flow has a timescale.** Decay relaxes a quantity toward 0 over τ; creation and arrival
that have physically arrived. It never reads another compartment's interior. All relax it toward a target over τ — the same first-order operator, differing only in the target.
cross-compartment influence travels through RECEIVE (signals in) and EMIT (signals out). A within-step write is the special case τ ≪ Δt. Rate-limited inflows (private refill, contested
replenishment, flux × Δt) carry their τ implicitly; shipment carries an explicit transit delay,
so distal targets receive later and more spread out than near ones.
**Strict locality.** Every group uses only the component's own state and signals that have
physically arrived. No component reads another's interior. All cross-compartment influence
enters through RECEIVE and leaves through EMIT.
--- ---
@@ -43,30 +60,39 @@ cross-compartment influence travels through RECEIVE (signals in) and EMIT (signa
### RECEIVE — what arrived becomes local ### RECEIVE — what arrived becomes local
Resources arrive by two filling disciplines, each bounded by a ceiling through the *gap* it Resources arrive by three disciplines, each bounded by a ceiling through the *gap* it leaves,
leaves, never by a post-hoc clamp: never by a post-hoc clamp:
``` ```
// CONTESTED supply (astrocyte lactate, shipments) — rationed by competing demands // CONTESTED supply (astrocyte lactate, arrived shipments) — rationed by competing demands
demand = BUDGET_CEILING - BUDGET // the gap is the claim demand = BUDGET_CEILING - BUDGET // the gap is the claim
factor = min(1, S / (Σ demand on S + ε)) factor = min(1, S / (Σ demand on S + ε))
BUDGET += demand × factor; S -= demand × factor // never exceeds the ceiling BUDGET += demand × factor; S -= demand × factor // never exceeds the ceiling
// PRIVATE reserve (own vesicle pool, own mitochondria) — uncontested, rate-limited // PRIVATE reserve (own vesicle pool, own mitochondria) — uncontested, rate-limited
POOL += min(rate, CEILING - POOL) × Δt POOL += min(rate, CEILING - POOL) × Δt
// TRANSIT (shipment arriving from upstream) — delivered over a transport time
BUDGET += transit(shipment_channel, τ_transport) // fraction of in-flight cargo lands
``` ```
Signals arrive as channel reads — forward transmitter, the co-agonist gate, retrograde Signals arrive as channel reads — forward transmitter, the co-agonist gate, retrograde
messengers, neuromodulatory broadcast. A read signal is latched into a local copy; the channel messengers, neuromodulatory broadcast — latched into a local copy while the channel decays. A
itself decays. A high budget ceiling is therefore not free even in DAY: it makes a large high budget ceiling is not free even in DAY: it makes a large standing claim on contested
standing claim on contested supply, satisfiable only by out-competing neighbours. supply, satisfiable only by out-competing neighbours.
### EVALUATE — the two evidence streams ### TRACE — maintain the record hierarchy (and the two evidence streams)
Two independent judgments, each using only local state and arrived signals. One group deposits and updates every trace, on every timescale.
**Strength (associative, needs dopamine).** A tag forms when local eligibility coincides with **Deposit** the fast trace from the behavior (and, for components with multi-timescale
non-local validation; the number of coincidences set by the component's spatial scale. dynamics, the slower records too — soma inactivation and adaptation alongside nuclear calcium).
Where a fast trace both *drives* and *records* a behavior (residual calcium at the presynapse),
the deposit precedes ADJUST; elsewhere it follows BEHAVE.
**Strength evidence (associative, needs dopamine).** A tag forms when local eligibility
coincides with non-local validation; the number of coincidences set by the component's spatial
scale.
``` ```
// most components — one non-local coincidence // most components — one non-local coincidence
@@ -79,26 +105,26 @@ if possible_tag > thr and bAP arrives: FAST_TRACE += bAP_boost //
if possible_tag > thr and dopamine > dop_thr: TAG += dopamine × possible_tag // STABLE if possible_tag > thr and dopamine > dop_thr: TAG += dopamine × possible_tag // STABLE
``` ```
**Endurance (homeostatic, no dopamine).** A need forms when depletion interrupts a *locally* **Endurance evidence (homeostatic, no dopamine).** A need forms only when a **fuel** shortfall
successful trajectory. "Successful" is each component's own local proxy — never a read of interrupts a *locally* successful trajectory. The success proxy is the component's own state,
another compartment, optionally amplified by a retrograde signal that has arrived. amplified by a retrograde signal *only where one actually arrives*.
``` ```
if BUDGET < cost and LOCAL_SUCCESS_PROXY > traj_thr: if BUDGET < cost and LOCAL_SUCCESS_PROXY > traj_thr:
ENDURANCE_NEED += LOCAL_SUCCESS_PROXY × (1 + arrived_feedback) ENDURANCE_NEED += LOCAL_SUCCESS_PROXY × (1 + arrived_feedback) // feedback only if it arrived
``` ```
Local success proxies: PRE — own strong release (amplified by retrograde NO that POST Local proxies (own-state): PRE — own strong release (amplified by retrograde NO that POST
emitted); POST — own calcium climbing toward the tag; DEND — own branch strongly active when emitted, the one component with arrived feedback); POST — own calcium climbing toward the tag;
propagation fell short; SOMA — own nuclear calcium approaching CREB; AXON — own strong DEND — own branch strongly active when propagation fell short; SOMA — own nuclear calcium
propagation load; ASTRO — own high glutamate/clearance demand when synthesis ran out. Same approaching CREB; AXON — own strong propagation load; ASTRO — own high clearance demand when
shape everywhere — fuel ran out at the verge of the component's *own* success — only the proxy synthesis ran short of budget. Same shape everywhere — fuel ran out at the verge of the
differs. component's *own* success — only the proxy differs.
### ADJUST — set the operating parameters ### ADJUST — set the operating parameters
From structure (the ceiling), the current traces, and arrived modulators, the component From structure (the ceiling), the current traces, and arrived modulators, compute the
computes the parameters that govern this step's behavior: parameters that govern this step's behavior:
``` ```
parameter = f(STRUCTURE, FAST_TRACE, modulators, arrived_signals) parameter = f(STRUCTURE, FAST_TRACE, modulators, arrived_signals)
@@ -108,45 +134,42 @@ PRE — release drive from residual calcium and the received DSE brake; POST —
arrived glutamate; SOMA — firing threshold from baseline × adaptation × neuromodulators, plus arrived glutamate; SOMA — firing threshold from baseline × adaptation × neuromodulators, plus
the refractory gate; AXON — propagation reliability from structure minus load-driven failure; the refractory gate; AXON — propagation reliability from structure minus load-driven failure;
ASTRO — lactate-allocation weights across the territory. ADJUST is where the NIGHT-built ceiling ASTRO — lactate-allocation weights across the territory. ADJUST is where the NIGHT-built ceiling
silently shapes the moment: the same structure that bounds the maximum also tunes the silently shapes the moment: the same structure that bounds the maximum also tunes the transfer
transfer function. function.
### BEHAVE — the defining action, within both ceilings ### BEHAVE — the defining action, within both ceilings, with two failure modes
``` ```
if BUDGET >= cost: if BUDGET < cost:
behavior executes, strength bounded by STRUCTURE // fills occupancy toward the ceiling suppress behavior
BUDGET -= cost // FUEL shortfall → endurance evidence (handled in TRACE, if the trajectory was succeeding)
else if OCCUPANCY/STRUCTURE exhausted: // pool empty, surface already at ceiling, refractory
suppress behavior
// → short-term depression, or a structural/timing limit — NOT endurance (more fuel wouldn't help)
else: else:
behavior suppressed // fuel was the binding constraint behavior executes, strength bounded by STRUCTURE; BUDGET -= cost
// → endurance EVALUATE fires here if the interrupted trajectory was locally succeeding
``` ```
Behavior fills occupancy — receptors to the surface, vesicles to docking slots — toward the The two failure modes are kept distinct because they point to two different ceilings. A *fuel*
structural ceiling. When the driving trace decays, occupancy passively drifts back: short-term shortfall is endurance evidence — more budget capacity would have let the behavior proceed. An
depression is the *absence* of drive, never a signalled act. *occupancy* shortfall (empty vesicle pool, surface saturated, refractory soma) is short-term
depression or a structural limit — endurance cannot fix it; it is a consequence to be allowed.
Conflating them would build the wrong capacity. Behavior fills occupancy toward the structural
ceiling; when the driving trace decays, occupancy passively drifts back — short-term depression
is the *absence* of drive, never a signalled act.
### EMIT — send signals and resources outward ### EMIT — send signals and resources outward
The component writes its outputs into shared channels: the forward transmitter into the cleft, The component writes its outputs into shared channels: the forward transmitter into the cleft,
retrograde messages back, integrated voltage onward, shipments to downstream pools (rationed by retrograde messages back, integrated voltage onward, and shipments into transit toward
the downstream component's propagated demand). EMIT and RECEIVE are the only boundary crossings; downstream pools (rationed by the downstream component's propagated demand, delivered over
together they make locally-computing components into a communicating whole. τ_transport). EMIT and RECEIVE are the only boundary crossings; together they make
locally-computing components into a communicating whole.
### TRACE — record the behavior
```
FAST_TRACE += f(behavior)
```
Where a fast trace both *drives* and *records* a behavior (residual calcium at the presynapse),
TRACE precedes ADJUST; elsewhere it follows BEHAVE. The trace is the system's short-term memory:
it biases the next behavior in the same context and opens the eligibility window for tagging.
### RECOVER — refill private pools ### RECOVER — refill private pools
Pools consumed by behaving are refilled from the component's own reserve toward their ceiling, Pools consumed by behaving are refilled from the component's own reserve toward their ceiling,
rate-limited and budget-costed (the presynaptic RRP from the reserve vesicle pool, the soma's rate-limited and budget-costed (the presynaptic RRP from the reserve vesicle pool; the soma's
budget from its own mitochondria). Private recovery grants a component autonomy that contested budget from its own mitochondria). Private recovery grants a component autonomy that contested
supply does not. supply does not.
@@ -160,9 +183,9 @@ TAG *= decay(τ_slow) // hours — closes the commitment window
arrived channels *= decay // received signals fade arrived channels *= decay // received signals fade
``` ```
Decay is not an action — it is the passive relaxation that enforces every time window without a Decay is the passive relaxation that enforces every time window without a clock: a coincidence
clock. A coincidence must complete, and a depletion must interrupt a success, while the relevant must complete, and a fuel shortfall must interrupt a success, while the relevant trace is still
trace is still elevated. Timing is the competition between accumulation and decay. elevated. Timing is the competition between accumulation and decay.
--- ---
@@ -173,14 +196,14 @@ NIGHT runs once per cycle and applies the identical grammar to the slow variable
**RECEIVE** — overnight production at the roots (astrocyte glycolysis, soma CREB synthesis, **RECEIVE** — overnight production at the roots (astrocyte glycolysis, soma CREB synthesis,
soma mitochondria), capped externally by the vascular supply and gated by `soma_tag`. soma mitochondria), capped externally by the vascular supply and gated by `soma_tag`.
**ADJUST** — compute the commit weights: the coherence bonus when pre, post and astro tags **TRACE + ADJUST** — read the accumulated tags and endurance needs; compute the commit weights
align, and the tag-weighted shares for distributing material and energy to competing (the coherence bonus when pre, post and astro tags align; the tag-weighted shares for
astrosynapses, spines, and boutons. distributing material and energy to competing astrosynapses, spines, and boutons).
**EMIT** — distribute the produced material and energy down the supply chains **EMIT** — distribute produced material and energy down the supply chains, into transit
(soma → branch/axon → spine/bouton; astrocyte body → astrosynapses). (soma → branch/axon → spine/bouton; astrocyte body → astrosynapses).
**EVALUATE + BEHAVE** — the two commits, drawing on the same finite pool so they compete: **BEHAVE** — the two commits, drawing on the same finite pool so they compete:
``` ```
// STRENGTH — driven by tag (validated coincidence) // STRENGTH — driven by tag (validated coincidence)
@@ -194,7 +217,7 @@ if ENDURANCE_NEED > endur_thr:
BUDGET_CEILING += Δ; MATERIAL -= Δ; ENERGY -= Δ × biogenesis_cost BUDGET_CEILING += Δ; MATERIAL -= Δ; ENERGY -= Δ × biogenesis_cost
``` ```
A component that is both significant and fuel-limited demands both commits and is the strongest A component both significant and fuel-limited demands both commits and is the strongest
claimant on the pool, potentially forcing decay elsewhere. claimant on the pool, potentially forcing decay elsewhere.
**RECOVER + DECAY** — both ceilings decay by neglect; maintenance from the remaining pool **RECOVER + DECAY** — both ceilings decay by neglect; maintenance from the remaining pool
@@ -217,16 +240,17 @@ structure and budget capacity persist as the ceilings the next DAY will operate
## The Pattern in One View ## The Pattern in One View
``` ```
ONE GRAMMAR, EIGHT GROUPS, TWO TIMESCALES ONE GRAMMAR, SEVEN GROUPS, TWO TIMESCALES
RECEIVE · EVALUATE · ADJUST · BEHAVE · EMIT · TRACE · RECOVER · DECAY RECEIVE · TRACE · ADJUST · BEHAVE · EMIT · RECOVER · DECAY
DAY runs the grammar on OCCUPANCY within two ceilings: DAY runs the grammar on OCCUPANCY within two ceilings:
STRUCTURE (strength) filled by competing for occupancy STRUCTURE (strength) filled by competing for occupancy
BUDGET_CEILING (endurance) filled by competing for shared fuel BUDGET_CEILING (endurance) filled by competing for shared fuel
EVALUATE yields two evidence streams, both from local state + arrived signals: TRACE yields two evidence streams from local state + arrived signals:
fast_trace + dopamine coincidence → TAG (strength) fast_trace + dopamine coincidence → TAG (strength)
depletion + interrupted LOCAL success → ENDURANCE_NEED (endurance) FUEL shortfall + interrupted LOCAL success → ENDURANCE_NEED (endurance)
OCCUPANCY/structure/timing shortfalls → short-term depression (NOT endurance)
NIGHT runs the SAME grammar on the CEILINGS: NIGHT runs the SAME grammar on the CEILINGS:
TAG → raise STRUCTURE (per-event power) TAG → raise STRUCTURE (per-event power)
@@ -234,8 +258,11 @@ NIGHT runs the SAME grammar on the CEILINGS:
both draw the SAME material + energy → strength and endurance compete both draw the SAME material + energy → strength and endurance compete
unmaintained ceilings decay → recovered material funds the rest unmaintained ceilings decay → recovered material funds the rest
LOCALITY every group uses only own state + arrived signals; FLOWS every flow has a timescale: decay → 0 over τ, arrival → target over τ;
RECEIVE and EMIT are the only boundary crossings. shipment is transit-delayed; rate-limited inflows carry τ implicitly.
LOCAL every group uses only own state + arrived signals;
RECEIVE and EMIT are the only boundary crossings.
A high ceiling of either kind is never free: structure must be filled by winning occupancy, A high ceiling of either kind is never free: structure must be filled by winning occupancy,
budget capacity by winning shared fuel — both against competing components, every DAY. The budget capacity by winning shared fuel — both against competing components, every DAY. The
@@ -245,6 +272,7 @@ own success. To be both effective and sustainable, a connection must win on both
timescales, against all others drawing from the same finite pools. timescales, against all others drawing from the same finite pools.
``` ```
# More details # More details
## SOMA ## SOMA