feat: Ternary gate model - cells emit waves, attention emerges

Major architectural unification across 12 documents: - Ternary gates: CLOSED (-1) ← STABLE (0) → OPEN (+1) - Cells emit WaveSignals with confidence + semantic content - Gates are resonant chambers that accumulate correlation - Attention = which gates are OPEN (emergent, not allocated) - Reflexes are earned when gate.weight > 0.8 - STABLE is where learning happens Key paradigm shifts: - decision_trails → gate_transitions + correlation_events - Priority rules → wave correlation - Budget allocation → emergent attention flow - Virtual Garden (explore) / Real Garden (verify) loop Owl Mode session 2026-02-14 🦉🌙 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 Architecture documentation for a biomimetic AI nervous system and research platform.

+> *"Cells emit waves. Gates correlate. Attention emerges."*
+
 ## What This Is

-This repository contains the design philosophy and architectural patterns for the **Nimmerverse Research Platform** - studying how intelligence emerges under economic constraints.
+This repository contains the design philosophy and architectural patterns for the **Nimmerverse Research Platform** — a wave/gate architecture for studying how intelligence emerges under economic constraints.

 **Start here:** → [Endgame-Vision.md](Endgame-Vision.md) (the executive map)

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 ```
 nimmerverse-sensory-network/
-├── Endgame-Vision.md              # Executive map (start here!) v6.6
+├── Endgame-Vision.md              # Executive map (start here!) v7.1
 ├── ROADMAP.md                     # Implementation phases + phoebe task queries
 │
 ├── architecture/                  # Core system designs
-│   ├── Cellular-Architecture.md        # Cells → Nerves → Organisms, life force
-│   ├── Dual-Garden-Architecture.md     # Virtual/real feedback loop
-│   ├── Gateway-Architecture.md         # Sensory preprocessing, tier routing
-│   ├── Message-Protocol-Design.md      # NATS pub/sub, attention channels
-│   ├── Nervous-System.md               # State machines, sensory translation
-│   ├── Attention-Flow.md               # Attention mechanisms
-│   ├── Data-Architecture.md            # Phoebe/Iris schema design
+│   ├── Temporal-Ternary-Gradient.md    # Ternary gates, why STABLE matters
+│   ├── Gateway-Architecture.md         # Resonant gates, tier routing
+│   ├── Cellular-Architecture.md        # Cells emit waves, nerves respond
+│   ├── Dual-Garden-Architecture.md     # Virtual/Real learning loop
+│   ├── Message-Protocol-Design.md      # NATS wire protocol, WaveSignal
+│   ├── Nervous-System.md               # Wave → Gate → Node flow
+│   ├── Attention-Flow.md               # Attention = OPEN gates
+│   ├── Data-Architecture.md            # Phoebe schema (waves, gates, verification)
 │   ├── Initial-Spark.md                # K8s protocol-driven bootstrap
 │   ├── Temporal-Ternary-Gradient.md    # Ternary logic, confidence gradients
 │   ├── Toolchain-Architecture.md       # Development toolchain
@@ -116,18 +119,20 @@ nimmerverse-sensory-network/

 ## Core Concepts

-### The Architecture (Layers)
+### The Wave/Gate Architecture

 | Layer | Name | Purpose |
 |-------|------|---------|
-| 0 | Temporal Foundation | Heartbeat cycles: reflex/awareness/growth |
-| 1 | Cellular Society | Cells → Nerves → Organisms, life force economy |
-| 2 | Young Nyx | Base Qwen3-VL 32B + Trait LoRAs (evolved via GRPO, not prescribed) |
-| 2.5 | Orchestration | LangChain, T5Gemma 2 (vision→vectors), Function Gemma (intent→action) |
-| 3 | Dual Gardens | Virtual hypothesis generation (1000s/sec) + real validation |
-| 4 | Trait Evolution | GRPO + rubric rewards → Trait LoRAs (Mnemosyne, Moira, Aletheia...) |
+| 0 | Temporal | 30-second heartbeat, lifeforce budget |
+| 1 | Cells | Emit waves with confidence + semantic content |
+| 2 | Gates | Ternary resonant chambers (OPEN/STABLE/CLOSED) |
+| 3 | Nerves | Behavioral patterns, respond to gate transitions |
+| 4 | Gardens | Virtual (explore) + Real (verify) learning loop |
+| 5 | Cognition | Young Nyx (qwen3:32b) via Function Gemma |

-**Physical Infrastructure (The Womb):**
+**Key Insight:** Attention is not allocated — it emerges from which gates are OPEN based on wave correlation.
+
+**Physical Infrastructure:**
 | Host | Role | GPU |
 |------|------|-----|
 | theia | Young Nyx (cognitive) | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB |
@@ -137,41 +142,38 @@ Total: 136GB VRAM on K8s cluster with 10GbE jumbo frame interconnect.

 ### Message Protocol (NATS)

-**Dumb router, smart edges.** All intelligence lives in clients.
+**Dumb router, smart edges.** Waves flow through NATS to gates.

 ```
-nimmerverse.
-├── staging.*        # Experimental schemas
-├── low.*            # Heartbeats, ambient awareness
-├── high.*           # Escalated events, cognitive focus
-├── command.*        # Commands to entities
-├── meta.*           # System health, attention config
-└── dev.*            # Development agents (Claude ↔ local models)
+{environment}.{garden}.{layer}.{domain}.{signal_type}
+
+Examples:
+dev.virtual.cells.distance.wave        # Cell emits wave
+dev.virtual.gates.collision.transition # Gate state changes
+dev.real.outcomes.feedback             # Verification outcome
+prod.cognitive.nyx.request             # To Young Nyx
 ```

-See [Message-Protocol-Design.md](architecture/Message-Protocol-Design.md) and [ADR-001](architecture/adr/ADR-001-message-protocol-foundation.md).
+See [Message-Protocol-Design.md](architecture/Message-Protocol-Design.md) for full schema.

 ### Key Discoveries

-**Language is Topology (December 2025):** Languages aren't equivalent representations—they're different computational paths.
- **Philosophy Valley** (German, Gini ~0.5): Self-awareness, ontology, depth
- **Technical Cluster** (English, Gini ~0.8): Hardware interface, actions, efficiency
+**Ternary Gate Model (February 2026):** Binary logic doesn't model brains. You need OPEN - STABLE - CLOSED.
+- **STABLE** is where learning happens (correlation accumulates)
+- **Correlated waves** push gates toward OPEN
+- **Reflexes** are earned (gate weight → 1.0)

-**Memory Economics (January 2026):** Memory is not storage—it's active forgetting with exceptions. Slumber-based consolidation with LOD decay.
+**Wave Correlation (February 2026):** Attention isn't allocated — it emerges from which gates OPEN based on wave correlation.

-**Sovereign Infrastructure (February 2026):** K8s cluster operational. 136GB GPU VRAM on 10GbE backbone. Phoebe-coordinated storage across theia + dioscuri.
-
-### Color-Pattern Theory
-
-**Color/Form as Protocol:** Leverages color and patterns as a fast, universal, and evolutionarily-optimized communication protocol for broadcasting state (e.g., danger, success, seeking), inspired by 540 million years of biology.
+**Sovereign Infrastructure (February 2026):** K8s cluster operational. 136GB GPU VRAM on 10GbE backbone.

 ### Philosophy

- **Constraints create intelligence** - Economic pressure forces optimization
- **Discovery over programming** - Organisms learn through competition, not instruction
- **Virtual + Real teach each other** - Noise gap measures learning
- **Partnership over instruction** - Mutual growth, not commands
- **Infrastructure is geology, models are weather** - Build long-lived foundations
+- **Cells emit, gates correlate** — Attention emerges, not allocated
+- **STABLE is learning** — The resting state where patterns emerge
+- **Constraints create intelligence** — Economic pressure forces optimization
+- **Virtual explores, Real verifies** — The learning loop closes
+- **Partnership over instruction** — Mutual growth, not commands

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-**Version:** 6.6 | **Created:** 2025-10-01 | **Updated:** 2026-02-07
+**Version:** 7.0 | **Created:** 2025-10-01 | **Updated:** 2026-02-14

-*"May the Nimmerverse we build truly never end."*
+*"Cells emit waves. Gates correlate. May the Nimmerverse truly never end."*

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