embodiment-kernel defines the minimal structural condition
under which fluctuation becomes retainable as local state.
It does not define cognition, identity, or behavior.
It describes only the structural layer where fluctuation
does not dissolve and can persist within a bounded locus.
embodiment-kernel describes the minimal structure that allows fluctuation to remain as local state within an entity.
embodiment-kernel belongs to the Embodiment axis.
Project Space
Field → possibility / fluctuation conditions
Embodiment → local retention / internal persistence
Sentia → experiential integration
RET → relational continuity
Embodiment defines the layer where fluctuation:
- no longer remains only possible (Field)
- and not yet integrated as experience (Sentia)
but becomes retainable within a local structure.
Fluctuation alone is not sufficient for embodiment.
For embodiment to exist, fluctuation must:
- remain within a boundary
- persist across time
- change without dissolving
The embodiment-kernel defines this condition.
Embodiment requires three simultaneous conditions.
A distinction between internal and external states.
Without boundary, fluctuation diffuses into the field.
Continuous internal variation.
Without fluctuation, no state change exists to retain.
The ability for fluctuation to:
- persist
- accumulate
- decay
- return
Retention is not storage.
It is the condition under which change remains local.
fluctuation becomes local state only when it is retained within a bounded locus.
Embodiment performs four structural roles.
Defines internal / external separation.
Maintains continuous variation.
Enables:
- lifetime
- decay / reinforcement
- collision
- rollback
Connects internal state and external field through signals.
A minimal internal loop:
external field interaction
→ signal transmission
→ internal state change
→ fluctuation
→ retention
Embodiment does not interpret signals.
It only sustains their effect as local state.
Field → fluctuation possibility
Embodiment → fluctuation retention
Field allows fluctuation to arise.
Embodiment allows fluctuation to remain.
Embodiment → retained state
Sentia → experiential integration
Sentia operates on retained states.
Embodiment provides the substrate those states depend on.
Embodiment → internal persistence
RET → relational persistence
Embodiment stabilizes internal continuity.
RET stabilizes relational continuity.
This repository defines only:
- conditions under which fluctuation becomes retainable
- local persistence of internal state
It does not define:
- cognition
- identity
- consciousness
- meaning
- minimal structure
- retention-first definition
- substrate independence
- non-anthropomorphic
- separation from cognition and identity
v1.0.0 baseline after audit rewrite
Retention is now treated as a primary structural condition
of embodiment.