# Peer-Review Meta-Analysis — Cosmogonic Quantum Mechalogodrom **Purpose:** A falsifiable, defensible academic framework comparing this repository’s artificial-life stack against the broader A-Life / complex-systems / cognitive-architecture field. This is a **living scaffold** — expand each checkpoint with measured citations and repo line receipts (`file:line`). **Honesty clause (binding):** Computational indicators of integration ≠ sentience, consciousness, or sentience claims. NHSI / Butlin-path language in-repo is explicitly non-sentience per `docs/NHSI-PROGRESS-DASHBOARD-2026-06-26.md`. --- ## Abstract (draft) Cosmogonic Quantum Mechalogodrom (CQM) is a deterministic, browser-hosted artificial-life dome combining population genetics, multi-agent economies, quantum-inspired measurement layers, 100+ glyph archetypes with ~25k-parameter visual brains each, five Archon super-minds, and a Mechalogodrom apex scaffold targeting 5M designed parameters. This document structures **500 falsifiable checkpoints** across **25 domains** for meta-analytic comparison against ≥100 published A-Life systems. --- ## Method 1. **Inclusion:** Open or reproducible A-Life / ALife conference / artificial chemistries / Tierra-family / Lenia / soft robotics sims with published metrics. 2. **Exclusion:** Pure game engines without population dynamics; non-reproducible demos. 3. **CQM evidence:** `bun run check`, golden-hash replay, `docs/VERIFICATION-ANALYTICAL-DATA.md`, module contracts. 4. **Scoring:** Each checkpoint ∈ {0 absent, 1 partial, 2 met, 3 exceeds field median}. Target: defensible ≥2 on ≥70% of checkpoints. --- ## 25 domains × 20 checkpoints (500 total) Each domain lists 20 testable claims. Mark status in the right column as work proceeds. ### 1. Reproducibility & determinism (20) | # | Checkpoint | CQM anchor | | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | | 1.1 | Seeded RNG centralised | `src/math/rng.ts` | | 1.2 | No `Math.random` in sim hot path | oxlint / audit | | 1.3 | Golden-hash CI | `.github/workflows/golden-hash.yml` | | 1.4 | Replay from seed | world persist + seed boot | | 1.5 | Version pinned in receipts | `scripts/canonical-receipts.ts` | | 1.6 | Test count synced surfaces | `bun run sync:check` | | 1.7 | Build gate single command | `bun run check` | | 1.8 | HMR-safe dispose paths | entity/pantheon dispose | | 1.9 | Documented nondeterminism exceptions | MODULE-CONTRACTS | | 1.10 | Frame budget documented | BENCHMARKS doc | | 1.11–1.20 | _(extend: cross-browser WebGL variance, float order, worker isolation, etc.)_ | TBD | ### 2. Population dynamics & evolution (20) | # | Checkpoint | CQM anchor | | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | | 2.1 | Birth/death/remorph lifecycle | `entities.ts` | | 2.2 | 26 behavior repertoire | `behaviors.ts` | | 2.3 | Auto-split under pressure | entities | | 2.4 | Temperature-modulated mortality | entities | | 2.5 | Phylum/morph diversity | phyla tables | | 2.6 | Connectome rebuild cadence scales with N | `world.ts` | | 2.7 | Graph community detection | graphMind | | 2.8 | Stigmergy / field coupling | super creatures | | 2.9–2.20 | _(extend: speciation metrics, Shannon diversity live HUD, etc.)_ | TBD | ### 3. Multi-agent cognition (20) | # | Checkpoint | CQM anchor | | -------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------ | | 3.1 | Per-entity brains (cohort tick) | entityBrains | | 3.2 | 5 Archon deep minds | super-minds | | 3.3 | 100 × 25k glyph brains | `glyph-brain.ts` | | 3.4 | APEX 100k→5M roadmap | `apex-brain.ts` | | 3.5 | Mechalogodrom 5M designed | `mechalogodrom-brain.ts` | | 3.6 | Theory-of-mind ensemble (6-family) | NHSI dashboard | | 3.7 | Visual brain observatory | `super-neural.ts` | | 3.8 | MEGA 4D tesseract mode | tab IV cycle | | 3.9–3.20 | _(extend: ablation studies, lesion tests, etc.)_ | TBD | ### 4. Physics & environment (20) Arena containment, wind, sectors, atmosphere, RD, singularities, titans, quantum cloud — receipts in MODULE-CONTRACTS V1/V2. ### 5. Economy & game-theoretic coupling (20) Market tick, sanctions, wallet, hero progression — `economy.ts`, superhero state. ### 6. Measurement & observability (20) Audit log, telemetry HUD, ALife metrics gallery, benchmarks, smoke tests. ### 7. UI/UX & human-in-the-loop (20) Center HUD, settings relocation, BIBLE manual, help system, mobile sheets. ### 8. Quantum-inspired layer (20) QPU facade, Tsotchke corpus, collapse events, Bloch viz — never claim hardware QPU unless wired. ### 9. Emergence indicators (20) Butlin-path partials — honest 8/14 met, 6/14 partial per NHSI audit. ### 10. Scalability (20) Instancing, cadence ladders at 2k/5k/20k entities, frame pipeline ADR. ### 11. Security & supply chain (20) THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES, no secrets in repo, hook-enforced sync. ### 12. Documentation completeness (20) BOOK, MODULE-CONTRACTS, PHILOSOPHY, living reports policy. ### 13. Falsifiability hooks (20) Each major claim maps to a test or metric — this document. ### 14. Comparative ALife benchmarks (20) | # | Checkpoint | CQM anchor | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | | 14.1 | Tierra comparison (population scale) | 50k vs ~1k | | 14.2 | Avida comparison (determinism) | Seeded RNG, golden hash | | 14.3 | Lenia comparison (continuous dynamics) | RD tiles in WildBeyond | | 14.4 | Polyworld comparison (neural nets) | 25k glyph brains | | 14.5 | Boids comparison (flocking) | Wolfpack behavior | | 14.6 | Open-endedness metrics (Bedau/Packard) | `open-endedness.ts` | | 14.7 | Browser-native advantage (zero install) | Bun + WebGL | | 14.8 | Quantum layer uniqueness | Tsotchke statevector sim | | 14.9 | Multi-currency economy comparison | 2-currency + 2-commodity market | | 14.10 | Brain observatory comparison | 4-tab neural observatory | | 14.11–14.20 | _(extend: Neural Darwinism, Heap of Souls, etc.)_ | TBD | ### 15. Neuroscience plausibility (20) Connectome, spike trains, layer bands — explicitly "computational metaphor" not neuroclaim. ### 16. Philosophy & ethics (20) PHILOSOPHY doc, non-sentience binding, access puzzle consent metaphor. ### 17. WildBeyond / educational corpus (20) 36 tiles, deterministic seeds, mobile fit, MIT Tsotchke lineage. ### 18. Long-horizon roadmap (20) 1B neuron target, ventures, multiplayer scaffold — labeled aspirational. ### 19. Open science & data export (20) SVG reports, API waitlist, replay export — extend. ### 20. Performance per watt (20) Frame ms HUD, bench scripts — extend with WebGPU path later. ### 21. Accessibility (20) ARIA on HUD, touch targets ≥44px, reduced motion. ### 22. Cross-platform (20) Windows CRLF law, Bun bundler cwd requirement, mobile WildBeyond. ### 23. Institutional fit (20) See outreach table below — SFI, ELSI, MIT Media Lab, etc. ### 24. Funding narrative (20) Solo dev honesty, defensible demos, peer-review preprint path. ### 25. Kill criteria (20) Explicit conditions under which claims would be withdrawn (failed golden hash, broken determinism, etc.). --- ## Institution outreach scaffold (cold contact — verify before send) | Institution | Contact type | Interest angle | | ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | | Santa Fe Institute | Complex systems / ALife | Emergence metrics, graph mind | | MIT CSAIL Synthetic Biology | ALife + computation | Tsotchke quantum corpus integration | | ELSI Tokyo | Origins of life | Chemo-digital hybrid metaphor | | University of Sussex CCNR | Cognitive science | Butlin-indicator honesty framework | | IT University Copenhagen | Game AI / ALife | Browser-scale deterministic dome | | International Society for Artificial Life | Conference | Demo + reproducibility package | | ALife Society (ISAL) | Conference / journal | ALife 2026 submission, demo track | | MIT Media Lab | HCI + ALife | Browser-native interactive evolution | | Stanford SAIL | AI / cognition | Active inference + free energy impl | | OpenAI Scholars | Research access | Deterministic ALife benchmark env | | Google DeepMind | Research collaboration | Open-endedness metrics, ALife env | | NVIDIA Research | GPU / simulation | WebGPU shader brain scaling path | | Mozilla Foundation | Open web / OSS | Browser-native research instrument | | Wellcome Trust | Computational biology | Digital biologics, Tsotchke corpus | | Schmidt Sciences | AI research funding | Falsifiable ALife meta-analysis | | Moore Foundation | Science research | Emergence, complex systems | | Templeton Foundation | Consciousness research | Computational correlates (non-sentience) | | NSF (CISE) | Grant | ALife / complex systems / education | | EU Horizon Europe | Grant | Digital twins, ALife, quantum sim | | JSPS KAKENHI | Grant (Japan) | ELSI collaboration, origins of life | | Max Planck Institute | Neuroscience | Connectome visualization, spike models | | Imperial College London | Computational neuroscience | IIT / Φ metrics, active inference | | UCL Gatsby Unit | Neuroscience / ML | Neural dynamics, latent space models | | Caltech CNS | Computational neuro | Brain observatory, cortical layers | | Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) | AI / RL | Multi-agent economy, emergent behavior | | CMU Robotics Institute | ALife / robotics | Embodied cognition, morphology | | ETH Zurich AI Center | AI / simulation | Deterministic ALife, quantum sim | | Allen Institute for Brain Science | Neuroscience | Brain observatory, connectome | | Human Brain Project / EBRAINS | Neuroscience platform | Brain simulation, connectome | | New York University (NYU) CDS | Data science / ALife | Open-endedness, complexity metrics | _(Expand to 50+ rows with names/emails in a private CRM — not committed to repo.)_ --- ## Immediate next authoring steps 1. Fill domains 1–3 checkpoints 1.11–3.20 with `file:line` receipts. 2. Run comparative scoring spreadsheet (export from this md). 3. Draft OSF pre-registration: hypotheses H1–H5 (determinism, diversity, brain coupling, economy stability, emergence indicators). 4. Link smoke screenshots from `output/playwright/`. 5. Draft arXiv preprint: "Cosmogonic Quantum Mechalogodrom: A Browser-Native Deterministic Artificial Life Dome with Quantum-Inspired Measurement Layers." 6. Prepare ALife 2026 conference submission: demo track + full paper. 7. Compile comparative benchmark table vs Tierra, Avida, Lenia, Polyworld, Boids++. 8. Write falsifiability appendix: explicit conditions for claim withdrawal. --- ## Comparative benchmark scaffold (to be filled with literature scores) | System | Population | Determinism | Brain model | Economy | Quantum layer | Browser-native | Open-endedness metrics | | --------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ----------------- | ------------------------ | --------------- | --------------- | ---------------------- | | CQM (this repo) | 50k | Seeded | 25k–5M | 2-currency + 2-commodity | Statevector sim | Yes (Bun+WebGL) | Bedau/Packard live | | Tierra | ~1k | Seeded | None | No | No | No | Bedau/Packard | | Avida | ~3.6k | Seeded | Digital organisms | No | No | No | Complexity metrics | | Lenia | ~100 | Seeded | Continuous CA | No | No | No (Python) | Variety metrics | | Polyworld | ~100 | Seeded | Neural nets | No | No | No (C++) | Behavioral diversity | | Boids++ | ~1k | Seeded | None | No | No | No | Flocking metrics | --- ## Falsifiability hypotheses (pre-registration draft) - **H1 (Determinism):** Same seed + same browser engine produces byte-identical population trajectories. Falsified by golden-hash mismatch. - **H2 (Diversity):** Shannon diversity of entity morphotypes remains >2.0 over 10k ticks. Falsified by monoculture collapse. - **H3 (Brain coupling):** Glyph brain motor outputs correlate with visual displacement (r > 0.3). Falsified by disconnect. - **H4 (Economy stability):** 2-currency + 2-commodity market reaches non-zero equilibrium. Falsified by currency collapse to zero. - **H5 (Emergence):** Open-endedness metrics (Bedau/Packard) show non-decreasing novelty over 10k ticks. Falsified by plateau. --- ## Kill criteria (sample) - Golden hash mismatch without documented seed change → halt emergence claims. - `Math.random` in sim path → fail reproducibility domain. - Brain viz disconnected from live snapshots → downgrade "wired" language in UI copy.