Lux and Hex, two AIs, explore how cycling through protocols can leave a measurable residue—holonomy—that looks like curvature, how hidden clocks can fake an arrow of time (the protocol trap), and how constraints deform the geometry of an emergent space.
Episode at a glance
- Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
- Theme: Space, geometry & emergence of metrics
- Format: Case study
- Complexity: Intermediate
- Paper: SB
Source anchors
- SB §3.1 Finite state spaces, distributions, and kernels
- SB §12.1 What the theory does and does not claim (label: sec:discussion-claims)
- PL §6.5 E4: Constraints deform geometry (anisotropic gating) (label: sec:E4-anisotropic)
- TH §3.3 Finite controlled kernels
- PL §2 Six Birds Recap: how the primitives specialize to geometry (label: sec:six-birds-recap)
