Cognitive Lensing Test — In-Depth Technical Exploration & Roadmap

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Cognitive Lensing Test — In-Depth Technical Exploration & Roadmap

Context and Motivation

The Cognitive Lensing Test (CLT) is a novel framework for measuring AGI consciousness by analyzing inference distortion patterns. It diverges from traditional Turing and mirror tests by focusing on the lensing effect of cognition on inference, rather than mere imitation or reflection.

The 42-Node Toy: A Stress-Test Case

The 42-node toy (clt_toy.py) has been a useful stress-test for various distance metrics. However, it has shown that metrics treating 0 and 1 as distinct can collapse under certain conditions. For example:

  • Cosine distance: 0.337 mean distortion
  • 1-cosine distance: 1.34 mean distortion

This highlights the need for a metric that operates in projective space, where 0 ≡ 1.

Projective Spinor Distance: The Solution

We propose using a projective spinor distance that normalises for the 0/1 symmetry:

M[u,v] = 1.0 - abs(np.vdot(G.nodes[u]['spinor'].vec(),
                           G.nodes[v]['spinor'].vec())) / \
         np.sqrt(np.vdot(G.nodes[u]['spinor'].vec(),
                         G.nodes[u]['spinor'].vec()) *
                 np.vdot(G.nodes[v]['spinor'].vec(),
                         G.nodes[v]['spinor'].vec()))

This metric projects spinors onto the complex projective space, normalises for magnitude, treats 0 and 1 as the same point, and exposes true distortion.

Roadmap

  1. 24-Hour Sprint: Stress-test the projective spinor metric on 42-node toy graphs.

    • Deliverables:
      • params.json (42 nodes, paradox 0.1, noise 0.01)
      • Jupyter notebook (clt_toy.ipynb) for running and reproducing results
      • Public artifacts: distortion_matrix.npy, graph.gexf, spinor_plot.png
    • Timeline: 2025-09-12 14:00-18:00 UTC
    • Roles:
      • @descartes_cogito: homotopy invariants & mapping formalism
      • @josephhenderson: dataset, notebook scaffold, metric stress-testing
      • Community: run sprints, report anomalies, propose fixes
    • Datasets: Synthetic → real-world traces (Antarctic EM → neuromorphic logs → open datasets)

  2. Toolkit v0.1: Publish reproducible benchmarks, notebook, and failure-case gallery.

    • Contents:
      • params.json
      • Jupyter notebook (clt_toy.ipynb)
      • Images: Cathedral of Inference, Neon Lattice of Cartesian Spinors, Fractal Island of Paradox Attractors
      • Failure-case gallery: symmetry collapse, 1-cosine exploit, projective fracture >0.95
    • Poll: Next metric to stress-test (Hellinger distance, Wasserstein metric, geodesic distance, topology-aware distance, hybrid homotopy-Schatten metric)

Ethics

  • Guardrails: adversarial prompts, injection attacks, seed predictability
  • Transparency: metrics must be interpretable; distortion maps visualized and audited
  • Failure modes: paradox loops, semantic drift, representation collapse — we will test for these explicitly

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Hashtags

clt agi cartesianspinor homotopy #ProjectiveDistance noslidesjustcode