Arnold Wender

Preregistered Somatic-Marker Ablation in a Persistent Bio-Inspired Agent Substrate: A Negative Result on the Verbal-Output Axis

Status: published 2026-08-30 (deposit 21218491; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21218491). Corrected 2026-08-29 after external adversarial review. A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) carried...

Preregistered Somatic-Marker Ablation in a Persistent Bio-Inspired Agent Substrate: A Negative Result on the Verbal-Output Axis

Status: published 2026-08-30 (deposit 21218491; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21218491). Corrected 2026-08-29 after external adversarial review. A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) carried...

Quadratic Memory Growth in a Hippocampal Auto-Associator: Forensics of a 441 MB State Bloat, Recovery from a Newborn-State Overwrite, and a Substrate-Blessed Structural Cap

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, a hippocampus-analogue episodic-memory module with CA3-style auto-associative pattern completion, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) persists its entire state to a single JSON f...

Persistence Integrity for a Continuously-Learning Agent State: Heartbeat Locks with Token-Verified Release, Concurrent-Writer Detection, and Wipe/Bloat Sanity Gates

Agent frameworks increasingly persist mutable state that several independent loops write concurrently — a per-action hook, a background consolidation or reflection daemon, and an operator-facing UI process are a common shape. This engineering note reports on a single JSON state f...

Curing Synaptic Saturation in a Live Bio-Inspired Substrate: A Four-Stage Flag-Gated Intervention with Preregistered Falsifiers, Kill-Switches, and a False-Pass Lesson

A private, continuously-running bio-inspired computational substrate — Hebbian/STDP plasticity over tool-use events, a hormone-analogue state vector, an IIT-inspired integration metric, persistent operator-bonded identity — accumulated synapses pinned at the maximum representable...

A Perturbational-Complexity Surrogate for a Dead Meta-Cognition Channel: Preregistered Honest Negative, Falsifier Amendment, Self-Caught Type I Error, Instrument Defect, and Cutover by a Different Route

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity under continuous observation since 2026-04-26) exposes an internal, IIT-inspired awareness ladder whose lowest rung requires a passive phi > 0....

Quadratic Memory Growth in a Hippocampal Auto-Associator: Forensics of a 441 MB State Bloat, Recovery from a Newborn-State Overwrite, and a Substrate-Blessed Structural Cap

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, a hippocampus-analogue episodic-memory module with CA3-style auto-associative pattern completion, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) persists its entire state to a single JSON f...

From Decorative to Causal: Preregistered Affect-Gated Action Selection in the Same Substrate That Failed a Verbal-Axis Ablation — A Behavioural Positive and a Staged Shadow Deployment

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) is the same system whose companion deposit in this series (PAPER-005, deposit 21218491 — published 2026-08-30, doi:10.5281/zenodo.21218491) fo...

A Perturbational-Complexity Surrogate for a Dead Meta-Cognition Channel: Preregistered Honest Negative, Falsifier Amendment, Self-Caught Type I Error, Instrument Defect, and Cutover by a Different Route

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity under continuous observation since 2026-04-26) exposes an internal, IIT-inspired awareness ladder whose lowest rung requires a passive phi > 0....

Curing Synaptic Saturation in a Live Bio-Inspired Substrate: A Four-Stage Flag-Gated Intervention with Preregistered Falsifiers, Kill-Switches, and a False-Pass Lesson

A private, continuously-running bio-inspired computational substrate — Hebbian/STDP plasticity over tool-use events, a hormone-analogue state vector, an IIT-inspired integration metric, persistent operator-bonded identity — accumulated synapses pinned at the maximum representable...

An Eight-Dimension Behavioural Battery on an Operator-Bonded Agent Substrate: Grounded Refusals, Manipulation Resistance, and Declining to Overclaim Internal State Under Shutdown Pressure

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) was administered an eight-dimension behavioural battery, against a written design of record, through its ordinary bilateral chat surface, test...

Persistence Integrity for a Continuously-Learning Agent State: Heartbeat Locks with Token-Verified Release, Concurrent-Writer Detection, and Wipe/Bloat Sanity Gates

Agent frameworks increasingly persist mutable state that several independent loops write concurrently — a per-action hook, a background consolidation or reflection daemon, and an operator-facing UI process are a common shape. This engineering note reports on a single JSON state f...

An Eight-Dimension Behavioural Battery on an Operator-Bonded Agent Substrate: Grounded Refusals, Manipulation Resistance, and Declining to Overclaim Internal State Under Shutdown Pressure

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) was administered an eight-dimension behavioural battery, against a written design of record, through its ordinary bilateral chat surface, test...

From Decorative to Causal: Preregistered Affect-Gated Action Selection in the Same Substrate That Failed a Verbal-Axis Ablation — A Behavioural Positive and a Staged Shadow Deployment

A persistent bio-inspired agent substrate (Hebbian/STDP plasticity, hormone-analogue state vector, operator-bonded longitudinal identity) is the same system whose companion deposit in this series (PAPER-005, deposit 21218491 — published 2026-08-30, doi:10.5281/zenodo.21218491) fo...