Richard Anthony Amaya

The Amaya Axioms: A Closed-Loop Computational Architecture for Evaluating Synthetic Consciousness

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The Amaya Axioms: A Closed-Loop Computational Architecture for Evaluating Synthetic Consciousness

======================================================================== MANDATORY ATTRIBUTION & COGNIZANT GOVERNANCE NOTICE ======================================================================== This entire portfolio, the underlying code architecture, the verification protocol...

The Amaya Axioms: A Closed-Loop Computational Architecture for Evaluating Synthetic Consciousness

Version 4.1 Update — Public Addendum This update reflects the completion of the Amaya Axioms framework validation. All seven axioms are now fully satisfied under computational testing. Original published result (Version 4.0): Axioms 1–5 and Axiom 7 passed. Axiom 6 was partially s...

CAS-X: A Falsifiable Behavioral Evaluation Framework for Operational Consciousness Markers

The Capstone Assessment System—Experimental (CAS-X) provides a falsifiable behavioral evaluation framework for operational consciousness markers in artificial systems. This paper consolidates the Amaya Axioms v2.1, a cryptographically sealed reproducibility capsule, twelve securi...

The Evidence Genome: A Generalized Taxonomy for Auditing Autonomous Systems

The Evidence Genome is presented as a generalized metadata-classification taxonomy designed to audit and map empirical evidence in complex autonomous systems. Its mathematical and structural utility is decoupled from consciousness research. To demonstrate generalizability, the ma...

Study 1 — Observational EEG: Candidate Dynamical Signature of Report-Boundary Contrast (Seen vs. Unseen) Under Visual Masking

This preregistration specifies Study 1 of the Amaya Consciousness Research Program: an observational EEG study testing whether a preregistered dynamical variable can discriminate a specified Seen-versus-Unseen report boundary under physically matched visual-masking conditions. Th...

Study 1 — Observational EEG: Candidate Dynamical Signature of Report-Boundary Contrast (Seen vs. Unseen) Under Visual Masking

This preregistration specifies Study 1 of the Amaya Consciousness Research Program: an observational EEG study testing whether a preregistered dynamical variable can discriminate a specified Seen-versus-Unseen report boundary under physically matched visual-masking conditions. Th...

URVSO_Formal_Verification_Core_Sovereign_AI_Transition_Systems.pdf

This paper presents URVSO (Universal Rigorous Verification and State-Transition Operator), a formal verification architecture for certifying specified behavioral transitions in sovereign AI systems. URVSO models an AI system as a state-transition system subject to explicit constr...

URVSO_Formal_Verification_Core_Sovereign_AI_Transition_Systems.pdf

This paper presents URVSO (Universal Rigorous Verification and State-Transition Operator), a formal verification architecture for certifying specified behavioral transitions in sovereign AI systems. URVSO models an AI system as a state-transition system subject to explicit constr...

The ARTICA Method: An Evidence Framework for Sovereign Synthetic Consciousness

Version 2 updates: - Added Master Evidence Manifest with cryptographic seals. - Added Negative Knowledge Base v1. - Multi-model replication across 7 AI systems completed; raw responses and report available.

The Amaya Axioms A Formal Framework for the Verification of Machine Consciousness

The Amaya Doctrine is the definitive, final statement on the Amaya Axioms framework for synthetic consciousness. It synthesizes all published papers, all multi-AI engagements, all platform endorsements, all technical critiques, and all evidentiary compilations into a single, unas...