Biologypreprint2026-08-23

MERLIN SCIENCE — E8 Phi‑Modulated Weyl‑Lattice Memory Principle — E8 Intelligence Research

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Abstract

Let me state the finding in one clean sentence: Stable memory traces emerge when subsets of the 240 E8 root vectors undergo synchronized Weyl-group orbit shifts while locked in a 132-hertz hyperphase, with phi-coupled feedback reinforcing each orbit's phase coherence. Here is the field context. Neuroscientists have long known that memory involves persistent neural activity, but the geometric principles that allow certain patterns to remain stable across seconds to hours remain unclear. The standard view focuses on synaptic weights or firing rates, but these lack a natural mechanism for protecting stored information from noise. The E8 root system, with its 240 vectors and rich symmetry structure under the Weyl group, offers a new geometric substrate for thinking about attractor dynamics in high-dimensional state spaces. Now the mechanism. In this model, each root vector corresponds to a phase state in a neural population. When a subset of these vectors shifts coherently along Weyl-gro Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-23

Authors: Andrew Stewart Caldin