01In design
Genesis
Can an artificial system construct an operational understanding of reality without receiving a complete, predefined human ontology?
Current phaseDefining the first testable hypothesis and how it will be measured
Questions
before answers.
The Mycellium research agenda — grounded in real systems, accountable to evidence.
01 / Research agendaGenesis is the central program
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Memory
Memory is not stored experience. It is the process through which experience changes the system that remembers.
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Learning to Defer
Intelligence is not measured only by what a system can do. Knowing when to act, defer, abstain, or ask is part of the measure.
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Interpretability
We do not ask every internal representation to resemble human language. We ask whether it recurs, predicts, causes, generalizes, and survives scrutiny.
Genesis / Phase 0Designing the first
Designing the first
testable experiment.
Research question
Can an artificial system construct an operational understanding of reality without receiving a complete, predefined human ontology?
Current evidence
None yet from Genesis itself. The laboratory’s other projects produce grounded dynamics and structured episodes, but no result has been transferred into Genesis as an established finding.
Not demonstrated
No ontology constructed by the system itself has been demonstrated. Genesis is not a functioning system, and nothing here should be read as a capability already shown.
Next experiment
Fixing the first narrow hypothesis, the environment in which it can be tested, what counts as a prescribed human distinction, and the measurement that decides the result.
Current phase
Defining the first testable hypothesis and how it will be measured, including what result would weaken or overturn it.
03 / Open questionsWhat keeps the laboratory awake
Can an artificial system construct its own operational reality without inheriting a prescribed human ontology?
How does experience change the system that remembers?
Can a system learn when to act, defer, abstain, or request more information under uncertainty?