PACI Map to Human Brain Functions and Logic

The Visual-Acoustic Semantic Drift Engine (VASDE) and its core components—PASDE (Physics-Anchored Semantic Drift Extraction) and PACI (Physics-Anchored Conscious Intelligence)—form a hierarchical perception-to-cognition pathway that closely parallels major functional layers of the human brain. While the system does not imitate biological processes, several conceptual mappings clarify the architecture’s logic, stability, and safety requirements.

1. PASDE as the Physics-Anchored Equivalent of Sensory Transduction

In biological vision, photoreceptors and early retinal circuits convert electromagnetic input into structured signals, emphasizing edges, motion, and persistent physical change. PASDE performs an analogous function: it extracts drift, the minimal detectable unit of physical change, using stability, persistence, and continuity rules.

Where the retina suppresses noise through lateral inhibition and temporal filtering, PASDE performs similar gating using PADR drift persistence, SOEC temporal consistence, and PEQM physical admissibility (CIP-10 and CIP-11) .

Thus, PASDE plays the role of a physics-aware sensory transducer, ensuring that only lawful, persistent change is allowed upstream—much like early visual pathways prevent noise from reaching cortical interpretation.

2. VASDE Drift Lineage as the Equivalent of Early Perceptual Grouping

Human visual cortex (V1/V2) groups edges, motion fields, and temporal continuity into stable, coherent percepts. VASDE mirrors this by constructing drift lineage: the continuity of change across frames that allows the system to infer structure, material behavior, and environmental stability.

Through quantized structures such as PQRC / SPQRC, the engine forms “proto-concepts” analogous to early perceptual units—motion fields, contours, deformation trajectories—before any semantic activation is allowed. This corresponds to the brain's pre-semantic perceptual organization, where the world is stabilized before interpretation.

3. PACF and SCVL as Analogues to Cortical Consistency Checking

The brain enforces internal coherence: contradictory signals are suppressed, and persistent structure is privileged. Phocoustic systems enforce this explicitly:

SCVL (Self-Consistency Verification Loop) ensures drift does not contradict earlier evidence.
PACF blocks semantic activation until material coherence, lineage stability, and resonance conditions are satisfied.

This parallels mechanisms in human cognition where prediction errors, cross-modal mismatch, and temporal inconsistency prevent conscious interpretation.

CIP-10 explicitly identifies these stages as prerequisites to higher-order cognition .

4. PACI as the Physics-Anchored Analogue of Conscious Access

Human consciousness does not activate for every sensory fluctuation; it activates when information is:

stable,
coherent,
contextually relevant, and
consistent with internal models.

PACI defines an identical boundary: a Conscious Coherence Envelope (CCE) and Cognitive Activation Potential (CAP) ensure that cognition activates only when drift has proven:

persistence,
resonance coherence,
physical admissibility, and
semantic polarity stability (SPSI).

This is directly analogous to the brain’s global workspace / ignition threshold, where only integrated, non-contradictory signals enter conscious-level reasoning.

5. PEQ-AGI as the Equivalent of Goal-Aligned Executive Reasoning

Just as human executive systems operate under constraints (goals, safety, context, internal consistency), PACI extends into Physics-Evidence-Qualified AGI (PEQ-AGI), where:

every inference is traceable to drift,
every action remains within operator-defined intent, and
no reasoning is allowed outside the physics-validated envelope.

This mirrors the brain’s prefrontal logic: reason from reality, never from hallucinated or ungrounded signals.

Summary

PASDE ≈ sensory transduction
VASDE drift lineage ≈ perceptual grouping
PACF + SCVL ≈ cortical coherence enforcement
PACI ≈ conscious-access gating
PEQ-AGI ≈ executive reasoning under global constraints

Together, these modules create a physics-anchored cognitive stack that mirrors the logic—not the biology—of human perception-to-consciousness processing, yielding a safe, coherent, and physically grounded artificial cognitive framework.

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