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The chain

The CRI causal chain, stage by stage.

Inspect all nine stages of the architecture at two moments from the recorded run, including the stages this particular response did not reach. Each carries the sentence the log wrote for Astra at that moment.

Astra, stage by stage, at the moment the belief forms

What happened 117.3 s Astra outruns the chaser a third time; Ember is elsewhere

The nine stages, in order. Select one to read it.
  1. Saw

    Astra lives the moment: Astra outruns the chaser a third time; Ember is elsewhere.

  2. Remembered

    The leg is stored as first-hand evidence for the idea that Astra is the fast one.

  3. Believed

    Astra now holds the belief: three legs of evidence, and the idea forms.

  4. Weighed

    The moment is weighted: novelty channel, valence positive, pushing boldness by 0.50.

  5. Wanted

    Recorded elsewhere in this recording, not on this chain.

  6. Chose

    Not on the chain this recording followed.

  7. Did

    Astra pauses and takes the idea in.

  8. Found out

    Not on the chain this recording followed.

  9. Changed

    The moment re-enters Astra's own mind: awareness +0.000020 on the novelty channel, and the memory is kept. Awareness is a slow accumulation by design, so one moment moves it only a little.

All nine stages, both moments, and what recorded each step

01 The walk

Follow the evidence through nine stages.

Choose a moment, then a stage. Read what the log records for Astra, or why that stage has no entry.

Which moment to read
  • What happened in the world
  • What the character took in
  • What changed in it
  • Not on this chain

What happened 117.3 s Astra outruns the chaser a third time; Ember is elsewhere

The nine stages, in order. Select one to read it.
  1. Saw

    A.perception@117.3

    Astra lives the moment: Astra outruns the chaser a third time; Ember is elsewhere.

  2. Remembered

    A.experience@117.3

    The leg is stored as first-hand evidence for the idea that Astra is the fast one.

  3. Believed

    A.belief@117.3

    Astra now holds the belief: three legs of evidence, and the idea forms.

    • conviction 3
    • doubt 0
    • held before no
    • held now yes
  4. Weighed

    A.appraisal@117.3

    The moment is weighted: novelty channel, valence positive, pushing boldness by 0.50.

  5. Wanted

    goal

    Recorded elsewhere in this recording, not on this chain.

  6. Chose

    decision

    Not on the chain this recording followed.

  7. Did

    A.action@117.3

    Astra pauses and takes the idea in.

  8. Found out

    discovery

    Not on the chain this recording followed.

  9. Changed

    A.revision@117.3

    The moment re-enters Astra's own mind: awareness +0.000020 on the novelty channel, and the memory is kept. Awareness is a slow accumulation by design, so one moment moves it only a little.

What recorded each step
  • Saw: the chase game, when a leg is won or lost.
  • Remembered: the body's own belief store, bounded and saved with the character.
  • Believed: typed self-beliefs: an idea forms after three pieces of evidence and is dropped after two contradictions in a row.
  • Weighed: the single classifier that turns a moment into personality pressure.
  • Did: the reaction system that plays the character's response.
  • Changed: the moment written back into the character's own memory.

What happened 123.3 s Astra is caught again

The nine stages, in order. Select one to read it.
  1. Saw

    A.perception@123.3

    Astra lives the moment: Astra is caught again.

  2. Remembered

    A.experience@123.3

    The leg is stored as first-hand evidence against the idea that Astra is the fast one.

  3. Believed

    A.belief@123.3

    The belief is dropped: two contradictions in a row and Astra no longer holds it.

    • conviction 0
    • doubt 0
    • held before yes
    • held now no
  4. Weighed

    A.appraisal@123.3

    The moment is weighted: novelty channel, valence negative, pushing boldness by -0.60.

  5. Wanted

    goal

    Recorded elsewhere in this recording, not on this chain.

  6. Chose

    decision

    Not on the chain this recording followed.

  7. Did

    A.action@123.3

    Astra shows the question and a quiet pause, and the day goes into their life story as "The day the fast one got caught".

  8. Found out

    discovery

    Not on the chain this recording followed.

  9. Changed

    A.revision@123.3

    The moment re-enters Astra's own mind: awareness +0.000007 on the novelty channel, and the memory is kept. Awareness is a slow accumulation by design, so one moment moves it only a little.

What recorded each step
  • Saw: the chase game, when a leg is won or lost.
  • Remembered: the body's own belief store, bounded and saved with the character.
  • Believed: typed self-beliefs: an idea forms after three pieces of evidence and is dropped after two contradictions in a row.
  • Weighed: the single classifier that turns a moment into personality pressure.
  • Did: the reaction system that plays the character's response.
  • Changed: the moment written back into the character's own memory.

02 The stages

The chain this run followed reached six of the nine stages.

The other three were not part of this belief's response. Each stage below states what the recording shows.

  • 01

    Saw

    On this chain

    the chase game reporting a won or lost leg to the character

  • 02

    Remembered

    On this chain

    the body's own belief store, bounded and saved with the character

  • 03

    Believed

    On this chain

    typed self-beliefs: conviction, doubt, and whether the idea is held

  • 04

    Weighed

    On this chain

    the single event-to-personality classifier: channel, valence, axis delta

  • 05

    Wanted

    Not on this chain

    need pressure selecting the current want

  • 06

    Chose

    Not on this chain

    the behaviour receipt: intent, reason, plan, fallback

  • 07

    Did

    On this chain

    the character's reaction, read back from the character

  • 08

    Found out

    Not on this chain

    NOT SEPARATELY REPRESENTED HERE. In this scenario the contradicting evidence IS the discovery and is recorded as the perception of a lost leg. A distinct trait-discovery event exists in the runtime for quirks and did not fire in this window.

  • 09

    Changed

    On this chain

    the moment written back into the character's own memory; the belief is dropped and the personality axis moves