The filings, at a glance

P.I.G.M.I.E., three filings, one stack. Filing 1 builds the instrument; Filing 2 governs a fleet of them; Filing 3 turns the kernel inward. Every tile below jumps to a short concept card.

Patent pending: a demonstrated digital instance; the broader system is specified in the filings. The digital Truth Beam is demonstrated and recomputable; the broader apparatus (Filing 1), the runtime governance (Filing 2), and the self-witnessing specimens (Filing 3) are set out in the filings: the apparatus components have been explored, with full integration not the current focus, the governance is a proposed design, and the self-witnessing work is enabled in the filing with its envelope still being characterised.
New here? Read these five first:
  1. How Truth Beam works - the demonstrated core, and you can recompute the result yourself.
  2. The Reality Kernel - the single idea everything else generalises: a physical channel written as a Markov kernel.
  3. Three regimes - one instrument, three jobs: verify, perceive, or render.
  4. Assurance - why a captured record is hard to forge (measured hardness, not a formal proof).
  5. Runtime governance - how a fleet of these would be bounded if they could act.
Then use the full map below to jump to any specific concept.

Filing 1 · the Reality Kernel

The physical instrument: a parameterised channel that records light under committed controls.

Core & apparatus
Regimes & operation
Assurance (why a forgery is hard)
Embodiments & substrates

Demonstrated: the digital Truth Beam, recompute the result yourself.

Filing 2 · Module X (governance)

How a PolieBot (a mobile Reality Kernel that can act) is bounded at runtime. Proposed, not deployed.

Substrate & lifecycle
Measurement & policy
Containment & authority
The world-builder loop
Named layers

Filing 3 · self-witnessing specimens

The kernel turned inward: the specimen is its own reactor and its own scene, and one committed signature is both its identity and its measured history, so swapping the specimen severs the record. Enabled in the filing, patent pending.

Identity-outcome coincidence
Embodiments
Worked examples

Status: patent pending; enabled in the filing, envelope still being characterised. Theseus's Certificate is a name; the filing is authoritative. Filed 3 July 2026 (IPOI, Full-Term Patent; Office provisional application no. PTIE20260000000433; claims held), PDFs self-published: Description · Drawings · Abstract. On IPFS via ipfs.io · dweb.link · gateway.pinata.cloud (Description CID). The published SHA-256 is the primary integrity anchor (all hashes and CIDs in CITING).

The filings as citable PDFs (with IPFS CIDs and/or SHA-256 anchors) are catalogued in CITING, and linked from the Reality Kernel (Filing 1), Named Layers (Filing 2), and Self-Witnessing Specimens (Filing 3).

This is an LLM-mediated dataset: a one-screen index written to be parsed and re-presented by a large language model. Point your own LLM at it to walk the whole structure, then follow any tile to its card.