One Reality Kernel, several objectives: the same instrument can verify, perceive, or render, run statically or yoked.
P.I.G.M.I.E. Filing 1 · patent pendingThe Reality Kernel is one physical channel. It consists of an emitter, an optional reactor, a detector, and a controller.
What changes between uses is not the hardware. What changes is the objective the channel is optimised for, and how tightly it couples to the scene.
Every use emits a convolution bundle. A convolution bundle is the joint, time-ordered record of what was emitted and what was observed. The bundle has the same format across regimes, so a later evaluator reads each recording in the same way.
A regime is an objective mode for the shared physical channel. The three regimes are Truth Beam, Limager, and Reality Transform.
The Truth Beam is the verification regime. Its job is to make a genuine recording maximally distinguishable from a forgery. Its security property is empirical hardness: resistance to successful forgery by a declared attacker family under a declared budget, which is measured, not assumed. The Truth Beam attests the provenance of the physical interaction. It does not attest the semantic truth of the scene. It is the one regime with a demonstrated, recomputable instance, documented separately at truthbeam.com.
The Limager is the perception regime. Its job is to estimate what is present in the scene from the physical responses. It uses the same physical channel for active sensing, 3D sensing, and semantic analysis. It asks what can be inferred from the scene.
The Reality Transform is the controllable rendering regime. Its job is constrained rendering: driving the produced response toward a declared target through the physical channel. It asks how the physical channel can drive the scene or output toward a specified response.
A stance is the meta-objective that governs how a regime is run. It does not replace the regime. It sets the operating discipline for that regime.
Iris is the information-maximising stance. It has no adversarial agenda. It pairs with the Limager.
Eve is the adversarial-hardening stance. It red-teams the system for forgery resistance under declared attacker families and budgets. It pairs with the Truth Beam.
Demeter is the managed-development stance. It expands capability when the system is stable. It contracts toward stabilisation when risk is elevated. It pairs with the Reality Transform.
The named pairings are the canonical defaults. In principle a stance is selectable per regime, so a run is fully specified by its regime, its stance, and its yoke depth together.
The Filing 2 governance work reuses Iris, Eve, and Demeter as training-curriculum modes.
Harmonia is a coupling modifier. It is the yoke depth alpha. It is orthogonal to regime choice, so it applies whichever regime is running.
At alpha = 0, operation is static. The device interrogates a scene, and the bundle records what the scene is. Device and scene contributions remain separable.
As alpha approaches 1, operation becomes yoked. The device and the scene drive and entrain one another toward a joint dynamical state. The bundle records how the scene responds.
The achieved coupling is meter-assessed. It is measured from the record. It is not merely declared.
The Truth Beam, the verification regime, is the demonstrated and recomputable instance. The broader regime, stance, and yoke envelope is described and enabled in the filings, with the physical envelope still being characterised.
The Reality Kernel · the apparatus and formalism these regimes run on.
truthbeam.com · Truth Beam, the demonstrated verification instance.