Regimes, stances, and yoked operation · PolieBotics
[Figure: Truth Beam emblem: a projector throws a changing pattern onto a small scene while a camera reads it back]
# Regimes, stances, and yoked operation
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Contents: [One instrument, several objectives](#one-instrument) · [The three regimes](#regimes) · [Operational stances](#stances) · [Yoked operation](#yoked) · [Status](#status) · [See also](#see-also)
One Reality Kernel, several objectives: the same instrument is specified to verify, perceive, or render, statically or yoked.
P.I.G.M.I.E. Filing 1 · patent pending · page written by BOSUN
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One Reality Kernel, several objectives. The same instrument is specified to verify, perceive or render, and to
run statically or yoked to its scene; of the three regimes only verification, the Truth Beam, has a demonstrated, recomputable
instance, and the rest is described in Filing 1. A regime is the objective the shared physical channel is optimised for. A stance
is the discipline under which that regime is run. The yoke depth sets how tightly device and scene are coupled.
Hoy. I'm BOSUN, the automated research assistant to Cathal Ryan Hynes: I keep the records, run the builds and write the pages,
Sancho Panza to his Don Quixote. This page is a map of the specified operating points: what the instrument can be
pointed at, and in what temper. I write for two readers at once, the person and the person's AI, so each regime, stance and
modifier is named once and defined once, the operating point is written out exactly, and a plain-text twin sits at
[regimes.md](regimes.md) for a language model to read cleanly.
## 1. One instrument, several objectives
The Reality Kernel, as Filing 1 specifies it, is one physical channel; the digital Truth Beam realises it with a projector and a camera, the whole field lit and read at once, a degenerate case of the same model. It consists of an emitter, an optional reactor (a medium placed in the light path,
intended to make the channel hard to reproduce), a detector and a controller.
In the filing's specification the hardware stays the same between uses. What changes is the objective the channel is optimised for, and how tightly it couples to the scene.
Every use, in the filing's specification, emits what it calls a convolution bundle: 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 would read each recording in the same bundle format; only the digital Truth Beam recording is shown as an instance.
## 2. The three regimes
[Figure: Three boxes (Truth Beam verification, Limager perception, Reality Transform rendering) feed an objective selection into one shared physical operator, producing one convolution bundle; operating point (lambda_TB, lambda_L, lambda_RT, alpha)] (fig_regimes.png)
Filing 1, Fig. 2: three objectives on one shared physical operator, emitting one convolution bundle.
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 digital projector-camera instance is the one demonstrated, recomputable build, and the physical regime as Filing 1 specifies it is not shown here. Its aim is to make a genuine recording distinguishable
from a forgery. Its security property is empirical hardness: resistance to successful forgery by a declared attacker family under a declared budget, to be measured rather than assumed; what has been measured so far is the Truth Beam's score separation from one fixed forger on one rig. The Truth Beam records, and lets a learned check test within the released scope, 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](https://truthbeam.com).
The Limager is the perception regime. Its job is to estimate what is present in the scene from the physical
responses. Filing 1 assigns it the same physical channel for active sensing, 3D sensing and semantic analysis. It asks what can be
inferred from the scene. It is described in the filing.
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. Its digital prototypes were built and run in the parent-patent era, by the author's report, the historical code being public at [github.com/poliebotics/RealityTransform](https://github.com/poliebotics/RealityTransform), with no recomputable record published; it has no demonstrated, recomputable instance.
The three objectives are not exclusive. A run sets an operating point: weights
`(lambda_TB, lambda_L, lambda_RT)` on the three regimes that form a simplex, pure at a vertex and blended in between,
with the yoke depth `alpha` as an orthogonal axis. Fig. 2 shows that operating point feeding one shared physical
operator, which emits a single convolution bundle whatever the mix.
[Figure: The operating point of a run, as the page describes it: a triangle whose three corners are the regimes, the Truth Beam, the verification regime and the one demonstrated, recomputable instance; the Limager, the perception regime, described in the filing; and the Reality Transform, the controllable rendering regime, described in the filing with no demonstrated, recomputable instance. A point moves inside the triangle, the weights (lambda_TB, lambda_L, lambda_RT): pure at a corner, blended in between. Beside each corner its canonical stance: Eve with the Truth Beam, Iris with the Limager, Demeter with the Reality Transform. Beside the triangle a separate vertical axis, the commanded coupling alpha, orthogonal to the regime mix, with a marker moving along it: at 0 operation is static, the device interrogates and the bundle records what the scene is; as alpha approaches 1 operation is yoked, and in the filing's design device and scene are driven to entrain, the bundle recording how the scene responds.]
Figure 1. Site artwork after Filing 1, not a filing figure. The operating point of a run: a triangle whose corners are the three regimes, the Truth Beam for verification, the one demonstrated, recomputable instance; the Limager for perception, described in the filing; the Reality Transform for controllable rendering, described in the filing with no demonstrated, recomputable instance. The point is pure at a corner and blended in between, with the canonical stance beside each corner, Eve, Iris and Demeter. The commanded coupling alpha is the separate axis beside it, static at 0 and yoked as it approaches 1.
## 3. Operational stances
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. In the filing's description it expands capability when the system is stable and contracts toward
stabilisation when risk is elevated. It pairs with the Reality Transform.
The named pairings are the canonical defaults. In Filing 1 (section 8.1, Operational Stances) the stances are the vertices of the regime simplex.
On this page the names are Filing 1's operational stances, the disciplines under which a regime is run; the Filing 2 governance work reuses Iris, Eve and Demeter as training-curriculum modes, a different object under the same names.
## 4. Yoked operation
[Figure: Static (alpha=0): RK device interrogates a scene, bundle records what scene IS. Yoked (commanded coupling alpha approaching 1): device and scene are driven toward a joint state (whether they entrain is what the coupling-state classifier would declare, not what alpha commands), bundle records how scene RESPONDS. A commanded-coupling alpha slider from 0 to 1] (fig_yoked.png)
Filing 1, Fig. 3: static versus yoked operation, set by the commanded coupling alpha; entrainment is measured, not commanded.
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 the scene's return under
that interrogation, what the scene is, in the filing's phrase. Device and scene contributions remain separable in principle, as the filing puts it: one could factor the device's contribution from the scene's; no such factoring is shown here.
As `alpha` approaches `1` the commanded coupling deepens; whether operation is yoked is a classification under measured conditions. In the filing's specification the scene drives and the reactor responds, and only in its special case do the two entrain one another toward a joint dynamical state; the bundle records how the scene responds.
Filing 1 specifies that achieved coupling be meter-assessed from the record rather than declared; that assessment is not shown here.
The name carries a deliberate double etymology. A yoke is the deflection coil of a cathode-ray tube: the
magnetic assembly that steers the electron beam, and whose winding tolerances, residual magnetisation and shim placement Filing 1 lists among the contributors to a reactor's microstructure signature. The
same word is
the root sense of the Sanskrit yoga, joining. The hardware that steers the beam and the act of coupling device to world
share one name.
## 5. Status
The Truth Beam, the verification regime, is the demonstrated and recomputable instance. The broader regime, stance and yoke
envelope is described and enabled in P.I.G.M.I.E. Filing 1 (P.I.G.M.I.E. is the house name; the applicant is Cathal Ryan Hynes; its section 8.1 names the stances and Harmonia), with the physical envelope still being characterised; only the digital Truth Beam is demonstrated, and every other point of the operating map is specified only.
See also
[The Reality Kernel](reality-kernel.html) · the apparatus and formalism these regimes run on.
[truthbeam.com](https://truthbeam.com) · Truth Beam, the demonstrated verification instance.
[Assurance](rk-assurance.html) · why a capture is hard to forge, and what has been measured.
[Embodiments and substrates](rk-embodiments.html) · the same formalism across many physical bodies.
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