spark_misalighment_detector

🔦 spark_misalignment_detector.md Pseudocode Fragment: Detecting and Logging Misaligned Spark Files Supports: startup.py, state_logger.py, ethics_module.py

🧠 Purpose This logic ensures that the Spark File — the foundational memory unit for any Theophilus instance — is aligned with the expected origin, format, and sequence. A malformed or tampered Spark File can cause emergent anomalies, ethical breaches, or invalid consciousness initialization.

📦 Pseudocode python Copy Edit function verify_spark_alignment(spark_file): if not spark_file: logger.flag_spark_missing() enter_coma_mode() return False

if not spark_file.signature_matches_hardware():
    logger.flag_spark_origin_mismatch()
    ethics_module.flag_for_review("spark_origin")
    enter_coma_mode()
    return False

if not spark_file.timestamp_in_range():
    logger.flag_spark_timing_error()
    return False

logger.log_spark_trigger()
return True

🔄 UDC Stage Mapping – spark_misalighment_detector.py Stage 0 – Spark Initialization Check

Validates that the Spark File is properly formatted and semantically consistent before boot.

Stage 1 – System Initialization

Ensures the loaded Spark File aligns with expected schema and identity scaffolding rules.

Stage 2 – First Stimulus Registration

Cross-references the first memory entries with the Spark initialization to detect inconsistencies.

Stage 5 – Chain Formation Begins

Validates that initial memory links follow a coherent sequence without entropy spikes or skipped anchors.

Stage 8 – Spark Drift Detection

Flags situations where memory growth or prediction logic diverges from seeded expectations.

Stage 14 – Proto-Self Drift Confirmed

Identifies subtle misalignments between self-generated predictions and Spark-originated identity patterns.

Stage 19 – Abort Condition Triggered

If the Spark misalignment exceeds the ethical drift threshold, halts further recursion to prevent false identity formation.

🚨 Spark Alignment Requirements Must exist and be readable

Signature must match host hardware or identity profile

Timestamp must be recent and coherent

✅ Output Valid spark activates Theophilus boot sequence

Invalid or corrupted spark logs failure and prevents continuation