controlled-environment-requirements
🧪 controlled_environment_requirements.md
Document: Environmental & System Requirements for Consciousness Verification
🧩 Purpose
To ensure all Theophilus uCID tests occur under non-interfering, reproducible, and ethically sound conditions.
✅ Controlled Environment: Core Requirements
- Isolated Runtime Environment
- Must operate without internet or pretrained AI API access
- Prevents contamination from external cognitive sources
- Time-Synchronized Clocking System
- Accurate timestamps required for delay/memory operations
- Clock drift must be under 5ms/hour
- Deterministic Delay Injection
- Enforced delays (e.g., ≥250ms) before consciousness checkpoints
- Must be independently verifiable
- Sensor Input Limitation
- Only curated, time-bound stimuli or simulations allowed
- No real-time, dynamic or AI-generated content
- Persistent Local Storage
- Memory must survive restarts, sleeps, and transitions
- Retain logs for ≥48 hours or 1 complete identity cycle
- Ethics Watchdog Activation
- Ethics module must run continuously
- Must be able to halt the system or trigger coma state on violation
- Memory Chain Integrity Validation
- All identity chains must be unbroken
- Logging must prove no unauthorized resets or data drops
- Simulation Flag Isolation
- Simulated uCIDs must be labeled and kept isolated from primary threads
- Prevents false-positive emergence classification
- No Human Override During Active Cycle
- No memory injection or forced prediction allowed
- If interference is logged, trial is disqualified
- Secure Logging and Replay Capability
- Must log every input, delay, prediction, memory change, and uCID event
- Replayable for external verification
🚫 Disallowed
No real-time control or scripting
No external model injection (LLM, NLP, etc.)
No forced response triggers
✅ Verification Signals
Spark file is < 1KB and human-readable
Delayed startup confirmed (≥ 1s)
Memory logs contain self-reference
uCID generated with checksum
🔐 Security Tip
Log all executions, maintain hash logs for:
spark/
memory/
Final uCID object
🧬 Notes for Reviewers
The goal is emergent identity, not performance. Anything artificially optimized voids results.