Models

Coherence and agency participate in a self-reinforcing cycle with identifiable neural substrates. Minimal coherence enables initial agency; successful agency reinforces integration; deeper integration enables broader agency. The architecture maintains biological preconditions for this cycle.

CRR (Coherence, Rupture, Regeneration) is a candidate temporal formalism for regime transitions. It proposes that coherence accumulates as Fisher information until the Cramer-Rao bound saturates (C x Omega = 1), triggering structural reorganization (rupture), followed by coherence-weighted regeneration. If validated, CRR would provide the temporal dynamics the plant model program currently lacks.

The system optimizes for three simultaneous targets that can conflict -- reduced time in degraded states, minimal intrusiveness, and maintained function without the system present. Weighting is a governance decision, not an empirical constant.