This is the technical version. For the narrative version told through real-world stories and first-person experience, read the story version.

The companion document (The Architecture of Transcendence: Formal Ontology) defines every term in the architecture with tier classification and formal relationships. It provides:

  • Tier 1 (Primitive): Terms that cannot be defined within the system (e.g., Consciousness, Emotion)
  • Tier 2 (Foundational): Terms defined by Tier 1 primitives (e.g., Emotional State, Frame, Values)
  • Tier 3 (Composite): Terms built from Tier 2 (e.g., Hijacked Frame, TAP Pipeline, ESM Stage)
  • Tier 4 (Applied): Terms built from Tier 3 (e.g., Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Vicious Spiral, The Inversion)

See: world-model-ontology.md (full version) and world-model-ontology-public.md (public version).