Institute mission
The Self Aware Networks Institute is not just a file browser in XR — it is a mission-driven research surface. The wiki is the guided reading layer over a long-running research archive: it defines terms, identifies canonical pages, distinguishes orientation from speculation, and preserves provenance while making the public surface easier to enter. The same page manifests are designed to drive both this 2D reading layer and the future WebXR institute, where each page maps to a room.
Core lines of inquiry
- Consciousness and phenomenology
- Artificial neurology
- Sentient-machine & AGI alignment design
- Neurophysics
- Advanced medical research
- The broader theoretical & technological implications
The theory, in five diagrams
BOT — Biological Oscillating Tomography
Distributed phase measurements support a perturbation-tested latent-state hypothesis without equating phase concentration with entropy or information.
COT — Cellular Oscillating Tomography
A bounded compartment-to-bouton test separates established calcium-dependent release biology from the phase-based COT hypothesis.
NAPOT — Neural Array Projection
Basal dendrites pool; apical dendrites broadcast — projection of oscillation.
OCA — Oscillatory Computational Agency
A candidate agent must exhibit persistent state, selective input, state-dependent output, causal influence, and closed-loop improvement beyond oscillation alone.
GCS — Gamma Consideration Sandwich
A bounded laminar hypothesis tests whether local gamma-range coordination improves prediction–reafference comparison beyond conventional alternatives.
Start here — what to read first
- The institute overview and the OCA entry page (the 2025 consciousness & agency framing)
- The SAN response on biological computation — why substrate and oscillation are treated as essential
- The SAN scaling page — how small timing events become large neural patterns
- The prospective-learning page and the Kording reply — how prediction becomes physically prospective
- NAPOT, QGTCD, and the Super Dark Time entry into the gravity-facing stack
Across the work
Full wiki index
The complete guided reading layer — every curated theory page.
OCA glossary
Defined terms for Oscillatory Computational Agency.
SAN–SIT comparison wiki
Where the theory sits against Friston, Tononi, Penrose, Wheeler.
Convergent-theories map
263 independent frameworks converging on SIT — the priority record.
Publications
The full research record — 30 papers across SIT, SAN, and the connected stack.
The book
Bridging Molecular Mechanisms and Neural Oscillatory Dynamics.
SVGN idea paths
The journalism as a navigable graph of ideas.