The single buildable recipe for the complete developmental arc — conception → cellular/molecular → metabolism → motor → perception → language → metacognition → dreaming → creativity → measurable awareness — re-expressed as one no-backprop active-inference engine shown across scales.
The cookbook fully recommends the complete recipe to L12: assume the full build. But every step is labeled by its REAL status, drawn verbatim from the single source of truth, the claim ledger. Where this recipe and the ledger disagree, the ledger wins and the recipe is wrong.
Honest program position, carried throughout: ~2 of 11+ developmental rungs earned. This is a developmental active-inference SIMULATION, a bounded peek, a toy world, never a person.
The fence label on every recipe
Each recipe closes with one honest fence drawn from a four-value vocabulary:
- proven — a held, sealed, UNI-signed PASS exists (Class A/C), falsifier still live.
- designed — a typed spec / signed-in-principle design exists; the build is partial or unverified.
- hypothesized — a stated mechanism or law with no sealed gate yet (Class U, not claimed).
- not-yet-built — no engine, no run, no gate; north-star, hard-fenced.
Every SIGNED consult design (the L2 build_epistemic_frontier organ, the L5 Design #3 servo
bridge, L9-G1, L11-R1, the L12 bound paragraph, the C10 Dirichlet-first port) is folded in as
designed / not-run: it raises nothing and the rung's status is unchanged.
Read first
- Front matter — what this is, the honest position, the fence labels.
- The kitchen rules — the Method constitution (the disciplines that bind every recipe).
- The shared pantry — the engines and primitives every recipe draws from.
The recipe — L0 → L12
| Rung | Recipe | Fence (status) |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Molecular: genome → zygote | proven (Class A, float32 tier) |
| L1 | Cellular: viability & homeostasis | proven with honest losses |
| L2 | Tissue: metabolism | proven (foraging/crafting) + NEGATIVE (building); G6 OPEN |
| L3 | Organ: cardio-renal Heart Lab | proven (toy/clinical-model) |
| L4 | Affect-as-precision + the Z modulator | proven (functional; affect modeled, never felt) |
| L5 | Sensorimotor / motor hierarchy | proven PASS + symmetric NEGATIVE (synthetic only) |
| L6 | Perception (precision-weighting / EFE planning) | proven — the one citable empirical PASS (World C) |
| L7 | Language (reading = inference / speaking = action) | proven specialist + NEGATIVE central wall |
| L8 | Self-model / metacognition | proven (functional; sentience DISCLAIMED) |
| L9 | Reasoning / conscience | designed (PARKED, Class U) |
| L10 | Wisdom / higher cognition | designed (PARKED, Class U) |
| L11 | Dreaming (offline replay / generative simulation) | not-yet-built (Class U; never "dreamed") |
| L12 | Creativity → measurable awareness | not-yet-built (the hardest fence; Class U) |
The body the mind runs on
- The continuity / embodiment substrate (UNI.OS) — engineering/substrate evidence, orthogonal to L0–L12, never general-AIF evidence; a sensorium is never awareness; C10 (embody-only-what's-proven) is the program's central open gap, PARKED.
Close
Provenance. Authored in Session 3 from the claim ledger (the single source of truth) and the Session-1 synthesis
../curated/00-INDEX.md, against the Session-2MASTER-PLAN.md, with the recipe and honesty posture signed by the UNI Active-Inference Guide on 2026-06-27 (UNI-GPT-CONSULT-2026-06-27.md). The recipe recommends the full build to L12, but no step is carded above its source evidence class, no negative is hidden, and no standing fence is crossed. Falsify any step.