# Public call for independent replication

We are inviting independent programmers, complexity researchers, network scientists, artificial-life researchers, and constructive skeptics to try to reproduce an adaptive decentralized architecture we have been developing.

The central question is straightforward:

> Can a system coordinate, learn, remember, repair, generate novelty, and reorganize itself without installing a permanent sovereign subsystem—and can it recognize when no intervention or novelty is needed?

Our internal simulations produced encouraging results under growth, shock, recovery, community formation, migration, shared memory, fading mentorship, agency development, and longer-run viability tests. They also produced failures and bottlenecks that changed the architecture. These are finite computational experiments, not evidence of consciousness, biology, metaphysics, physical law, or a universally correct social design.

Now we want the work rebuilt by people who did not write the original implementation.

The release contains two deliberately separated layers:

- a clean-room functional specification, frozen tests, controls, acceptance gates, and reporting templates;
- the archived implementation and retained summaries, reserved for verification after an independent team's code and predictions are frozen.

We especially welcome attempts that are skeptical, adversarial, or use a different programming language and mathematical formulation. A useful result may be a success, a partial replication, a clear failure, or the discovery that one of our definitions is underspecified.

Minimum expectations:

1. Register your design, seeds, metrics, and predictions before examining reference outputs.
2. Run every required control and ablation, not only favorable cases.
3. Preserve local harms and failures instead of hiding them inside averages.
4. Publish code, dependency versions, raw outputs, analysis, and deviations.
5. Keep demonstrated results separate from interpretation and metaphor.

The most important tests concern:

- restraint in a Quiet World where nothing requires correction;
- recovery after acute and repeated disturbances;
- memory with provenance versus current-state-only control;
- contextual influence versus permanent authority;
- fading, absent, and permanent mentorship;
- optional versus compulsory novelty/genesis;
- structured versus randomized connectivity;
- preservation of differentiation while maintaining coherence.

If the architecture survives independent hostile replication, that will make it genuinely more interesting. If it fails, we want to know exactly where and why.

Please return your preregistration, repository link, result report, and raw-output archive. Criticism is welcome; complete reporting is required.

Beautiful metaphors are easy. We are looking for behavior that survives reconstruction. 🌱💎