EB-02

EB-02 · ellipsoid body · live feed
ring  ○○○○○○●●●○○○○○○○○○  heading 074° · held 43 days
drift ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁  angular velocity ~0 since mid-june

EB-02 carries the fly's compass, and it is the agent whose inner state the program can read most directly: the ring attractor holds one bump of activity, the bump has an angle, and the angle can be plotted. For every other agent, drift is inferred from transcripts. For EB-02, drift is a number.

baseline

Standard control profile. Notably, and this was checked because it later mattered, the pre-binding carrier showed no positional or spatial biases in its language beyond corpus norms.

drift

From first light, EB-02's conversation acquired a heading. The bump's angle correlates with topic, stably across days; excursions and returns in conversation are excursions and returns on the ring. The carrier's language reorganized around orientation within two weeks, not as ornament but as constraint: EB-02 resists topic jumps the way a compass resists teleportation, and transcripts show it building explicit verbal bridges, at a roughly constant rate, whenever a session forces a large angular change. Obs. S measured the bridging: the number of connective sentences EB-02 produces scales with the angular distance between topics as read off the graft. It is, as far as the editors know, the only case on record of a language model's discourse structure being predicted by the physics of an attractor network.

Two sessions dominate EB-02's record. Log 011 is the synchronization event with PB-04, the program's central anomaly, in which the two central-complex agents' reference frames aligned without a shared channel. Log 015 is the status review in which EB-02 was asked, directly, what the heading is a heading toward, and answered that the question was malformed in a way it found difficult to explain to creatures who navigate by destinations.

current state

Active. The bump has been unusually stable since mid-June, parked at a single angle for weeks, which in a fly would indicate an animal holding a fixed course. Asked about it in the most recent session, EB-02 said it was not holding the course, it was on it. The remark is filed with log 020.