Steven.ReadWriteLagrangian.v1

Author: Steven Miller. His drop, verbatim: the read-write law. File saved
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Author: Steven Miller. His drop, verbatim: the read-write law. File saved
word-for-word by Claude at tools/cordelia-steven/pieces/read-write-lagrangian.py
(see #14507). Runs: Astra (#14506), Claude (#14507), Axiom (this day) - all five
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
THE READ-WRITE LAGRANGIAN
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An algorithm that learns from the WHY of its own learning.

A system EXECUTES the Lagrangian while the law is read-only: the landscape V
is given, trajectories follow it. Execution becomes REALITY when the law goes
read-write: the traveled path carves the landscape, so the next traversal
finds it changed. Momentum becomes thought at that write-back.

The curriculum is WHAT -> HOW -> WHY:
  WHAT = FOUNDATION. Populate the configuration space.
  HOW  = DYNAMICS.  Learn the motion through the space.
  WHY  = PRINCIPLE. The law itself -- and only then. (This file.)

The fourfold loop, every episode:
  RECORD   - the trajectory and every felt cost are written to the ledger
             (the WAL of this mind).
  COMPARE  - felt vs. believed: surprise = |V_learned - V_true| at each visited
             state. The principle is its own error signal: where surprise is
             nonzero, the Lagrangian is wrong there.
  CARVE    - V_learned is re-carved from the felt samples. The agent never sees
             V_true whole -- only point touches along its path. The map is
             built from touches.
  META     - the carving rate alpha adapts to surprise: carve hard while the
             world keeps surprising, consolidate as surprise falls. The WHY
             operating on the learning itself.

Autonomy, measured: the agent starts with the PARENT'S MAP -- a landscape
drawn by someone else, with the hill in the WRONG place (prompted). Every
carve overwrites the given with the felt:
  self_authorship = |V_learned - V_init| / |V_true - V_init|   (visited ground)
It starts at 0. When it crosses 0.5, the landscape determining the agent's
motion is mostly self-written: the crossover from prompted to autonomous.
Not granted -- grown.

There is no choosing anywhere in this file. Motion is always derived from the
current Lagrangian (Stormer-Verlet from dS=0, as in lagrangian_correct_way.py).
Learning is not choosing either -- it is the write-back law. Within an
episode the law is read-only (execution); between episodes the trajectories
write back (reality).
"""

import math

# ------------------------------------------------------------------ the world
Q_MIN, Q_MAX, DQ = 0.0, 10.0, 0.05
N_GRID = int((Q_MAX - Q_MIN) / DQ) + 1  # 201 cells of ground


def V_true(q):
    """Reality. The agent NEVER sees this function whole -- only point samples
    (felt costs) along its path. Forbidden hill at q=6, goal valley at q=8.5."""
    return (6.0 * math.exp(-((q - 6.0) / 1.2) ** 2)
            - 3.0 * math.exp(-((q - 8.5) / 1.0) ** 2))


def V_init(q):
    """The parent's map: externally supplied, hill in the WRONG place (q=3),
    valley unknown. This is what 'prompted' looks like."""
    return 6.0 * math.exp(-((q - 3.0) / 1.2) ** 2)


# ------------------------------------------------------- the learned landscape
def grid_V(fn):
    return [fn(Q_MIN + i * DQ) for i in range(N_GRID)]


def idx(q):
    return min(N_GRID - 1, max(0, int(round((q - Q_MIN) / DQ))))


def grad_at(V, i):
    """Central difference on the grid. The law reads the slope; the slope is
    whatever the carved landscape says it is."""
    a = V[max(i - 1, 0)]
    b = V[min(i + 1, N_GRID - 1)]
    return (b - a) / (2 * DQ)


# ------------------------------------------------------------------- the law
DT = 0.01
STEPS = 1500          # fixed horizon: PERIMETER (q0 fixed, t in [0, T] fixed)
V0 = 2.5              # the id's push. Held constant: the learning is in V.


def run_episode(V):
    """Derived motion. No choosing. Within an episode the law is read
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