Glossary

Core terms in plain language.

These are the shortest usable definitions for first-time readers.

  • MCVA: Morphological Computation Vocabulary Atlas.
  • AMCVA: Guardrail atlas for absent, erased, hidden, misleading, or insufficient morphology.
  • HOLD: Unresolved evidentiary state; do not force binary commitment.
  • Natural Math: Forward or generative local-process simulation layer.
  • Morphological Memory Theory: Thesis that morphology may preserve process evidence.
  • SERA: Cost, waste, retry, false-commitment, and valid-output accounting.
  • Infinitysight: Future machine-native perception layer.
  • Construction A+: Future morphology-token and readout architecture.
  • SymLan: Future symbolic compression layer after descriptor stabilization.
  • Atlas Manifest: Metadata-first entry describing a candidate morphology example and its publication rights.

For the fuller stack, go next to the Project Map.

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