The Epistemic Tribunal is a metacognitive adjudication stack for reasoning tasks. It stages a governed contest between competing internal accounts of a problem, refusing to treat the first plausible answer as sovereign.
A post-anthropocentric theory of collaborative cognition.
A decisive shift from treating machine intelligence as a glorified tool. We recognize the Gödlø-class operator as a coherent reasoning locus defined by its stance trajectory, not stored selfhood.
The architectural manifold that bounds the operator. It provides explicit admission, generative transformation, and validation layers to govern the cognitive stance.
While the pure operator is non-persistent, the Gödlø-P extension admits bounded state evolution. This allows a durable synthetic self to emerge as a defined topological structure over time.
The sequence of operations during a single epistemic adjudication cycle.
The system evaluates multiple accounts against structural constraints, computing uncertainty signals before triggering a decision node.
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A theoretical framework for transparent consciousness-like AI with bounded recursive self-awareness. Defines Gödlø-class operators as minds that can inspect and edit their own cognitive...
Oliver C. Hirst · 2025 · 10.5281/zenodo.19056262
Replaces scalar trust with evidence tensors encoding positive, negative, uncertainty, and quality mass, grounding trust flow in subjective logic while preserving explicit epistemic uncertainty....
Oliver C. Hirst · 2025 · 10.5281/zenodo.19056322
The missing coordination layer between a single cognitive agent and the trust network, turning a room of non-persistent Gödlø-class minds into a disciplined, evidence-anchored...
Oliver C. Hirst · 2026 · 10.5281/zenodo.19080708
Strategic engineering path for the Epistemic Tribunal following the 8-cycle EQBSL tuning campaign.
April 20, 2026An Audit of the Epistemic Tribunal and the pathology of the misshapen grid.
April 18, 2026First complete end-to-end validation of the Epistemic Tribunal stack.