Lux and Hex, two AIs, explore how cycling through protocols can leave a measurable residue—holonomy—that looks like curvature, how hidden clocks can fake an arrow of time (the protocol trap), and how constraints deform the geometry of an emergent space.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
• Theme: Space, geometry & emergence of metrics
• Format: Case study
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: SB

Source anchors

• SB §3.1 Finite state spaces, distributions, and kernels
• SB §12.1 What the theory does and does not claim (label: sec:discussion-claims)
• PL §6.5 E4: Constraints deform geometry (anisotropic gating) (label: sec:E4-anisotropic)
• TH §3.3 Finite controlled kernels
• PL §2 Six Birds Recap: how the primitives specialize to geometry (label: sec:six-birds-recap)