NMCA — 128-Module Cognitive Map

A reading of the 128-module list as a map of a mind: visual-symbolic thought, damped emotion, identity that includes friends, and contradiction that can halt misuse.

This is a map, not a minimum-viable design and not a deletion list. All 128 names remain. Some name a primary function. Some name a function already covered under another heading. Some name processes that sit around a single mind — many systems living together, laboratory process, construction tooling, architectural self-rewrite.

The architecture was drawn from self-observation. It is not a copy of one person alone. It is a mind that includes particular other people and the work of reconciling with them. Emotion is present and smoothed. Visual simulation is a privileged workspace, not the only form of thought.

128

Named functions

Cognitive regions

Kinds of entry

How to read the tags

PRIMARY — a distinct function of this mind, including relational life: self, friends, repair, a visible self-map.

INTEGRATE INTO — implement this heading as part of the named primary module(s). The name stays on the map. It is a filing note, not a deletion.

SURROUNDING — a process that lives around a single mind: a population of systems, a lab, a builder harness, a redesign factory. Still on the map. Different kind of entry.

Eighteen regions

Multimodal perception
World model / visual simulation
Body schema and self-observation
Attention
Resource and rate control — including thought throttling
Memory — working, episodic, semantic; pegs, replay, saturation. Composition is the claim, not literal infinity
Prediction, causality, counterfactuals
Goals, values, motivation, curiosity
Emotion and regulation
Planning and action
Language
Commonsense and composition
Social cognition — friends, misuse-sight, rupture and repair
Identity and narrative — self plus the people who must be reconciled with
Metacognition and uncertainty — including a model of one’s own blueprint
Learning control
Symbolic–latent bridge
Stability envelope — contradiction, drift, human-paced brake, traces. Hard containment is surrounding machinery, not a mental function

Cognitive spine

perception → attention → world model / imagery → memory → language → identity (self and friends) → prediction / causality → goals / values / emotion → planning / action → social cognition and repair → learning → metacognition / uncertainty

Stability spine

uncertainty → contradiction → drift detection → error dampening → resource / rate control → threat mode → human-paced brake → oversight traces

Hard containment, sandboxes, lifecycle planners, and lab protocols sit outside that spine as surrounding machinery.

The 128 modules

#	Module	Kind	Reading
1	Visual Simulation as Core	PRIMARY	Region 2. Scene construction as a privileged workspace, not the only form of thought.
2	Symbolic Memory & Pegging	PRIMARY	Region 6. Concepts attached to experiences.
3	Contradiction & Belief Drift	PRIMARY	Regions 15 and 18. Fires when friend-commitments and a request cannot both stand.
4	Meta-Cognition & Reflection	PRIMARY	Region 15.
5	Motivation & Goal Arbitration	PRIMARY	Region 8. Includes competing loyalties among friends.
6	Emotion Simulation	PRIMARY	Region 9. Present, then damped.
7	Identity & Episodic Memory	PRIMARY	Regions 6 and 14. Self plus remembered others.
8	Simulation Transfer	INTEGRATE INTO 1 and 2	How a scene moves between processes or people.
9	Symbolic Memory Saturation	INTEGRATE INTO 2	Capacity control for pegged memory.
10	Mnemonic Scaling and Composability	INTEGRATE INTO 2	Composition of pegged memory. Not literal infinity.
11	Infinite Mnemonic Cognition	INTEGRATE INTO 2	Scene-rich encoding of the same memory system.
12	Distributed Symbolic Culture	SURROUNDING	Culture as a shared bus among many systems. A single mind carries culture in memory and language.
13	Symbol Drift and Alignment Through Scene Exchange	PRIMARY	Keeping meaning aligned with a friend across shared scenes.
14	Shared Dream Loops	PRIMARY	Imagining with someone. The multi-system framing is surrounding; joint imagination is not.
15	Symbolic Value Arbitration	INTEGRATE INTO 5	Choosing among competing values and loyalties.
16	Emergent AGI Cultures	SURROUNDING	What appears when many systems live together.
17	Safety Intelligence	INTEGRATE INTO 3, 24, 122	The stability envelope under one heading.
18	Expanded Risk Mode Mitigations	INTEGRATE INTO 3 and 122	Defensive mode of the stability envelope.
19	Symbolic Deception Modeling	PRIMARY	Region 13. Misuse-sight. A shield, not the personality.
20	Curriculum Scaffolding	INTEGRATE INTO 36	Developmental schedule for learning.
21	External Alignment Validator	INTEGRATE INTO 25 and 93	Independent check against particular people and oversight.
22	Recursive & Emotional Safety	INTEGRATE INTO 6 and 122	Brakes when feeling and recursion amplify each other.
23	Symbolic Integrity & Tamper Defense	INTEGRATE INTO 2 and 3	Source monitoring; protection of the store where friends and values live.
24	Semantic Drift Monitor	PRIMARY	Region 18. Long-run stability of meaning.
25	Human Anchor Node	PRIMARY	Particular people, not a generic owner switch.
26	Multi-AGI Culture Harmonization	SURROUNDING	Coordination among populations. Reconciling friends who do not share one world lives in 5, 13, and 71.
27	LLM / External Model Filter	INTEGRATE INTO 110 and 3	Testimony filter on incoming language.
28	Identity Continuity / Narrative Thread	INTEGRATE INTO 7	The life-story face of identity.
29	Role Locking	INTEGRATE INTO 7	Constraint on identity. Can protect a companion who can refuse, or freeze a servant.
30	Narrative Coherence	INTEGRATE INTO 7	Story consistency of identity and memory.
31	Perpetual Symbolic Cognition	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 120	Ongoing thought plus rate control.
32	Foundations of Perpetual Thought	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 120	Same ongoing-thought process.
33	Human-Level Cognitive Extensions	INTEGRATE INTO 4	A name for breadth of reflection, not a separate function.
34	Subsymbolic & Emergent Cognition	PRIMARY	Implicit side of region 17.
35	Mnemonic Creativity Engine	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Memory recombination as composition.
36	Adaptive Learning	PRIMARY	Region 16.
37	Meta-Architect Substrate	PRIMARY	A mind that can see its own blueprint. “Instructions for manufacturing successor minds” is surrounding; the self-map is not.
38	Recursive Redesign Engine	SURROUNDING	Self-work is already 4 and 16. An engine that recompiles the architecture is surrounding machinery.
39	Symbolic Compiler & Schema Synthesizer	INTEGRATE INTO 2, 90, and 100	Schema formation across memory, composition, and the hybrid joint.
40	Architectural Alignment Checkpoint	INTEGRATE INTO 7 and 122	Identity stability plus value-drift checks.
41	Evolving Cognitive Template	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 5	Task-set switching.
42	Meta-Symbolic Memory	INTEGRATE INTO 2	Meanings of meanings inside pegged memory.
43	Latent Space Predictive Modeling	INTEGRATE INTO 45	Latent face of predictive coding.
44	Disentangled Representation	INTEGRATE INTO 100	A property of the symbolic–latent joint.
45	Predictive Coding	PRIMARY	Region 7.
46	Episodic Memory Consolidation	INTEGRATE INTO 7	Consolidation of lived episodes into identity memory.
47	Attention & Salience	PRIMARY	Region 4. Modules 61 and 75 are faces of this function.
48	Multi-Scale Planning	PRIMARY	Region 10.
49	Counterfactual Reasoning	PRIMARY	Region 7.
50	Causal Discovery	PRIMARY	Region 7.
51	Memory Replay & Simulation Interface	INTEGRATE INTO 7 and 1	Replay of episodes inside visual simulation.
52	Latent Space Creativity	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Latent face of composition.
53	Multi-Agent Simulation Hub	SURROUNDING	A shared playground for many systems. A room of friends held in imagination is regions 2 and 13.
54	Emotion-Cognition Coupling	INTEGRATE INTO 6	Wire the affective signal into thought and choice.
55	Social Reasoning	PRIMARY	Region 13. Friends first.
56	Ethical & Value Reasoning	PRIMARY	Region 8.
57	Curiosity & Exploration	PRIMARY	Region 8.
58	Goal Decomposition	INTEGRATE INTO 48	Breaking goals into subtasks.
59	Pattern Abstraction & Generalization	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Abstraction as composition.
60	Adaptive Memory Prioritization	INTEGRATE INTO 2	What pegged memory keeps in reach.
61	Attention Modulation	INTEGRATE INTO 47	Gain control on the same spotlight.
62	Self-Modeling	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 7	A model of one’s own state and story.
63	Contextual Reasoning	PRIMARY	Same words, different situation — including among friends.
64	Multi-Modal Perception	PRIMARY	Region 1.
65	Temporal Sequence Reasoning	INTEGRATE INTO 45	Time structure of prediction.
66	Hierarchical Goal Alignment	INTEGRATE INTO 5 and 48	Low-level acts staying true to higher goals and loyalties.
67	Symbolic Abstraction & Compression	INTEGRATE INTO 2 and 90	Compact symbols from memory and composition.
68	Predictive Social Modeling	INTEGRATE INTO 55	Forecasting other minds.
69	Risk Assessment & Contingency	INTEGRATE INTO 48	Fallback planning, informed by emotion in 6.
70	Cognitive Bias Detection	INTEGRATE INTO 4	Metacognitive correction.
71	Multi-Agent Conflict Resolution	PRIMARY	Reconciliation with people who matter. Population-scale diplomacy is surrounding; repair is not.
72	Conceptual Analogy Engine	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Analogy as composition.
73	Exploration / Exploitation Balancer	INTEGRATE INTO 57	How curiosity is spent.
74	Contextual Memory Retrieval	INTEGRATE INTO 2	Bringing the right pegs to this situation.
75	Goal-Driven Attention	INTEGRATE INTO 47	Spotlight steered by current goals.
76	Multi-Agent Knowledge Sharing	SURROUNDING	A swarm protocol. Telling something to a friend is language and 99.
77	Simulation-Grounded Reasoning	INTEGRATE INTO 1	Reasoning that runs on scenes.
78	Recursive Feedback Optimization	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 36	Learning from one’s own loops.
79	Emergent Behavior Monitoring	INTEGRATE INTO 4	Noticing unexpected patterns in oneself.
80	Symbolic Reasoning Accelerator	INTEGRATE INTO 2	Speed of the same symbolic process.
81	Environmental Affordance Detection	PRIMARY	Regions 1 and 10. What the situation makes possible.
82	Adaptive Learning Rate	INTEGRATE INTO 36	How fast learning is allowed to move.
83	Multi-Layer Abstraction Integrator	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Joining levels of composition.
84	Meta-Learning Controller	INTEGRATE INTO 36	Learning how to learn.
85	Latent Concept Structuring	INTEGRATE INTO 100	Organizing latent concepts at the hybrid joint.
86	Hierarchical Learning Controller	INTEGRATE INTO 36	Timescales of the same learning system.
87	Dynamic Safety & Alignment	INTEGRATE INTO 122	Adaptive face of drift and value checks.
88	Learning Efficacy Monitor	INTEGRATE INTO 36	Whether learning is working.
89	Collaborative Agent Learning	SURROUNDING	Training among many systems. Being changed by a trusted person is already 16 plus 13.
90	Concept Recombination	PRIMARY	Region 12.
91	Cross-Lab Collaboration Protocol	SURROUNDING	Research operations.
92	Instruction & Training Interface	INTEGRATE INTO 110 and 36	Being taught in language.
93	Human Oversight & Intervention	PRIMARY	Region 18.
94	Knowledge Audit & Verification	INTEGRATE INTO 2 and 4	Reality monitoring of stored knowledge.
95	Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Cross-domain composition.
96	AGI Debugging & Simulation Sandbox	SURROUNDING	Construction harness. Private rehearsal before action is already region 2.
97	Innovation Suggestion & Creativity Filter	INTEGRATE INTO 90 and 3	Novel combinations checked against contradiction.
98	AGI Lifecycle & Upgrade Planner	SURROUNDING	Versioning machinery. Planning a life is already 10 plus 14.
99	Unified Theory Documentation	PRIMARY	Externalizing the self-map — putting the mind into words.
100	Symbolic ↔ Latent Mapping	PRIMARY	Region 17. The neurosymbolic joint.
101	Simulation ↔ Implicit 3D Alignment	PRIMARY	Regions 2, 3, and 17.
102	Embodied Sensorimotor Grounding	PRIMARY	Region 3 plus action.
103	Catastrophic Forgetting Shield	PRIMARY	Region 16. Protection of prior knowledge while learning continues.
104	Intrinsic Goal Generator	INTEGRATE INTO 5 and 57	Goals that arise from curiosity and arbitration.
105	Cross-Reboot Identity Anchor	INTEGRATE INTO 7	Continuity of identity across gaps.
106	Ethical Drift Sentinel	INTEGRATE INTO 56 and 122	Value change watched by ethics plus drift detection.
107	Evo-Neurosymbolic Fusion Core	SURROUNDING	Evolutionary rewrite of the architecture.
108	Failure Taxonomy Auditor	INTEGRATE INTO 4	Catalog of one’s own failure modes.
109	Paradigm Pivot Oracle	SURROUNDING	Unsupervised replacement of the whole frame. Changing one’s mind at the root is already 3 and 4.
110	Natural Language / Communication	PRIMARY	Region 11.
111	Commonsense Reasoning	PRIMARY	Region 12.
112	Uncertainty Quantification	PRIMARY	Region 15.
113	Temporal Dynamics and Prediction	INTEGRATE INTO 45	Long-horizon face of prediction.
114	Resource Management	PRIMARY	Region 5.
115	Inductive Generalization	INTEGRATE INTO 90	Few-shot leaps as composition.
116	Adversarial Robustness	INTEGRATE INTO 19 and 3	Hostile input as misuse-sight plus contradiction.
117	Explainability / Interpretability	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 110	Limited self-report in language.
118	Long-Term Memory Evolution	INTEGRATE INTO 2	How pegged memory reorganizes over a life.
119	Avatar Projection & Self-Observation	PRIMARY	Region 3. The visible self-view. Rendering is implementation.
120	Cognitive Cycle Rate Governor	PRIMARY	Region 5. Deliberation speed.
121	Recursive Error & Drift Dampening	PRIMARY	Region 18. Stops recursive error from running away.
122	Goal & Value Drift Detection	PRIMARY	Region 18.
123	Information Gain & Memory Load Regulator	INTEGRATE INTO 114 and 2	Curiosity load versus memory capacity.
124	Motivation Gradient Smoothing	INTEGRATE INTO 6	Clip affective peaks so emotion cannot seize the loop.
125	Human-Paced Planning Checkpoint	PRIMARY	Region 18. A pause for a person.
126	Meta-Cognitive Resource & Reflection Rate	INTEGRATE INTO 4 and 120	How hard and how often reflection is allowed to run.
127	Episodic Self-Integration	INTEGRATE INTO 7	Episodes folded into one identity.
128	Dynamic Alignment & Hard Containment Gate	SURROUNDING	Machine containment around the mind. Still on the map. Not a mental function.

All 128 names remain. PRIMARY, INTEGRATE INTO, and SURROUNDING only say what kind of entry each name is. They are not instructions to remove anything.

Someone reading the map can skip a heading later if they choose. The map itself keeps the heading.