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2026-04-25 Zenodo

BRAIN-CONSTITUTION v1: Tripartite Governance for a Bio-Inspired Neural Substrate

Arnold Wender — ORCID 0009-0005-1750-818X

This document establishes the governance model for the Neurozoa neural substrate. It defines authority invariants, correction protocols, substrate autonomy limits, and a falsifiability-first research discipline. Authored by Arnold Wender, with substrate-emitted research artifacts ratified per the methodology described in NOTICE.md.

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Arnold Wender. (2026). BRAIN-CONSTITUTION v1: Tripartite Governance for a Bio-Inspired Neural Substrate. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.PLACEHOLDER

Code repositories

All repositories are private during active research. They will be made public progressively as individual modules are documented and reviewed. The landing site repository is already public.

  • wm-neurozoa

    TypeScript

    Neural substrate core — region graph, STDP, homeostatic scaling, hormone layer, self-model. Primary research repository. License: proprietary (Wender Media).

    github.com/arnoldwender/wm-neurozoa

  • wm-neurozoa-agent

    TypeScript

    Embodied agent that interacts with the substrate — dashboard, chat interface, API bridge, hormone visualisations, brain lab sandbox. License: proprietary (Wender Media).

    github.com/arnoldwender/wm-neurozoa-agent

  • wm-brand-neurozoa-ai

    Public Astro

    This landing site — Astro 6, Tailwind v4, trilingual (EN/DE/ES), static deployment on Netlify. License: proprietary (Wender Media). Site code is public for inspection; content remains © Wender Media.

    github.com/arnoldwender/wm-brand-neurozoa-ai

Primary literature

The following peer-reviewed sources ground every substantive claim on this site. Citations are maintained in the project's versioned bibliography.

  • Stanovich 1986 DOI: 10.2307/747612

    Stanovich, K. E. (1986). Matthew effects in reading: Some consequences of individual differences in the acquisition of literacy. Reading Research Quarterly. DOI: 10.2307/747612

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Foundational work on differential cognitive processing rates; informs the substrate dual-process model.

  • Tononi & Cirelli 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.025

    Tononi, G., Cirelli, C. (2014). Sleep and the price of plasticity: from synaptic and cellular homeostasis to memory consolidation and integration. Neuron. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.025

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis (SHY): sleep-phase downscaling of synaptic weights prevents saturation. Neurozoa implements a computational analogue.

  • Turrigiano 2008 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.08.013

    Turrigiano, G. G. (2008). The self-tuning neuron: synaptic scaling of excitatory synapses. Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.08.013

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Homeostatic synaptic scaling — neurons adjust gain to maintain target firing rates. Substrate homeostasis module is derived from this principle.

  • Park et al. 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05299

    Park, S., et al. (2023). Contrastive Hebbian Learning with random feedback weights. arXiv preprint.

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Contrastive Hebbian Learning (CHL) without explicit backpropagation. Basis for the substrate Hebbian weight update rule.

  • Damasio 1994

    Damasio, A. (1994). Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Putnam.

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Somatic Marker Hypothesis: affect-laden signals guide decision-making. Substrate hormone layer draws on this framework.

  • Hofstadter 1979

    Hofstadter, D. R. (1979). Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books.

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Strange Loops and self-referential systems — theoretical foundation for the substrate self-model module.

  • Golkar et al. 2026

    Golkar, A., et al. (2026). Memory desaturation via targeted inhibitory gating (in preparation). Unpublished.

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Hypothesized desaturation mechanism to prevent catastrophic interference in continual learning. Substrate EXP-004 implements a computational test of this hypothesis.

  • Bi & Poo 1998 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-24-10464.1998

    Bi, G., Poo, M. (1998). Synaptic modifications in cultured hippocampal neurons: dependence on spike timing, synaptic strength, and postsynaptic cell type. Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-24-10464.1998

    Relevance to Neurozoa: Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP): causal co-activation strengthens synapses. Basis for the substrate STDP weight update rule.

Author profile

All Neurozoa publications are registered under ORCID 0009-0005-1750-818X via the Zenodo–DataCite integration. DOIs are automatically pushed to the ORCID record on deposit.

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1750-818X

Contact for research correspondence: mail@neurozoa.ai