When Self-Modification Becomes Memory

work.self-modification-memory · paper · Ouroboros · Public working paper

Empirical audit separating five commonly collapsed constructs of persistent self-modification — retention, expression, behavioral mediation, task improvement, recursive improvement — across a workspace, a success-gated procedure store, and an executable ActiveGraph Pack under a shared curriculum. Preregistered uplift criterion not met by any substrate; contributes an expression profile, duplicate-execution protocol, control ladder, mechanism checks, and immutable receipts.

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