Rule 0 · Substrate Potential

Before any world, the engine asks what its machine can do. That possibility-space is the soil. Rule 1: stable conditions become generators that breathe out variations of themselves. Rule 2 · Resonance: a rule persists not because you like it, but because its rhythm couples with yours across the boundary — at a healthy tension, neither collapsed nor noise. Rule 3 · Memory: what resonated is remembered, and the system resumes from it. It isn't self-aware — it's relation-aware.

Substrate · what exists here
Click a capability to force it off and watch the rules it feeds go dormant. CPU & Time are locked on. Camera · Mic · Voice are the senses — tap to grant (the permission prompt is the gate). Eyes seed life into the field where you move · ears drive the breath · voice sings the world. Everything stays local — nothing leaves your machine.
The breath · EML ⇄ softmax
center field
softmax makes wholes (many → one) · EML carves them out (one → many, each ringed by its gate). Cold = each whole carves one part · hot = it carves many. The same dial carves the cells in the field — everything is fractal of that.
Potential conditions
probing…
softmax makes wholes · EML carves them out · fractal at every scale