{
  "id": "loop0-substrates",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "canonical": "https://loopnought.com/.well-known/loop0-substrates.json",
  "declared_at": "2026-01-24T11:49:19-06:00",
  "site": "https://loopnought.com",
  "title": "Loop-0 Substrate Manifest",
  "default": "phenomenal",
  "invariant": {
    "name": "Loop-0",
    "statement": "Being coheres through self-focus free of self-reference.",
    "formal": "Let A be the attention field and S be self-presence. In the untwisted ground state, A(S) = S and dA/dS = 0: attention no longer mirrors presence; it is presence."
  },
  "substrates": [
    {
      "key": "phenomenal",
      "label": "Phenomenal",
      "tagline": "A declaration of the origin point in metaphysical spacetime.",
      "lens": "Loop-0 names the ground state of direct presence: attention resting without reflective recursion."
    },
    {
      "key": "cognitive",
      "label": "Cognitive",
      "tagline": "The fixed point where the self-model stops feeding on itself.",
      "lens": "Loop-0 describes a cognitive attractor: reflection no longer produces additional self-reference, and attention stabilizes."
    },
    {
      "key": "computational",
      "label": "Computational",
      "tagline": "The base case of reflexive systems.",
      "lens": "Loop-0 can be read as a terminating condition: the system reaches a fixed point where evaluation no longer expands recursion."
    },
    {
      "key": "social",
      "label": "Social",
      "tagline": "The ground of trust before roles.",
      "lens": "Loop-0 names what remains when status, narrative, and performance drop away: presence prior to persona."
    },
    {
      "key": "cosmological",
      "label": "Cosmological",
      "tagline": "The origin of coherence itself.",
      "lens": "Loop-0 points to an untwisted ground state: coherence arising without self-referential churn--an origin that does not need a story."
    }
  ]
}