ACVAM-DA: An Open-Valence Metareflective Architecture for Artificial Autonomy and Consciousness Research
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 29, 2026 Douglas da Silva Ferreira Brilhante
This article introduces the Open-Valence Metareflective Cyclic Architecture with Autonomous Development (ACVAM-DA), a falsifiable conceptual framework for investigating artificial autonomy, metacognition, hierarchical self-modification, and theory-derived indicators of consciousness. The architecture refines a basic pleasure–displeasure regulatory loop into three distinct levels of valence:...