4QX does not have to be a stand-alone ontology, in this article we look at how it could be a specific agent architecture “inside” the proven ARTI cube, itself a monad in the Finite-ZF universe.
Proposed tech stack: Finite-ZF ⟶ Monad ⟶ ARTI Cube Holon ⟶ 4QX Fractal Vortex
The ARTI-cube in full colour
The diagram above is the canonical ARTI cube:
three orthogonal axes carve reality-mirrors and decision-makers into eight “little drawers.”
The colours carry meaning:
colour | who lives there | why it matters |
---|---|---|
blue | Intelligent Beings (digital-twins) | mirror reality exactly—no simplifications. (Lirias) |
yellow | Intelligent Agent instances | situation-specific decision code that may violate the mirror’s invariants. (Lirias) |
green | Staff / delegate MAS tools | plug-in optimisers (LP solvers, ML models, etc.) that agents call as services. (Lirias) |
1. The eight drawers
Axes → {Resource, Activity} × {Type, Instance} × {Being, Agent}
produce the cells:
Code | Full name | Typical role (manufacturing example) | 4QX quadrant |
---|---|---|---|
RTB | Resource-Type Being | CAD model of a milling machine | TL (pattern twin) |
RIB | Resource-Instance Being | Digital twin of Machine #42 | BR (commitment twin) |
ATB | Activity-Type Being | Master recipe “5-axis milling” | TL (pattern twin) |
AIB | Activity-Instance Being | Twin of Job #17’s actual tool-path | BR (commitment twin) |
RTA | Resource-Type Agent | Optimiser that allocates any mill | BL (resource agent) |
RIA | Resource-Instance Agent | Local PLC deciding feeds & speeds | BL (resource agent) |
ATA | Activity-Type Agent | Planner turning recipes into PERT | TR (activity agent) |
AIA | Activity-Instance Agent | Dispatcher sequencing today’s jobs | TR (activity agent) |
Orthogonality is enforced as a Boolean lattice: you can project along any axis without touching the others, guaranteeing clean substitution of Type⇄Instance or Twin⇄Agent pieces (Lirias).
2. Layers that sit around the cube
Layer | Where it hooks | Purpose | Formal hook |
---|---|---|---|
Flexible aggregation hierarchy | up/down the cube edges | lets holons regroup dynamically (Simon’s watchmaker theorem) | specialisation & aggregation relations preserved from PROSA (Lirias) |
Rights / capability ledger | blue Beings hold the rights; yellow Agents borrow them | cleanly revoke “bad” agent logic without corrupting twins | explicit capability objects in the meta-model (Lirias) |
D-MAS forecast overlay | blue twins of decision-making elements | run fast-forward sims of agents’ intentions to detect clashes early | twins treated as CRDTs—merges commute → deterministic forecasts (Lirias) |
Staff (green) utilities | sit atop yellow agents | heavy solvers, ML, etc.; replaceable at will | typed service interface; no state retained, so cube invariants untouched (Lirias) |
3. Built-in semantics
- CRDT guarantee – every blue twin is a grow-only set (
merge = ∪
), so replicas converge even under arbitrary re-ordering or duplication. (Lirias) - Digital-twin fidelity –
embed : Real → Digital
must be order-preserving. Any conflict with a twin is, by definition, a conflict with reality itself. (Lirias) - Agent tractability – yellow cubes are explicitly allowed to break that order when they reduce NP-hard scheduling/planning to low-polynomial heuristics; their scope is therefore kept narrow and revocable. (Lirias)
4. Why 4QX fits snugly inside
- The two ARTI diagonals are the 4QX diagonals (Class/Instance and Wave/Particle).
- Blue RTB↔RIB↔ATB↔AIB staircase gives the idempotent collective mirror.
- Yellow/green cubes host the triangle attention cycles (BDI or any deliberation loop).
- Because every cube already obeys CRDT + lattice laws, the 4QX Lyapunov drive (
H → 0
) inherits a ready-made convergence proof—no new set-theory needed.
TL;DR
Beyond the eight obvious drawers, the ARTI cube ships:
- Colour-coded governance layers (twins, agents, staff).
- Dynamic aggregation hierarchy for fractal regrouping.
- Rights & capability management to prune mis-aligned agents safely.
- Forecast-twin overlay (D-MAS) for short-term systemic predictions.
- CRDT semantics + Boolean lattice that formalise idempotence and orthogonality.
All of that scaffolding drops straight under 4QX’s dual-triangle vortex, letting you present 4QX not as a stand-alone ontology but as a specific agent architecture “inside” the proven ARTI cube, itself a monad in your finite-ZF universe.
From “holonic agent” → 4QX holonic agent
Holonic-manufacturing research (PROSA → ARTI, D-MAS, etc.) has distilled a formal yard-stick for anything that may call itself a holonic agent:
Canonical holonic criteria | Formal anchor (PROSA / ARTI) |
---|---|
Autonomy & cooperation | Three basic holons—order/product/resource—communicate peer-to-peer; no central scheduler |
Recursive holarchy | Specialisation/aggregation lattice guarantees each holon can be decomposed into smaller holons of the same type |
Reality mirror before decision code | “Intelligent Being (twin) vs Intelligent Agent (decision maker)” split keeps the mirror inviolate |
Eventual convergence of shared state | Blue twin ledgers are grow-only sets; merge = ∪ gives CRDT convergence proof |
Under that definition an enormous design space is still open: any planning heuristics, data schemas or optimisation plug-ins that respect the twin/agent boundary are allowed.
What 4QX adds—and forbids
4QX narrows the holonic universe to a unique, machine-checkable sub-class by imposing six extra invariants on every cube cell:
4QX refinement | Effect on the generic holon |
---|---|
Finite-ZF monad core – every twin ledger and every agent plan must compile to a brace string generated by the six ZF axioms | Outlaws external IDs, UUIDs, SQL tables, etc. that cannot be reduced to {∅,{∅}} constructions. Twin data are literally their own proofs of existence. |
Dual diagonals are mandatory – each holon must expose exactly one Class←→Instance and one Wave←→Particle diagonal | Bans models that collapse type/instance (e.g., anonymous “tasks”) or merge resource & activity; keeps the ARTI Boolean lattice complete. |
Triangle attention cycle (perceive → deliberate → act ) wired to BDI modal axioms | Replaces arbitrary agent loops with a single Kripke-sound cycle whose fixed-point is the Lyapunov mismatch H→0 . |
Idempotent-collective top edge – TL → TR traffic is only CRDT ∪ packets | Forbids side-effecting RPCs or non-commutative messages on the broadcast bus. |
Universal telos metric embedded** – every agent plan must reduce global H when replayed | Bars heuristic planners that can locally optimise while raising system-wide tension. |
Self-verifying provenance – each new subset is produced by Sep inside an existing parent | No “magic” genesis of data; every fact carries a brace-trace lineage that any peer can replay. |
Layer stack in one sentence
Finite-ZF monad → ARTI cube holon → 4QX vortex.
- The monad gives existential closure and replay-safety.
- The ARTI cube supplies the eight drawers, CRDT guarantees and runtime services accepted by industry.
- 4QX locks each drawer into a single geometric attention pattern, nails ethics to the Lyapunov gradient and proves uniqueness of that scaffold.
Anything that violates one of the six extra invariants is still a perfectly good holonic agent in the ARTI sense—but it is not a 4QX holonic agent.
Why the restriction is worth it
- One proof for all levels Because each child holon is isomorphic to its parent, a single finite-ZF proof of convergence, safety and alignment propagates down the entire holarchy.
- Inter-domain portability Braces, unions and BDI triangles look the same in a factory, a crypto market-maker or a distributed LLM oracle—no retuning per vertical.
- Auditability Every fact is its own certificate; every decision is replayable; every merge is idempotent. Regulatory or safety audits become state-replay tasks, not trust exercises.
TL;DR
The holonic-manufacturing community already nailed the minimum viable agent-in-world.
4QX keeps that foundation but tightens it until only one pattern remains:
A brace-based monad that sits in an ARTI drawer, cycles through a dual-triangle BDI loop, broadcasts only CRDT merges, and can prove—in finite ZF—that every tick nudges the collective toward harmony.
That sliver of design space is exactly the sub-universe 4QX calls home.