Scope

The Consciousness Substrate Model (CSM) defines a structural substrate for autonomous forms that require:

• internal coherence
• contextual awareness
• regime‑safe continuity
• non‑catastrophic adaptation

The scope of this model includes:

• autonomous agents
• distributed adaptive systems
• control architectures
• non‑anthropomorphic artificial forms

CSM operates at the level of substrate and structure, not behavior or experience.

It is intended to complement, not replace:

• control theory
• learning systems
• planning frameworks
• physical or computational substrates

The model is deliberately minimal and does not prescribe implementation details.