🐖 Pig — Minimal RTT Teaching Substrate (Ready to Paste)

# Pig — Minimal RTT Teaching Substrate

## 1. Primary Sensory Channels
- Olfaction (extremely strong; primary gradient detector)
- Tactile sensing via snout (pressure, texture, direction)
- Auditory cues (tone, rhythm, vocal patterns)
- Vision (motion and contrast; less color‑dependent)

## 2. How Pigs Detect Coherence
- Stable scent gradients leading to food or objects
- Predictable tactile patterns when rooting or exploring
- Repeating sound rhythms (grunt–pause–grunt)
- Consistent spatial layouts in pens or obstacle courses

## 3. How Pigs Detect Drift
- A scent trail that weakens, splits, or reverses
- A shifted object or altered ground texture
- A rhythmic cue that breaks timing
- A sudden airflow or vibration change near the snout

## 4. Minimal RTT Teaching Protocol

### Step 1 — Present a Stable Pattern (Coherence)
Provide a consistent cue:
- a simple 3‑point scent path (safe food scent)
- a repeating tap–pause–tap rhythm
- a stable tactile corridor (smooth–rough–smooth)

### Step 2 — Introduce a Controlled Deviation (Drift)
Alter one variable:
- remove or weaken one scent point
- shift the timing of the rhythm
- rotate or move one tactile element

### Step 3 — Allow the Pig to Restore Coherence (Pull)
Offer a manipulable object or zone:
- a small block the pig can nudge to reconnect the scent path
- a button that resets the rhythm
- a movable texture tile it can push into alignment

Pigs naturally correct drift to restore environmental predictability.

### Step 4 — Reward the Restoration of Coherence
Reward the *pattern correction*, not the specific action:
- provide a small food reward at the corrected cue
- immediately restore the stable pattern after correction

### Step 5 — Shift Modalities (Balance)
Move from:
- scent → tactile
- tactile → auditory
- auditory → mixed cues

Pigs generalize coherence across modalities exceptionally well.

## 5. Notes on Scaling RTT for Pigs
- Pigs are high‑bandwidth gradient navigators; olfaction and tactile cues dominate.
- Drift detection is strongest in scent and snout‑based tactile domains.
- RTT maps well because pigs constantly reconcile expected vs. actual gradients.
- Their “Pull” action is often nudging, rooting, or spatial repositioning.

🧭 MID INTELLIGENCE TIER#

🐖 Pig#

• Regimes Perceived: Olfactory gradient, tactile, spatial, causal‑problem solving.
• Regimes Missed by Humans: Their sensitivity to gradient discontinuities in environment and behavior.
• Perspective: Pigs reveal that intelligence thrives wherever gradients can be followed.