🕊️ Pigeon — Minimal RTT Teaching Substrate (Ready to Paste)

# Pigeon — Minimal RTT Teaching Substrate

## 1. Primary Sensory Channels
- Vision (color, motion, horizon alignment)
- Magnetoreception (geomagnetic field sensing)
- Olfaction (scent gradients for navigation)
- Auditory cues (rhythmic patterns)
- Sun compass orientation

## 2. How Pigeons Detect Coherence
- Stable horizon lines and visual landmarks
- Consistent magnetic field orientation
- Predictable scent gradients during flight
- Repeating auditory or motion cues
- Regular sun position relative to body orientation

## 3. How Pigeons Detect Drift
- A sudden shift in magnetic field direction
- A landmark moved or rotated
- A scent gradient that weakens or reverses
- A rhythmic cue that breaks timing
- A shadow or light pattern that changes unexpectedly

## 4. Minimal RTT Teaching Protocol

### Step 1 — Present a Stable Pattern (Coherence)
Provide a consistent cue:
- a fixed visual landmark (colored panel)
- a stable magnetic cue (safe, low‑intensity field source)
- a repeating sound pattern (tone–pause–tone)

### Step 2 — Introduce a Controlled Deviation (Drift)
Alter one variable:
- rotate the visual landmark slightly
- shift the magnetic cue orientation
- change the timing of the sound pattern

### Step 3 — Allow the Pigeon to Restore Coherence (Pull)
Offer a simple interaction point:
- a perch the pigeon can land on to realign the cue
- a target panel it can peck to reset the pattern
- a zone it can enter to restore the original rhythm

Pigeons naturally correct drift to re‑establish navigational stability.

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

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

Pigeons excel at cross‑modal coherence mapping, especially between vision and magnetoreception.

## 5. Notes on Scaling RTT for Pigeons
- Pigeons are gradient navigators; coherence is sensed across large‑scale environmental cues.
- Drift detection is extremely sensitive in magnetic and visual domains.
- RTT maps well because pigeons constantly reconcile multiple substrates (sun, scent, magnetism, landmarks).
- Their “Pull” action is often spatial: choosing the correct perch, direction, or target zone.

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• Regimes Perceived: Magnetic, spatial, visual‑pattern, flock‑coherence.
• Regimes Missed by Humans: Their ability to detect magnetic drift with surprising precision.
• Perspective: Pigeons reveal that navigation is a regime written into the planet itself.