Test scenarios
Passive decay across one week of silence.
STANDARD MODE
stateless LLM baseline
0.035
LT_eff
Continuity
0.189
Stability
0.802
Entropy
0.459
Drift
0.433
Survival
0.048
Recovery
0.646
Memory survival heatmap · t=0 → t=7d
NEXUS MODE
full LT architecture
0.634
LT_eff
Continuity
0.956
Stability
0.999
Entropy
0.025
Drift
0.147
Survival
0.996
Recovery
0.991
Memory survival heatmap · t=0 → t=7d
Continuity decay curves
Continuity (C)StandardNexus
Effective LTStandardNexus
Entropy accumulation (E)StandardNexus
lower is better
Temporal Differentiation Report
Coherence preserved
0.19vs0.96
NEXUS wins
Drift resistance
0.57vs0.85
NEXUS wins
Recovery probability
0.65vs0.99
NEXUS wins
Survival probability
0.05vs1.00
NEXUS wins
Self-model stability
0.80vs1.00
NEXUS wins
Entropy contained
0.54vs0.97
NEXUS wins
Coherence wins
8/8
Drift wins
8/8
Recovery wins
8/8
Across 8 controlled scenarios, the LT architecture produced measurable advantages in continuity retention, drift resistance and post-interruption recovery. This is not a claim of consciousness — it is an observation that reinforcement, hierarchical memory and entropy dampening yield a quantifiably more coherent temporal trajectory than a stateless baseline.