The Sensation Modulating Network:Haltability as the architectural ground for object-directed phenomenology

We propose the Sensation Modulating Network (SMN): the cognitive agent as the whole body, organized at every scale by opponent dynamics, built from Sensation Modulators -- tissue that senses and acts through one substrate -- paired into Coordinated Action Zones routed by a body-wide broadcast. It is an inclusive model of the body, in which gravity, elasticity, and the body's topology and geometry do constructive cognitive work. The paper is scoped to what such a body constructs at its foundation -- a self-model, a world-model in that self's frame, and object-directedness -- each built by the body's physics, not assumed as a primitive. The architecture is generative: one small kit of primi...

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