Appendix: Symbol Reference

$\Val$

Valence: gradient alignment on viability manifold

$\Ar$

Arousal: rate of belief/state update

$\intinfo$

Integration: irreducibility under partition

$\reff$

Effective rank: distribution of active degrees of freedom

$\cfweight$

Counterfactual weight: resources on non-actual trajectories

$\selfsal$

Self-model salience: degree of self-focus

$\viable$

Viability manifold: region of sustainable states

$\mathcal{W}$

World model: predictive model of environment

$\mathcal{S}$

Self-model: component of world model representing self

$G$

Superorganism: social-scale agentic pattern

$\viable_G$

Superorganism's viability manifold

TAI

Transformative AI: AI causing transition comparable to Industrial Revolution

AGI

Artificial General Intelligence: human-level cognitive capability across domains