World Model: Toward a Coherence-driven Division of LLM Labor - Evidence from bounded disconfirmation tests
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World Model: Toward a Coherence-Driven Division of LLM Labor
Evidence for Protocol from bounded disconfirmation tests
ProblemMost current world-model efforts still assume that better internal representation, larger scale, or tighter orchestration of components will be enough. In practice, this remains close to a Cartesian-mechanical picture: a system is expected to succeed by holding and controlling a representation of the world rather than by remaining coherent within unfolding ambiguity, drift, contradiction, and changing relations. The prototype work reported here suggests a different path: world-model-like behavior may require a coherence-driven division of LLM labor, in which distinct LLM agents map, compare, revise, and interpret unfolding structure without collapsing into one monolithic control layer. Minimal architecture The tested minimal pattern used three role-separated agents. In this prototype, TU denotes an LLM operating in a Temporal Unit role:
The agents share structured state across cycles, but remain role-bounded. What was tested A bounded dry-run protocol was used to stress the triad across nine cycles of unfolding motion summaries. The sequence included:
The test discipline was strict: only the output of the immediately prior role was passed forward at each stage. Observation Across the dry runs, several matters held up:
The strongest finding was not confirmation alone, but disciplined revision across the full arc. |
PrincipleIn this prototype, coordination appeared to be revised less by static labeling and more by coherence pressure. Operationally, coherence meant:
What was promoted was not what was most rhetorically attractive, but what remained coherent enough. What was de-promoted or collapsed was not erased arbitrarily, but revised when coherence no longer supported it. Main resultThe nine-cycle run supports the following bounded claim: A prompt-instantiated TU / TU+ / cortexLLM triad can remain role-distinct, use shared structured state to preserve and revise choreography across cycles, absorb mismatch, represent multi-source coupling, provisionally confirm joint choreography under sustained co-motion, and later de-confirm that choreography into a new independent stable reading when coherence no longer supports the joint field. This is not proof of a finished engineered world model. It is, however, evidence for a clearer engineering path: actual sub-division of LLM labor into specific TU, TU+, and cortexLLM agents organized around coherence-sensitive role specialization. Why this mattersIf this direction is correct, then future world models may depend less on one monolithic LLM and more on structured divisions of labor among LLM agents, with symbolic interpretation constrained by a lower coherence-tracking field rather than dominating it from the start. The significance of the prototype is therefore architectural: it clarifies a candidate path beyond static Cartesian-style control assumptions and toward a more dynamic, coherence-driven form of world modeling. Current status and direction This note reports architectural evidence for a coherence-driven division of LLM labor and a plausible engineering path toward more stable world-model-like behavior. The work has since progressed far beyond the initial bounded dry-run stage into a more explicit protocol direction centered on role separation, structured state continuity, bounded revision, and coherence-sensitive coordination across cycles. |
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- Repository URL
- https://github.com/gradient-pulse/phi-mesh
- Programming language
- Python
- Development Status
- Active