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An AI architecture governed by low-entropy representational layers (a 'semantic top') can autonomously identify and repair missing components in its own ontology, enabling reproducible and machine-checked scientific discovery. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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Develop and evaluate an artificial intelligence architecture capable of autonomously detecting, formulating, and verifying updates to its internal ontology when encountering novel situations.

August 23, 2026Open Access

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Develop and evaluate an artificial intelligence architecture capable of autonomously detecting, formulating, and verifying updates to its internal ontology when encountering novel situations.
Designed SEMPL (Semantic Patterns Language), a constrained-natural-language process engine governed by a low-entropy semantic top and a verify-before-adopt rule.
Developed the D0 novelty-injection benchmark to evaluate recall and precision during ontology ablation experiments.
Tested scientific rederivation capacity by tasking the system to infer heliocentrism from naked-eye observations across 40 shuffled seeds.
Achieved a recall of 1.000 at precision 1.000 across three declarative registries on the D0 benchmark with zero live ontology mutations.
Reproducibly derived axial rotation and heliocentric planetary orbit from ancient observational priors across all 40 random seeds.

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Computational framework demonstrates autonomous ontology re-derivation and scientific discovery in process engines, indicating pathways toward self-updating artificial intelligence.

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Vladimir Mikhailov (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8aae207677a34114446de2 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22051259

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Computational framework demonstrates autonomous ontology re-derivation and scientific discovery in process engines, indicating pathways toward self-updating artificial intelligence.

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