Reflexive Reality: A Survey for AI, Agents, and AGI Researchers Theorem-Grade Constraints on Intelligence, Agency, Safety, and Machine Consciousness

This paper is Paper C4 of the Reflexive Reality capstone series. It surveys the program for researchers in AI, AGI, multi-agent systems, AI safety, cognitive science, and agent foundations. Every load-bearing claim marked with a bracketed citation corresponds to a machine-checked theorem in Lean 4 with zero custom axioms and zero sorry. To verify: lake update (2) a formal definition of genuine autonomous agency (SIAM) with separation theorems proving feedforward and stateless systems do not qualify; (3) no institution can be total, sound, and complete as an AI verifier under diagonal constraints; (4) the simulation hypothesis is closed on three independent grounds; (5) the Reflexive Development Law formally distinguishes genuine AI progress from scaling, iteration, and relabeling; and (6) machine sentience has a formal structural characterization that is substrate-independent. Trust boundary. This is an expository portal. Bracket-tagged claims are listed in . AI-facing gloss and motivation are not additional theorem statements unless tagged as theorem-extracted. Claim levels follow the opening Claim-typing discipline keybox.