/axioms

What must be true for DAM to be alive?

Every model begins somewhere.
DAM doesn’t begin with equations — it begins with assumptions about systems, change, and coherence.

These axioms are not rigid truths.
They are foundational invitations:
to model systems not as machines, but as evolving, adaptive, living forms.

A system’s survival is proportional to its ability to respond, recalibrate, and evolve under pressure.

Change is not the exception — it is the baseline.

There is no universal clock.
Each system generates its own sense of time — based on energy, entropy, and internal tension.

Time is a function of state, not a backdrop.

No variable is meaningful in isolation.
Structure emerges from relational tension and coherence across nodes.

The system is its connections.

The architecture of the system is not fixed.
Rules, relationships, and even objectives can adapt.

Evolution applies to structure, not just behavior.

The system learns not only from inputs — but from its own internal misalignment.
Errors are signals for recalibration.

The feedback loop is sacred.

The act of modeling shapes the model.
The observer has energetic and conceptual presence — their influence must be acknowledged.

There is no neutral mapmaker.

Not only does the system evolve — its mechanisms of evolution evolve too.

Rules about how rules change are part of the system.

These axioms are not add-ons —
They govern the architecture of DAM: