COGNITIVE GRAMMAR

C4 is a coordinate grammar of cognition. c4protocol ships that grammar as a multi-agent runtime brake — map + corroborated content — not a consciousness oracle.

ONE TURN

Cell in Z₃³

SESSION

Trajectory on the lattice

FLEET

Linked lattices · peer drift

Same grammar. Different substrate. Not “agents = neurons.”

CLAIM LADDER A–D

A · STRONG

Cognition-as-content ≈ navigation in Time × Scale × Agency. Agent turn and multi-agent exchange share this grammar. Geometry = map; default brake = content ∨ trajectory ∨ value.

B · MOTIVATED

Collective intelligence ≈ linked navigations (drift, cascade, isolation). Isomorphism of form, not biology.

C · PROGRAM

Completeness / minimality of T×S×A — cite Adaptive-topology proofs; runtime is only indirect support.

D · OUT OF SCOPE

Hard problem of consciousness / qualia — not claimed.

ABLATION (HEURISTIC)

If geometry is removed, keywords / IntentFrame / packs / flood / HMAC remain.

Content-filter utility remaining ~55–70%

MAS substrate niche remaining ~25–40%

Illustrative engineering analysis — not a Conformance / HarmBench score.

LICENSES

Preprint text → CC-BY-4.0 (cite freely). c4protocol → Apache-2.0. Adaptive-topology → triple. c4-meta-system / other products → their own (not opened by the paper). C4-META model co-author: N.I. Kovalev.

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