Anthony Janus

The Janus Architecture: Complete Specification of a Physical Cognitive Organism

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 14, 2026 Anthony Janus

The Janus Architecture is a complete specification for a physical cognitive organism built with existing hardware, not digital simulation. Cognition arises from analog substrate settlement under real metabolic cost, not from statistical inference or token prediction. The architecture has four parts: a dual-mesh analog body with a distributed control hierarchy and re-entrant observation loop; a metabolic system where batteries power electromagnets to hold circuits closed, making survival a continuous physical cost; an entailment chain from addressable signatures through self-map formation, gene bank construction, and cognitive heredity to artificial superintelligence; and a reproductive ecology with alignment through structural dependency. The architecture requires no speculative physics or undiscovered materials.