Improve documentation for consciousness equation parameters
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Read symthaea-core/src/hdc/consciousness_equation.rs, focusing on ConsciousnessEquationV2 and the ConsciousnessStateV2 fields. Then inspect parameter population under src/cognitive_loop/consciousness_engine/ and consult papers/latex/hai_paper.tex for context. Done means each field has rustdoc covering its role, range, Φ sensitivity, substrate_feasibility interaction, and default rationale; verify with cargo doc -p symthaea-core --no-deps.
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Description
Summary
The consciousness equation (IIT Φ computation) in symthaea-core/src/hdc/consciousness_equation.rs has many tunable parameters but limited documentation on their effects.
What needs documenting
Add rustdoc comments explaining:
- Each parameter's role in the Φ computation
- Valid ranges (many are 0.0–1.0 but some have different semantics)
- Impact on Φ scores — which parameters are most sensitive
- Substrate feasibility interaction — how
substrate_feasibilitymodulates the final score - Default values and why they were chosen
References
- Tononi, G. (2004). An information integration theory of consciousness. BMC Neuroscience.
- Our HAI paper in
papers/latex/hai_paper.tex ConsciousnessEquationV2is the current implementationConsciousnessStateV2holds the input parameters
Getting started
- Read
symthaea-core/src/hdc/consciousness_equation.rs - Look at how parameters are populated in
src/cognitive_loop/consciousness_engine/ - Add
///doc comments to each field inConsciousnessStateV2 - Verify docs build:
cargo doc -p symthaea-core --no-deps
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 9
- Forks
- 1
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 8
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