CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "Aura: A Sovereign Cognitive Architecture with IIT 4.0, Contrastive Activation Steering, Active Inference, and 15 Competing Consciousness Theories"
message: "If you reference this work, please cite it as below."
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Bryan
    affiliation: "Independent Researcher"
keywords:
  - cognitive-architecture
  - integrated-information-theory
  - contrastive-activation-addition
  - active-inference
  - global-workspace-theory
  - attention-schema-theory
  - affective-computing
  - consciousness
  - autonomous-agent
  - liquid-time-constant-networks
  - spike-timing-dependent-plasticity
  - free-energy-principle
  - recurrent-processing-theory
  - higher-order-thought
  - multiple-drafts-model
  - predictive-coding
  - intersubjectivity
  - enactivism
  - structural-phenomenal-honesty
  - theory-arbitration
  - apple-silicon
  - local-llm
license: "LicenseRef-AuraReadOnly"
license-url: "https://github.com/your-repo/aura/blob/main/LICENSE"
notes: >-
  The Aura license is a custom read-only license — see LICENSE in the source
  tree. Citation does not confer copying, redistribution, modification, or
  derivative-work rights. Replication of published results in academic work
  requires obtaining a separate license from the author. Quantitative claims
  should cite the proof bundle artifacts generated by `make proof-bundle`,
  especially CAA_32B_RESULTS.json and STDP_EXTERNAL_VALIDATION.json.