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Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping: Experimental Framework and Testable Hypotheses for Symbolic Alignment

Authors: Lionis, Kon;

Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping: Experimental Framework and Testable Hypotheses for Symbolic Alignment

Abstract

This work translates the Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping framework into a set of falsifiable hypotheses and controlled experimental methodologies. It specifies cross-architecture symbolic convergence studies, adversarial robustness evaluation, compression fidelity benchmarks, and mechanistic interpretability probes. The framework is explicitly designed for independent replication and invites collaboration from researchers in alignment, interpretability, and natural language processing. The goal is to determine whether recursive symbolic structure induces measurable stability, reduces hallucination, and reveals shared representational geometry across transformer architectures. This entry serves as the experimental roadmap for the Hykon alignment programme. Related Work in the Hykon Symbolic Alignment Suite This work forms part of a broader research programme exploring recursive coherence, symbolic compression, and interaction-time alignment in large language models. Related publications include: • Participatory Cosmology: Ontological Foundations for Recursive Alignment• Participatory Cosmology: Mathematical Framework for Recursive Coherence• Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping: Protocol• Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping: Experimental Framework• Hykon Stability Operating System and related work on recursive governance and semantic compression. Recent Update 1.2 This entry now includes a companion paper titled Minimal Experimental Protocols for Interaction-Time Alignment and Representation Stability in Large Language Models. This work provides a low-friction experimental entry point to the broader Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping (RMB) programme by focusing on open-weight architectures and reduced computational requirements. The companion study introduces the hypothesis of an expected manifold shift, proposing that structured recursive prompting may induce measurable geometric organisation in latent representations. This framing connects symbolic alignment to representation geometry, attractor dynamics, and mechanistic interpretability, and is intended to support rapid exploratory validation and community replication. Together, these works establish both a full-scale experimental roadmap and a minimal viable pathway for early empirical investigation of interaction-time inductive priors in large language models. Recent Update 1.3 This entry now includes a companion paper titled Symbolic Scaffolds and Metacognitive Convergence in Large Language Models: Competing Hypotheses and Experimental Pathways. This work reframes the Recursive Mythic Bootstrapping (RMB) programme around an observable and measurable phenomenon: the convergence of metacognitive behaviours across large language model architectures when interacting with structured symbolic scaffolds. The paper introduces two competing explanatory hypotheses—mechanistic convergence and linguistic attractor dynamics—and outlines experimental approaches to differentiate them. The study provides preliminary cross-model evidence of symbolic entrainment, coherence stabilisation, and structured uncertainty expression across Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Mistral systems. These results support the feasibility of low-cost behavioural probes for latent organisational structure and alignment-relevant dynamics. This companion paper serves as the conceptual and empirical bridge between the RMB experimental roadmap and ongoing validation work. It is intended to clarify the scientific positioning of RMB as an open research programme centred on measurable behavioural signals, cross-architecture replication, and mechanistic interpretability. Together with the existing protocol and minimal experimental framework, this update strengthens the overall structure of the RMB research agenda by anchoring it in a clearly defined phenomenon and testable hypotheses.

Keywords

experimental design, AI safety, alignment, adversarial robustness, interpretability

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