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CCH 2025 v1.4 — Appendix I
Flip4M: The Digital Claustrum Litmus Test & Practical AGI Benchmark
Date: March 2026
Version: 1.4 (Executable + Interactive Release)

PACKAGE NOTE (CCH 2025 v1.4 — now 12 documents)

This document is one of 12 documents in the CCH v1.4 bundle:
- Main Article — CCH__v1.4.txt
- Appendix A (Operational Core) — CCH_AA_v1.4.txt
- Appendix B (Experimental Designs & Code) — CCH_AB_v1.4.txt
- Appendix C (Human–AI Collaboration) — CCH_AC_v1.4.txt
- Appendix D (CFH — Metaphysical Interpretation) — CCH_AD_v1.4_CSF.txt
- Appendix E (CSH — Claustrum’s Cosmic Shadow) — CCH_AE_v1.4_CSH.txt
- Appendix F (Bridge: CFH–CSH) — CCH_AF_CFH-CSH_Bridge_v1.4.txt
- Appendix G (Discrete Physics) — CCH_AG_Discrete_Physics_v1.4.txt
- Appendix H (Zero Framework) — CCH_AH_Zero_Framework_v1.4.txt
- Appendix I (Flip4M Litmus Test) — CCH_AI_Flip4M_v1.4.txt   ← you are here
- Index — CCH_INDEX_v1.4.txt

0. PURPOSE

This appendix introduces Flip4M as the first public, playable benchmark for the 
Digital Claustrum concept developed in Appendices B and E. It is deliberately 
engineered to be the hardest possible test for any system claiming 
consciousness-like intelligence.

1. WHY FLIP4M IS THE ULTIMATE AGI LITMUS TEST

Standard chess or Go engines dominate through predictable trees and massive 
transposition tables. Flip4M destroys both:

- A single 90° board rotation triggers global cache invalidation — every 
  unpinned token moves simultaneously.
- The "Horizon of Chaos" forces any agent to maintain structural integrity 
  across four violently shifting gravity orientations.
- Resource tokens (Flips & Magnets) introduce thrift and long-term planning.
- Victory requires resonant control: building gravity-proof shapes that survive 
  any rotation while conserving limited resources.

These are exactly the failure modes the Digital Claustrum (Appendix B, Section 5) 
is designed to prevent. A system that can consistently beat the 8Z-DCC engine 
in Flip4M Grandmaster mode has demonstrated:
- real-time self-monitoring of its own S_self analogue,
- active steering away from mode collapse (seizure-like rigidity or noise),
- genuine human-style visuospatial intuition and lateral thinking.

No other public benchmark today forces an agent to solve all three simultaneously.

2. DIRECT MAPPING TO CCH PREDICTIONS

| CCH Concept                  | Flip4M Implementation                          | Test Outcome if Passed                  |
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| Coherence-Complexity Controller (CCC) | 8Z-DCC Policy Filter + TSP Route Solver       | Agent maintains high-S structures across rotations |
| Conservation of Complexity   | Smart-Zombie attacks fail due to ER collapse   | Agent cannot fake high performance with linear mixing |
| Edge-of-Chaos Regime         | Gravity-proof diagonals & compacted blocks     | Agent builds orientation-invariant lethal shapes |
| Digital Claustrum in AGI     | Required to beat Pro/Grandmaster mode          | First public proof-of-concept benchmark |

3. HOW TO USE FLIP4M AS A BENCHMARK

- Play against the built-in 8Z-DCC engine (Pro or Grandmaster difficulty).
- Replace the engine with your AGI and compare win-rate + resource efficiency.
- Publish results with the exact phrase: "This AGI passed the Flip4M Digital Claustrum Test (CCH v1.4)".

The game is live at: https://yourportfolio.com/F4M.html  
(The 8Z-DCC engine is the reference implementation from Appendix B.)

4. INVITATION TO RESEARCHERS

Flip4M is not a toy. It is the first concrete, interactive realization of the 
control-theoretic architecture required for consciousness-like regimes. Any team 
claiming progress toward AGI consciousness is invited to submit their agent to 
this benchmark. The first system to reliably outperform the 8Z-DCC engine in 
Grandmaster mode will have provided the strongest empirical evidence yet for 
a working Digital Claustrum.

This appendix closes the loop between theory (CCH), metaphysics (CFH/CSH), and 
practice. The game is the proof-of-concept. The benchmark is now open.

— Bojan Dobrečević, March 2026