ALEX v2: A Self-Observing Cognitive Architecture for Risk-Aware Intelligence

This publication formally documents the ALEX v2 Cognitive Architecture — a self-observing, ethically bounded, risk-interpreting intelligence framework.The contribution is not a new model parameterization, but a novel ordered sequence of cognitive processes governing reasoning, interpretation, and restraint. The core innovation lies in the explicit sequencing and interdependence of intent recognition, ethical gating, memory fusion, cognitive risk quantification, interpretive translation, self-observation, and global coherence validation. This document establishes priority of authorship over the architecture, sequence, and functional relationships described herein.