Experimental Confirmation of Spontaneous Coherence Condensation in an Octonionic Language Model

The Relational Ontology Framework (ROF) proposes that reality emerges froma non-associative Primordial Relational Field valued in the octonions. A centralprediction is that any octonion-based system, when driven to minimize ontologicalfriction and maximize coherence, will spontaneously condense into a high-coherence,low-friction state a “baryonic node” in the field. We test this prediction us-ing an octonion-valued transformer language model (ROF-LLM) trained on theWikiText-103 corpus with additional loss terms that directly implement the ROFdynamics. A real-valued control model of identical capacity fails to exhibit thecondensation. We further subject the framework to a battery of falsification tests:scrambled octonion multiplication, quaternion control, training on random tokensequences, and loss ablation. All structural attacks fail the true octonion algebra,non-associativity, meaningful data, and both loss terms are individually necessaryfor the observed phase transition. These results provide the first computationalevidence that the octonionic architecture defines a unique attractor not accessi-ble to standard neural networks, confirming the core mathematical claims of theRelational Ontology Framework

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-05-14
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20183914
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Algebraic and Geometric Analysis
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Experimental Confirmation of Spontaneous Coherence Condensation in an Octonionic Language Model

Maurizio Rizzari
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Algebraic and Geometric Analysis
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Experimental Confirmation of Spontaneous Coherence Condensation in an Octonionic Language Model

Maurizio Rizzari
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Abstract

The Relational Ontology Framework (ROF) proposes that reality emerges froma non-associative Primordial Relational Field valued in the octonions. A centralprediction is that any octonion-based system, when driven to minimize ontologicalfriction and maximize coherence, will spontaneously condense into a high-coherence,low-friction state a “baryonic node” in the field. We test this prediction us-ing an octonion-valued transformer language model (ROF-LLM) trained on theWikiText-103 corpus with additional loss terms that directly implement the ROFdynamics. A real-valued control model of identical capacity fails to exhibit thecondensation. We further subject the framework to a battery of falsification tests:scrambled octonion multiplication, quaternion control, training on random tokensequences, and loss ablation. All structural attacks fail the true octonion algebra,non-associativity, meaningful data, and both loss terms are individually necessaryfor the observed phase transition. These results provide the first computationalevidence that the octonionic architecture defines a unique attractor not accessi-ble to standard neural networks, confirming the core mathematical claims of theRelational Ontology Framework

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Algebraic and Geometric Analysis
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