AGI-only artificial-life research program
Can a living ecology make competence and individuality emerge?
GHOST tests whether a digital organism can earn adaptive behavior through survival, reproduction, heredity, and ecological selection rather than a ranked external fitness grader.
Living ecology increased inherited competence without ranked reproductive grading. Different lifetime histories produced persistent adaptive individuality. Learning-specific plasticity parameters were heritable and causally selectable. Ecological selection enriched the inherited capacity to become an adaptive individual.
A bounded smoke or local structural effect is not AGI. GHOST has not yet established scalable searchability, broad continual learning, transfer, abstraction, long-horizon agency, open-ended capability growth, or ecological re-earning by a scalable brain.
The project moves only when a frozen gate passes, false explanations are excluded, and the required independent audit certifies the claim. Failed architectures stay in the record instead of being quietly rewritten as progress.
GHOST is a scientific program, not a companion, avatar, product deployment, or claim of operational AGI.
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