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Inside a brain, inside a chip

doke needs an interactive hardware direction anchored in its existing brain explorer. This proposal makes a user's input traceable through CPU/GPU/tensor computation or packet-switch queues, then places the original human atlas alongside it for a carefully scoped comparison.

This PR establishes the research and data foundation. The review stack now includes executable Rust models and the actual 3D interface: models #5, silicon explorer #6, and brain comparison #7. Nothing from #1–#3 is included, and no PR is approved for merging.

• Research and phased specification: four concrete interactions, six later ideas, primary project/paper research, architecture decisions, validation and comparison limits.
• Six curated reference profiles: Ryzen 9 9950X, RTX 5090, H100 SXM, TPU v4, Cisco Silicon One G200 and G300. Each of 36 facts has a primary-source URL and section locator. Exact model parameters remain separate from product specifications.
• Four source-guided vision stages reference existing human-atlas IDs. Biological guide time is explicitly authored. The silicon filter computes numbers; the brain view does not compute object recognition or a personal brain response.
• No generic brain FLOPS, clock-speed race, TDP-as-energy score, proprietary Cisco internals or arbitrary-chip emulator. Publicly documented mechanisms and future measured traces have separate roles.

The proposed interactions are change memory locality, follow work across GPU lanes, watch actual multiply–accumulate flow, and unblock a packet's destination. Longer-term ideas include a byte's biography, reducing traffic while preserving output, tiny attention, measured trace import, original RTL, and licensed recorded neural trials.

Three agents researched CPU/GPU architectures, Cisco/tensor/LLM mechanisms, and neuroscience/comparison methods. The catalog received an independent source review, including variant distinctions and GB/GiB/bandwidth units. NVIDIA white-paper diagrams were visually reviewed under the PDF workflow. No external code, artwork, weights, SDK or RTL was copied.

Validation: node tests/hardware-catalog.mjs passes, checking all profile citations, evidence references and anatomy IDs; git diff --check and Gitleaks passed. Added a CI source/model check. The current application remains unchanged in this PR.

Working visual prototypes

These are captures of the implemented explorer, not generated concept art. See #6 and #7 for interaction instructions and browser validation.

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