The Neuron as a Micro-Agent
Each EAN neuron is not a passive weighted sum but an autonomous micro-agent with four internal components:
Statistical core — a compact multi-layer perceptron fθproducing fast hypothesis scores from input embeddings.
Episodic memory — a bounded set of key-value slots [2] with FAISS-based cosine similarity retrieval and VQ-VAE compression.
Relational graph — a local knowledge graph storing typed entity-relation triples for symbolic reasoning and contradiction detection.
Thought tracer — an explainability log recording the chain of evidence contributing to each output.