Appetites (A)

Canonical definition

Appetites (A) is the homeostatic deficit-signalling and deficit-repair termination channel of the AIM architecture. A produces valuation signals scaled to bodily deficit states (oxygen and the drive to breathe, hunger, thirst, thermoregulation, sleep pressure, tissue damage, reproductive drive) and terminates those signals on consumption or repair. A-satiation is the canonical closed-loop termination condition in the AIM system. A does not classify its own signals, does not identify which Objects repair its deficits, does not store priors, and does not maintain cognitive content of any kind, all classification, Object-identification, and causal knowledge linking Objects to repair is maintained by Intrinsic Motivation (I). This entry specifies Appetites (A) at the Disaggregation Primitive level per the Dashboard Gauge Principle, the specification describes A's behavioural outputs and association dynamics as a reading surface over the underlying neural substrate, not as a claim about neural-module separability.