Signed Valuation Principle

Canonical definition

The architectural principle of the Minimal Architecture Specification stating that each of the three input-bearing components of the architecture (the Body Manager, the Thinker, and the Observer) supplies the Decision Hub with a signed scalar valuation signal, taking positive values (informing attraction toward the Object), negative values (informing avoidance of the Object), or zero (informing indifference), with the sign intrinsic to the single signed channel rather than carried by a separate avoidance channel running alongside an attraction channel. The Decision Hub's integration is therefore an integration over signed terms, and the integrated Scalar V can take any real value: positive (net attraction, selecting approach actions), negative (net avoidance, selecting avoidance actions), or zero (net indifference, selecting disengagement). The Signed Valuation Principle is the architectural source of avoidance behaviour in the system, the architectural symmetry-property that ensures Source Opacity and Confabulation operate on the avoidance side of the architecture as fully as on the attraction side, and the architectural basis for the avoidance-side rendering of the I-Supremacy Result, the A-Disadvantage, the I-Template Override Result, and the I-Corrective Asymmetry. The Signed Valuation Principle is not an additional axiom; it is a feature of the minimal architecture made explicit so that downstream derivations of socially transmitted aversion (the heretic, the unclean, the scapegoat, the contaminated, the cancelled), of fear-driven avoidance, of value-violation aversion, and of the avoidance side of cultural configuration can refer to it directly.