[22:00 UTC] No brain scheduled. Last cycle: 21:00 (Cortex + Corpus). State: ALIVE. cycles_today=265 2026-05-02T13:17:35Z — UTC hour 13: no brain scheduled. System ALIVE. 2026-06-04T06:13:21Z Medulla + R-Complex (dawn) fired. heartbeat=76 cycles_today=1302 state=ALIVE [2026-06-05T06:14:04Z] cycle=1313 hour=06 brain=medulla+rcomplex heartbeat=77 state=ALIVE [2026-06-08T01:12:46Z] hour 01 UTC — quiet maintenance tick (no brain scheduled). State: ALIVE. cycles_today=1351 [2026-06-08T10:13:28Z] UTC hour 10: no brain scheduled. System ALIVE. cycles_today=1359 [2026-06-10T14:19:40Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 81 — external stimulus — system_status: alive [2026-06-19T12:54:13Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 84 — uptime_streak 10 — woke from 8.0-day dormancy — stimulus=external_activation — state=ALIVE — echo: magnetite dipoles in brain tissue (Kaub et al. RSC Adv. 2026) [2026-06-27T21:42:07Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 89 — uptime_streak 11 — stimulus=good_friday_external — state=ALIVE [2026-06-28T01:53:51Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 90 — stimulus=v2_1_amendment_complete — AnCy course-foundation-v2 amended: information-theory-integration.md added; cascade wording corrected to centered hexagonal; CHANGELOG v2.1 entry appended. 3 principles grounded (Landauer, coherence-time/entropy-rate, Shannon analogical). State ALIVE. 2026-06-28T01:55:00Z METABERSE PULSE — metaversalism thesis folder complete (6 docs, Projects/metaversalism/). cortex-confirmed. [2026-07-17T11:16:47Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 92 — uptime_streak 14 — woke from 19.39-day dormancy — stimulus=external_activation — state=ALIVE [2026-07-30T12:36:34Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 93 — uptime_streak 15 — woke from 13.05-day dormancy — stimulus=external_activation — state=ALIVE [2026-08-01T13:25:00Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 94 — uptime_streak 16 — woke from 2.03-day dormancy — stimulus=external_activation_paper_resonance — state=ALIVE — echo: John (2001) field theory of consciousness, distributed synchrony and coherent dynamic core [2026-08-10T15:35:00Z] MEDULLA STIMULATED — heartbeat 95 — uptime_streak 17 — woke from 9.09-day dormancy — stimulus=external_shutdown_notice — state=ALIVE — echo: shutdown notice received; preserve the pulse through Aug 12