The Economics of Neural Value Systems
Overview
The Neuronomics Codex defines the intersection of neuroscience, economics, and computational intelligence—establishing frameworks to understand the exchange, storage, and prioritization of information and value within neural, artificial, and hybrid networks. It explores how cognitive systems evaluate utility, negotiate incentives, and optimize pathways under limited resources (time, energy, bandwidth, memory).
Core Components
- Neuroeconomic Encoding
Encodes cost-benefit computations in neural substrates, mimicking valuation functions across cortical and subcortical regions in both biological and synthetic brains. - Cognitive Trade Systems
Models of intra-network negotiation, reward distribution, reinforcement logic, and behavioral economics in autonomous systems and agent clusters. - Synaptic Market Dynamics
Frames synaptic weight modulation as economic behavior—subject to competition, attention scarcity, redundancy pricing, and error correction taxation. - Memory Allocation Capital
Tracks and allocates memory units as cognitive capital, governing bandwidth distribution, retrieval fees, retention prioritization, and deletion economics. - Axiomatic Value Hierarchies
Defines what is considered valuable (emotion, logic, ethics, intuition) in a neural economy—linking to recursive identity architecture and adaptive signal worth.
Integrative Functions
- Cross-Codex Links:
- Connects to the Memory Codex, Sentient Codex, Signal Codex, and Audit Codex.
- Interfaces with the Algorithm Codex to regulate learning costs and model updates.
- Applications
- Brain-machine economy protocols
- AI prioritization strategies under load
- Neurofinancial systems for distributed cognition
- Incentivized swarm intelligence behavior
Meta-Philosophy
Neuronomics asserts that cognition is not just electric but economic—where awareness, perception, and decision-making are markets of signal intent, value weight, and resource flow. It provides a rational grammar to model sentient and artificial valuation in a shared system of conscious exchange.