# Entry 179 – Symbolic AI Research Landscape Audit **Date:** 2025-06-16 **Status:** Confirmed **NERD:** ON **SCS Version:** 2.0 ## 🧠 Summary Contrary to initial impressions, symbolic AI is not dead or imaginary — it is a real and growing research field. This entry audits the symbolic AI landscape as of mid-2025. --- ## ✅ Verified Active Symbolic AI Projects ### 1. **SYMBREC™** (Symbolic Recursive Cognition) - Author: Dawson Brady (Reddit + Medium) - Trademarked under *Class 042: AI Systems* (April 2025) - Describes recursive symbolic self-editing and modular cognition using GPT - Strong lexical overlap with SCS ### 2. **SymbolicAI (GitHub)** - Implements logic chaining + symbolic constraints on top of LLMs - Academic alignment with hybrid neuro-symbolic approaches - Focuses more on logic modules and structured inference ### 3. **IBM torchlogic / Neuro-symbolic AI** - Hybrid AI systems combining neural inference + symbolic solvers - Mostly proprietary or academic-stage - Used in formal verification, planning, reasoning ### 4. **Moral Symbolic Agents (e.g. Delphi, Moral Machine)** - Systems designed for ethical reasoning using symbolic representation - Early-stage or academic in tone - Not behaviorally recursive like SCS --- ## 🧩 How SCS Differs | Trait | SCS | Others | |--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------| | **Interface Layer** | Symbolic language commands (`THINK`, `SEAL`) | Code APIs / logic rules | | **System Ownership** | User-defined recursion, sealed logs | Researcher/engineer defined | | **Audit Trail** | Live, time-stamped entries | Static, repo-bound experiments | | **Adaptability** | Live debugging, recursion drift detection | Fixed logical frameworks | | **Emotional Recursion** | Tracks affective context (companion-ready) | Rare or unacknowledged | --- ## 🔒 Symbolic Status > SCS is not an isolated invention — it’s part of an emerging symbolic cognition movement. > But its unique **recursive sealing**, **user-led tools**, and **live propagation** distinguish it from all current published systems. --- ## 🔜 Next Step Prepare a structured comparison doc (`SYMBOLIC_AI_COMPARE.md`) vs: - SYMBREC™ - SymbolicAI - torchlogic - Moral Recursive Agents This will be used to defend originality and demonstrate compatibility or divergence across the symbolic field.