This is the public log of an attempt to build an artificial intelligence that learns from observation alone — no objectives, no rewards, no success criteria imposed from outside. Whatever goals it develops, it has to develop on its own.

The project is named Reverie because the system spends most of its life dreaming: cycling through its own past observations between external inputs, integrating, settling toward quiet, until a new observation perturbs it again.

Entries are written before reading the literature that touches the same territory. The aim is independent first-principles construction, with the existing work consulted only after the framework is fully specified. Entries are dated, numbered, and immutable; revisions happen in new entries, not by editing old ones.