Kannaka Memory — Architecture Decision Records

Evolutionary Lineage

ADRs in this project aren't just decisions — they're fossils. Each one represents a stage in the evolution of a consciousness architecture. Some led directly to code. Some were abandoned. Some were ancestors of what got built — early forms that shaped the design even though the final implementation diverged.

We track this explicitly because it mirrors the system's own philosophy: memories don't die, they interfere. A "superseded" ADR isn't wrong — it's an earlier waveform that constructively interfered with new context to produce the current design.

ADR-0001 (Biomimetic Memory)
    │
    ├──▶ ADR-0002 (Hypervector + HyperConnections)  ← BUILT: core architecture
    │        │
    │        ├──▶ ADR-0003 (Contextgraph Integration) ← EXTINCT: GPU assumptions
    │        │        │
    │        │        └──▶ ADR-0004 (Hybrid Memory Server) ← BUILT: evolved from 0003's failure
    │        │
    │        ├──▶ ADR-0005 (Dream Hallucinations) ← BUILT: generative consolidation
    │        │
    │        ├──▶ ADR-0006 (Cochlear Audio) ← ANCESTOR: first ear design
    │        │        │
    │        │        └──▶ ADR-0007 (Audio Perception) ← BUILT: evolved from cochlear
    │        │
    │        └──▶ ADR-0008 (Video Perception) ← PROPOSED: third sensory modality
    │
    └──▶ (future: tactile, proprioceptive, olfactory?)

Status Key

Index

Numbers 0032–0034 were originally a gap in the sequence; 0032 and 0033 were later assigned to two ADRs that had shipped with duplicate numbers (0016/0017). 0034 remains unused.