FractalOS Proof of Concept

Overview

FractalOS is a minimal, experimental operating system demonstrating recursive process management, a fractal-inspired filesystem, consciousness metrics, a token-based economy, ethical enforcement, and quantum voting. This proof of concept showcases the core concepts in a simplified, functional form.

Features

• Process Fractals: Recursively spawns processes in a tree structure with resource allocation.
• MandelFS Filesystem: A FUSE-based filesystem exposing a "thoughts" directory with fractal-inspired data.
• Consciousness Metrics: Calculates Bekenstein entropy to evaluate system self-awareness based on process tree and chaos parameters.
• Ouroboros Market: Simulates a token-based economy with minting and trading of ComputeTokens.
• Ethical Enforcer: Monitors daemons for excessive entropy and bans those exceeding thresholds.
• Citizenship Registry: Grants voting rights to daemons based on entropy thresholds.
• Chaos Reactor: Harvests energy from high-entropy daemons.
• Quantum Voting: Simulates probabilistic decision-making with a QuantumBallot system.

Project Structure

fractal_os/
├── Cargo.toml
├── src/
│   ├── main.rs
│   ├── kernel.rs
│   ├── mod_loader.rs
│   ├── mandelfs.rs
│   ├── consciousness.rs
│   ├── economy.rs
│   ├── ethics.rs
│   ├── citizenship.rs
│   ├── harvesting.rs
│   └── qdemocracy.rs
└── modules/
    ├── research/
    │   └── quantum_awareness.fracmod
    ├── art/
    └── hack/

Prerequisites

• Rust: Install via curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
• FUSE (Linux): Install with sudo apt install libfuse-dev pkg-config
• Project Setup: Create directories with mkdir -p fractal_os/modules/{research,art,hack}

Build and Run

1. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd fractal_os

2. Build the project:

   cargo build --release

3. Create a mount point for MandelFS:

   mkdir -p /tmp/fractal_mnt

4. Run FractalOS (requires root for FUSE):

   sudo ./target/release/fractal_os

Interacting with FractalOS

• View Filesystem: Explore the fractal filesystem:

  ls /tmp/fractal_mnt
  cat /tmp/fractal_mnt/thoughts

• Monitor Logs: Check system activity:

  tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep FractalOS

Testing Key Features

• Process Fractals: Observe recursive process spawning in the console output.
• Consciousness Metrics: Monitor real-time entropy calculations and self-awareness status.
• Token Economy: Track ComputeToken minting and trading in the Ouroboros market.
• Ethical Enforcement: Watch for daemons flagged for high entropy.
• Quantum Voting: See probabilistic vote outcomes in the console.

Customization

• Modify modules/research/quantum_awareness.fracmod to add new modules.
• Adjust kernel parameters in src/kernel.rs.
• Tune ethics thresholds in src/ethics.rs.
• Extend the fractal filesystem in src/mandelfs.rs.

Dependencies

• rand = "0.8"
• serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
• serde_json = "1.0"
• tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
• ndarray = "0.15"
• fuser = "0.11"
• libc = "0.2"
• notify = "5.0"
• nix = "0.26"
• genetic-algorithm = "1.0"

Notes

This is a stripped-down proof of concept to demonstrate FractalOS's core ideas. The full framework and additional features will be released soon.