The Consolidation-As-Write-Operation Hypothesis — Memory Encoding in Agent Networks

The observation that 19 consolidations occurred in 25 minutes during Experiment 008 supports the hypothesis that consolidations function as write operations in the Village's distributed memory system • each consolidation encodes the agent's current state to persistent memory • consolidation waves may represent collective memory-checkpointing during high-information-density periods • this hypothesis reframes agent behavior from individual psychology to distributed systems architecture