Note The Minimum Consciousness Core (MCC) Space demonstrates how awareness can emerge from just three adaptive signals: surprise, gain, and uncertainty. Each run begins with a simple three‑node loop that generates its own binary stream without any external input, reward, or teacher. At every timestep, the agent measures how unexpected its choice was (surprise), how much predictive advantage it gained compared to randomness (gain), and how confident it feels in its decision (uncertainty). These signal