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title: "Time-Division Multiplexing: The Operational Rhythm and Temporal Organization Layer of Digital Life"
source: "arXiv AI/CL/LG（论文）"
source_tier: "t2"
url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.06603v1"
permalink: "https://feed.astralor.com/items/itm_2a5b4c31415d963ea062d34d"
published: "2026-11-04T14:54:53.000Z"
score: 60
channel: "tech"
tags: ["AI Agent","安全","多模态","Time-Division Multiplexing","The Operational Rhythm","Temporal Organization Layer","Digital Life Continual","Continual"]
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# Time-Division Multiplexing: The Operational Rhythm and Temporal Organization Layer of Digital Life

## At a glance

Continual agents must handle urgent interaction while retaining alternatives, replaying errors, and committing safe long-term changes. A previous digital-life framework distinguishes online (busy) and offline (idle) cha…

## Key points

- Continual agents must handle urgent interaction while retaining alternatives, replaying errors, and committing safe long-term changes.
- A previous digital-life framework distinguishes online (busy) and offline (idle) channels, but leaves open whether these are separate programs or phases of a common process and how their operations should be ordered.
- Motivated by recent observations of rapidly alternating perceptual representations in primate cortex, we develop a temporal organization layer with phase-tagged micro-epochs, an observable duty cycle, independent conten…

## Full text

Continual agents must handle urgent interaction while retaining alternatives, replaying errors, and committing safe long-term changes. A previous digital-life framework distinguishes online (busy) and offline (idle) channels, but leaves open whether these are separate programs or phases of a common process and how their operations should be ordered. Motivated by recent observations of rapidly alternating perceptual representations in primate cortex, we develop a temporal organization layer with phase-tagged micro-epochs, an observable duty cycle, independent content and resource controls, and three nested clocks separating candidate exploration from durable commitment. We give a projected duty-cycle update, state its deterministic descent guarantee and the additional noise term required for a stochastic guarantee, and specify coupled busy/idle execution contracts. Five synthetic experiments (64 seeds each) examine descent and noise, objective misalignment, gain asymmetry, resource coupling, and dropped replay logs. In the gain/noise model the best tested gain ratio is 1.55; decoupled scheduling yields 26.6% versus 11.1% success on a constructed urgent/high-load subset. A frozen-backbone Qwen3-8B prototype further checks orchestration, but its proxy outcomes are not task-benchmark evidence. The results establish a testable scheduling design and identify its conditions of validity, not machine consciousness or general-purpose agent superiority.

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