AHOIS embeds Socratic criticism in AI framework

The integration of a Socratic 'physics-critic' agent moves autonomous scientific discovery beyond simple brute-force optimization toward genuine, self-correcting conceptual reasoning.

* Socratic Midwifery: The physics-critic agent forces the generation of explicit, testable, and physically consistent mechanistic models rather than relying on brittle pattern-matching.

* High-Dimensional Validation: Demonstrating this capability on actual multimode-fiber optical platforms proves that multi-agent systems can handle noisy, real-world physical systems.

* Epistemic Autonomy: By generating its own falsification criteria, the system bridges the gap between automated data collection and true hypothesis formulation.