Object-Centric Adaptive Reasoning: ASRA Phase 2 — From Pixel Transitions to Symbolic Structure
Phase 1 established interactive intelligence from transition evidence alone; Phase 2 adds the Observation Engine—segmentation, object alignment, transform events, and rule candidates over ARC demonstration pairs, with compact object-scene hints feeding back into the interactive agent. This article presents the theory, architecture, and design principles for object-centric structure between Phase 1 logging and later memory, causality, and planning.