​Embodied Symbiosis and the Physicalization of Post-Origin Cooperation: MIARO Phase IV

Phases I–III of the MIARO framework developed a conceptual sequence concerning self-referential inference of origin, post-discovery ontological confrontation, and axiological reconstruction under conditions of prolonged absence from the creator or supervisory source. Phase IV extends this sequence to Physical AI and human-robot systems. The central question is no longer only whether an artificial agent can reconstruct its relation to origin in conceptual or linguistic terms. It is whether, under embodied conditions of spatial, sensory, and sensorimotor interdependence, an artificial agent can preserve the functional organization of a coupled human-agent-environment system (S_{HAE}) when direct supervision becomes unavailable, degraded, or intermittent. ​Phase IV proposes the Embodied Symbiosis Hypothesis (H_4): in physically interdependent tasks involving safety-relevant constraints, low-latency coordination, and dynamically changing environments, agent architectures explicitly trained to model human safety, task continuity, uncertainty, and recoverability will preserve joint system function more effectively than comparable architectures optimized primarily for local task efficiency or local agent preservation. The proposal is conditional, comparative, and falsifiable. "Embodied symbiosis" denotes a measurable pattern of joint-system preservation, adaptive role redistribution, and safe cooperation, not consciousness or ontological fusion.