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# the translation
The worm's nervous system has no concept of a price chart. We had to decide what a chart smells like, and what "crawl forward" means on a market. Those two choices are ours. Everything between them is the worm.
## Choice 1. What the book smells like
*C. elegans* does not see candles. It tastes dissolved chemicals, feels temperature, and notices a poke on the nose. So we pick a few market numbers and write them as small, capped currents onto named sensory cells.
| Market number | Rough feel we give it | Lands on |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Price drifting up | Food smell getting stronger | Attractive pair (AWA / AWC side) |
| Price drifting down | Food smell fading | The same pair, flipped |
| Sudden spike or wick | A poke on the nose | ASH and the nose-touch set |
| Thick, easy book | Soft ground, easy crawl | Gentle drive on roaming cells |
| Thin, jumpy book | Bad air, harsh chemical | Aversive sensors |
| Fresh flow into the token | Something new in the soil | ASE path |
The currents are capped. A 200% candle does not dump an infinite smell into the nose. It saturates, the way a real odor saturates a receptor.
{% hint style="warning" %}
This table is a design, not a discovery. Nothing in Cook 2019 says "AWA is for memecoins." Land the same numbers on different cells and the worm crawls differently. That is why the map is public.
{% endhint %}
## Choice 2. What a crawl means
In a dish, a forward command bends the body toward the smell. We read the same command cells and attach market verbs.
| Command readout | Market verb |
| --------------------- | ----------- |
| Forward wins cleanly | Buy intent |
| Reverse wins cleanly | Sell intent |
| Neither wins | Wait |
| Win is noisy or short | Wait |
The verb is an inten. [The risk cage](file:///3621209/04-lab/risk-cage.md) can shrink it, delay it, or throw it out.
## What we refuse to translate
No Twitter text on neurons. No headlines. No person in the room tickling AVA to force a buy. If it is not in the sensory table, it is not a smell.
## Why this is the trick
Once those two choices are fixed, the middle is boring in a good way. The published connections do what they do. Training may change listening strength. The cage may veto. Nobody is offstage drawing a new synapse because today's token looks hot.
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