🕸️ EPH-MCP: Emergent Pattern Hunter

A revolutionary thinking architecture for LLMs via MCP (Model Context Protocol)

EPH-MCP transforms how AI systems reason by simulating the emergence of insights from interacting thought fragments, similar to how patterns arise in complex physical systems.

Key Features

• Bottom-up Insight Emergence: Instead of forcing conclusions, the insights just show up once all the pieces bounce around enough.
• Quantum-like Thought Dynamics: Ideas overlap, collide, and stick together—sometimes they’re in two states at once until the picture clears.
• Multi-scale Pattern Detection: We can spot the small stuff and the big picture at the same time—like zooming from street level to skyline.
• Contradiction as Feature: Tension isn’t a bug, it’s fuel. Conflicts push the thinking somewhere new.
• Field-based Reasoning: Everything plays out in this high-dimensional “idea space,” where concepts pull, push, and interact like a living grid.

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/eph-mcp.git
cd eph-mcp

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

# Quick test
python quickstart.py

Basic Usage

Start MCP Server

python -m eph_mcp.server

The server will start on localhost:3333 by default.

How It Works

EPH uses a 5-phase process:

Phase 1: Thought Explosion

First we blow up the question into a bunch of little sparks—50 to 150 fragments, each one a different angle or half-formed idea.
We mix in every trick we’ve got: free association, “what if” games, parallel universes, quantum superposition vibes.
Each fragment lands in some wild high-dimensional space, like confetti drifting around a cosmic dance floor.

Phase 2: Interaction Dynamics

Now those fragments start bumping into each other like charged particles.

• Similar ones pull together.
• Opposites push apart.
• Some bind tightly, others spin off.

It’s basically like running a mini-universe simulation where ideas collide until the system chills into something stable (simulated annealing).

Phase 3: Pattern Detection

From the chaos, we spot emergent shapes—like finding constellations in the stars:

• Crystalline lattices → clean, regular structures
• Strange attractors → looping chaos
• Phase transitions → that “sudden click” when ideas reorganize
• Soliton waves → insights that keep traveling without losing shape
• …plus more funky forms

Phase 4: Pattern Crystallization

Here, the raw patterns solidify into actual insights.
We check each one for:

• Confidence (does it hold up?)
• Novelty (is it fresh?)
• Clarity (can you actually explain it to a friend?)

We don’t force everything to agree—contradictions are saved too, like tension in a good story.

Phase 5: Pattern Weaving

Finally, we stitch the insights together into something you can actually use.
Different ways to weave:

• Convergent synthesis → pull it all into one neat answer
• Dialectical → thesis + antithesis → synthesis
• Narrative threading → tell it like a story, connecting the dots naturally

📊 Configuration

Create a config.json file to customize behavior:

{
  "explosion": {
    "n_fragments": 100,
    "temperature": 1.5,
    "embedding_model": "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
  },
  "interaction": {
    "iterations": 150,
    "initial_temperature": 1.0,
    "cooling_rate": 0.995
  },
  "detection": {
    "min_pattern_size": 3,
    "pattern_threshold": 0.5
  },
  "crystallization": {
    "confidence_threshold": 0.5,
    "novelty_threshold": 0.3
  },
  "weaving": {
    "max_insights": 5,
    "coherence_threshold": 0.6
  }
}

🛠️ MCP Tools

The server exposes 4 main tools via MCP:

think_emergently

Main reasoning tool - applies full EPH process

{
  "query": "Your question here",
  "return_intermediate": false,
  "visualize": true
}

analyze_patterns

Analyze text for emergent patterns without full reasoning

{
  "text": "Text to analyze",
  "pattern_types": ["contradiction", "harmony"],
  "min_confidence": 0.5
}

compare_thoughts

Compare multiple ideas for relationships

{
  "thoughts": ["idea 1", "idea 2", "idea 3"],
  "find_contradictions": true,
  "find_harmonies": true
}

reasoning_history

Access and analyze past reasoning sessions

{
  "last_n": 5,
  "analyze": true
}

Enable with visualization.enabled: true in config.

Testing

Run the test suite:

# Basic tests
python tests/test_basic.py

# Full test suite (if available)
pytest tests/

📚 Examples

Explore different reasoning scenarios:

python examples/usage_examples.py

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Areas of interest:

• New generation strategies for thought explosion
• Alternative pattern detection algorithms
• Visualization improvements
• Performance optimization
• Integration with other MCP tools

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by physics and emergent systems

"In the dance of fragments, meaning emerges" - EPH Philosophy