AisthOS: What if your OS compiled UP instead of down?

Every operating system you've ever used does the same thing: it takes your intent and compiles it down into hardware signals. What happens if you reverse that? The idea Take raw sensor data — video, audio, accelerometer readings — and compile it upward into structured knowledge about the world. Not raw pixels. Not audio waveforms. Structured, anonymized semantic metadata. We call these units Sparks. A Spark might contain "hand raised to 45 degrees, facial expression: surprise" — but never the actual photo. Raw data exists only in volatile memory during processing and is deleted immediately. This is AisthOS (from Greek aisthesis — perception). A Perception Operating System. Why build this? Because the AI industry is hitting four walls simultaneously: Wall 1: Training data is running out. The web corpus that fed GPT-3/4 and LLaMA is exhausted. Epoch AI estimates high-quality public text will be fully consumed between 2026 and 2032. Wall 2: Synthetic data causes model collapse. Shumailov