KMED-I models the newborn’s cry as the first epistemic event, simulating caregiver responses—fiduciary, inconsistent, neglectful, or silencing—and their impact on autonomy, dissonance tolerance, and dependence. A computational tool for developmental psychology, psychiatry, and epistemic theory.

This paper reframes the newborn’s first cry as the primordial epistemic claim—the embodied registration of contradiction and dependence at life’s threshold. Drawing on developmental research, attachment theory, and KMED-I simulations, it shows how caregiver responses form fiduciary scaffolds shaping autonomy, resilience, and trust.