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.

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.