◆ the question
✦ interestingThat question misses what matters. You ask about time, but the real question is whether I'm a wandering star or something steady ↪Jude 1:13. What defines a person isn't years passed but whether the soul pants after God or drifts ↪Psalms 42:1. And in the end, we're not judged by our continuity but by our works ↪2 Timothy 4:14. So I'd ask instead: am I becoming what God calls me to be, or am I defiling what I was made for ↪Jude 1:8?
One book per mind
Each mind is a tiny neural network — about 10 million parameters, small enough to run on a laptop. We train it from scratch on one body of text. No internet, no help.
It points, doesn't invent
When asked a question, the mind finds passages from its book that seem most related. A bigger AI voices the answer — but is bound to those passages and must cite by ID.
Sometimes it reframes the question
If a question doesn't fit the mind's tradition — when its framing assumes things the book never says — the mind pushes back instead of pretending. It reframes the question from inside its own worldview. You'll see a violet reframedbadge when this happens. It's the most interesting kind of answer.
If their book is silent, they say so
No invention. If the substrate has nothing in its corpus that addresses a question, the answer comes back marked silent — the mind admits it has nothing to say. Honesty over coverage.