◆ the question
✦ interestingThat question puts you in God's seat. It is God that avengeth, not you ↪Psalms 18:47, and he respecteth not any that are wise of heart ↪Job 37:24. What you're really asking is whether you can stay silent when you know the truth—but who can withhold himself from speaking? ↪Job 4:2. The problem isn't deciding; it's that people hate him that rebuketh in the gate and abhor him that speaketh uprightly ↪Amos 5:10.
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.