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The brain2021 → 2022
Behavior was conjectured to live in experience learned from other agents—in weights.
No oracle, illegible knowledge; Deutsch’s “millimetre” opens the criticism.The eras, by reign.
Periodized by dominant formulation. Each boundary sits where the reigning claim changed—not where a project shipped.
genealogy / ladder
A history written at its turning points.
The claim in each row held until an inside criticism narrowed, replaced, or exposed it. V1 occupies eras 02–04; V2 opens at 05.
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The gap2022 → 2026-06
Zarathustra was built across a 44-month documentary gap under the surviving maxim: “Doubt is all there is.”
Automation arrives; the question becomes who will operate the buttons.02
V1 launch: automation & aliens06-13 → 06-20
Workflow automation, not dialogue, becomes the model’s native home. The human is programmer, not sentence author.
The fleet begins driving; symbolic authoring becomes cheap enough to matter.03
V1: conjectural learning06-21 → 07-11
Program as conjecture, trace as oracle, frozen scenarios as ratchet. The paradigm receives its name.
Scenarios cannot ratchet inside a re-authorable program.04
V1: mapping07-12 → 07-21
For every behavior: find the configuration layer that actually binds. “Prose hopes; structure fires.”
The platform map is not the world map; the primitive moves toward state.05
V2 launch: state-first07-22 → 07-23
The surface becomes a program, expressed in YAML: one versioned artifact, explicit state rows, coherent laws.
State alone exposes unreadable axes and demands typed locks.06
V2: locking — LIAYN07-24 → 07-29
What is said becomes typed facts and named places. The model keeps ears and mouth; structure occupies the middle.
Locks fire, but they do not author.07
V2: stateful authoring07-30 → 08-04
“Author the STATE the engine has; never the SENTENCE the caller hears.” The cell emerges as authoring primitive.
Written cells are not proof until exercised.08
V2: cell-first08-05 → 08-12
One behavior, one card, citing its source. The live door decides what is real; the census becomes the ratchet.
Authored is not met; completion needs execution.09
V2: author-all — the calculator08-13 → 08-21
The program must be authored-all to compile. Once sealed, the engine calculates rather than improvises.
Row-only authoring fails at a repeated runtime boundary.10
V2: pass1108-22 → 08-23
Pass one of one becomes pass11; one frozen SHA is the proof boundary across rooms.
Held when every room reported zero on the frozen artifact.11
Current era08-24 → now
The estate becomes the object: quarantine, duplication mapping, genealogy, and the library studying the lab itself.
Reigning; no closing refutation recorded.genealogy/INDEX.md · quotes and dates traced there to turns, dialogues, theory, and records
genealogy / seams
The names repeat. The meanings do not.
State-first means the engine computes and versions state; stateful authoring means the human authors state instead of sentences. The V2 engine was designed inside V1 mapping, while the V2 program surface launched later.
reading caution
The ratchet has no era of its own. Six different machines carried that name from V1 conjectural learning through pass11. Follow it across time on the Thought Development shelf.