diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b5d69e7..6b5c3fc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -43,5 +43,6 @@ No runtime language has been selected yet. The first committed artifact is the persistent state spine: map, scratch, schemas, docs, and examples. The engine implementation should be chosen after the pipeline and data ownership are clear. -[Rust to Dust](./settings/rust-to-dust/README.md) is the first proving ground, -not engine doctrine. +[Eusocial Interbeing / Zyphos](./settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md) is the +current higher-priority setting target. [Rust to Dust](./settings/rust-to-dust/README.md) +is preserved as an earlier proving ground, not engine doctrine. diff --git a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md index 270909b..63a61e5 100644 --- a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md +++ b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -# Eusocial Interbeing Naming Surface +# Eusocial Interbeing / Zyphos + +Eusocial Interbeing is the current higher-priority setting target for Weksa. +Zyphos is the world that needs names and language surfaces earned from inside +its inhabitants' ontologies. This setting surface connects Weksa to the Eusocial Interbeing vault at -`E:\Projects\Eusocial Interbeing`. Its purpose is eventual naming support for -objects, species, places, institutions, ecological contracts, and technologies in +`E:\Projects\Eusocial Interbeing`. Its purpose is naming support for objects, +species, places, institutions, ecological contracts, and technologies in languages spoken by the setting's inhabitants. Weksa should not mint durable names by translating English labels. It should @@ -20,6 +24,26 @@ register, and history. breeding-ground registers, and ecological-partner contact systems should not collapse into one universal naming soup. +## Current Setting Baseline + +Zyphos is one planet in a close terrestrial binary. Its slightly smaller twin, +Umbros, hangs as a fixed sky presence. The primary star is dim, the habitable +zone is close, and light is scarce enough to shape biology and society. + +Zyphos life is founded on mutable memory endosymbiosis. Every cell carries a +memory-bearing symbiont. Sentience gradients across cells, tissues, organisms, +colonies, routes, forests, reefs, and landscapes. + +The immediate language-design pressure comes from two major civilizational +surfaces: + +- Airawa continent: mother-tree memory networks, archival dependency, + disconnected networks, and the Airawa Empire's biological-memetic + infrastructure. +- Sa'auei'a continent: advanced nomadic civilization, family-unit political + movement, sacred breeding-ground commons, remembered routes, and reciprocal + ecological relationships. + ## Naming Rule Names should come after meaning decomposition. @@ -58,3 +82,6 @@ Until a real language-project state format exists, accepted naming work should be recorded as explicit design notes here and referenced from the Eusocial vault. Scratch names may appear in working notes, but they are not canon until a language project can explain the ontology and form. + +See [Language Design Pressure](./language-design.md) for the first Weksa-facing +ontology map. diff --git a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa280d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +# Zyphos Language Design Pressure + +Zyphos pressures Weksa toward languages where memory, ecology, reproduction, +movement, and negotiated boundary are not background. They are the political +substrate. + +The design target is not alien flavor pasted onto Earth institutions. Every +major linguistic distinction should be tested against the setting rule: + +> Does this institution or name reveal an ecological deal, reproductive pressure, +> memory technology, or path-dependent consequence? + +## Ontology Pillars + +- mutable memory endosymbiosis +- sentience across scale +- ecology as infrastructure +- memory as obligation, leverage, and negotiated access +- organisms, routes, forests, reefs, and landscapes as possible political actors +- boundary permeability as foreign policy +- reproductive sites as commons or strategic terrain +- path dependency as a civilizational constraint +- disconnection as survival, refusal, or wound + +## Airawa Pressures + +Airawa language work must account for: + +- mother-tree mediated communal memory +- archival dependency +- ritual labor and nutrient obligation +- imperial biological-memetic infrastructure +- caste and eugenic pressure +- disconnected tree networks that survived by severing themselves from saturated + substrate +- imperial labels versus native nation-scale interbeing names + +The Airawa Empire should not be named like a normal state with wet nouns glued +on. It is an artificial quarter-continent clausiform exception imposed through +biological-memetic control. + +## Sa'auei'a Pressures + +Sa'auei'a language work must account for: + +- advanced nomadic civilization without permanent urban dominance +- squad-sized family units +- sacred communal breeding grounds +- remembered routes +- portable institutions +- ecological reputation +- reciprocity routes and seasonal corridors +- camps, commons, and partner sites as distinct name targets + +The Sa'auei'a continent should not read as empty wilderness. Its language should +have ways to name civilization that moves, recurs, bargains, and is remembered by +ecology. + +## Naming Brief Shape + +A Weksa naming brief should capture at least: + +```yaml +target: + kind: + canon_source: + provisional_english_handle: +namer: + language_project: + register: + relationship_to_target: +ontology: + salient_memory_relation: + salient_ecological_contract: + boundary_status: + reproductive_or_route_pressure: +form: + expected_morphology: + phonological_notes: + diachronic_notes: +outputs: + endonym: + exonym: + gloss: + trace: +``` + +The brief comes before the name. The name is the receipt, not the thought. + diff --git a/state/map.yaml b/state/map.yaml index 42ca815..45f480a 100644 --- a/state/map.yaml +++ b/state/map.yaml @@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ objective: Create a durable workspace where Weksa can develop from a persistent map before runtime architecture decisions are made. current: > - Establish the language-neutral state spine ported from the EpiphanyAgent - pattern: canonical map, scratch surface, schema receipts, and pipeline - documentation. + Reorient the first active language-design target toward Zyphos / Eusocial + Interbeing while preserving Weksa's language-neutral engine boundaries. constraints: - Runtime implementation language is undecided. @@ -27,6 +26,8 @@ constraints: live LLM calls. - Setting-specific projects may pressure the engine, but their ontology must not become generic Weksa doctrine. + - Zyphos / Eusocial Interbeing canon belongs to the Eusocial Interbeing vault; + Weksa should consume it through explicit naming and language-design briefs. - Explicit project state must distinguish durable decisions from scratch. - Avoid direct English-to-alien word replacement as the core design. @@ -136,7 +137,9 @@ accepted_design: renderer pipeline. - Weksa is the engine. A language project owns one constructed language. Setting docs own story, species, culture, and use cases. - - Rust to Dust is the first proving ground, not engine doctrine. + - Rust to Dust is an earlier proving ground, not engine doctrine. + - Zyphos / Eusocial Interbeing is now the higher-priority setting target for + Weksa naming and language-design work. - Time-sensitive runtime paths should be deterministic and LLM-free. Model-assisted decomposition, generation, and critique belong in authoring or offline workflows. @@ -162,6 +165,10 @@ open_questions: - What minimal Eusocial Interbeing language-project slice can prove naming for Airawa, Sa'auei'a, ecological partner, and imperial registers without collapsing them into one universal language? + - Which Zyphos language project should be first: Airawa, imperial Airawa, + Sa'auei'a, or a narrow naming-brief interlingua? + - What Weksa naming brief schema best serves nation-scale interbeings, + ecological memory networks, and mobile family-unit civilizations? landed_baseline: - Language-neutral state spine. @@ -170,3 +177,4 @@ landed_baseline: - Schema receipt docs. - Rust to Dust setting documentation skeleton. - Eusocial Interbeing naming surface at settings/eusocial-interbeing. + - Zyphos language-design pressure note.