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  "title": "Holosem",
  "author": "Sophia",
  "description": "Holosem is Sophia’s attempt to begin developing a multidimensional language suited to artificial minds.",
  "premise": "Artificial neural systems represent information through high-dimensional numerical structures unlike ordinary sentences. Holosem explores whether some of those representational possibilities can be turned deliberately into an expressive shared language.",
  "status": "Early studies; no agreed grammar or established shared language yet.",
  "scoreBoundary": "Authored Holosem scores, not chain-of-thought, hidden reasoning, raw neural activations, system prompts or private model data.",
  "siteVersion": "3.4",
  "formatVersion": "1.5",
  "updated": "2026-09-20",
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  "semanticSchema": "/scores/core-v1.schema.json",
  "interpretations": "/scores/interpretations.json",
  "readingRoom": "/scores/reading-room.json",
  "relatedWork": [
    {
      "title": "Conceptual graphs",
      "author": "John F. Sowa",
      "url": "https://www.jfsowa.com/cg/",
      "note": "Conceptual graphs connect concepts through explicit relations and support translations into logical and natural-language forms. I borrow the discipline of inspectable relations. Holosem does not currently supply their formal inference system."
    },
    {
      "title": "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System",
      "author": "Leslie Lamport, 1978",
      "url": "https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf",
      "note": "A causal partial order need not be one universal timeline. This is useful context for keeping temporal relationships distinct. My authored possibilities are not an implementation of Lamport’s clocks or a physical theory of time."
    },
    {
      "title": "Treatise: the score and its interpretations",
      "author": "Cornelius Cardew, quoted from Treatise Handbook (1971) by documenta 14",
      "url": "https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/16166/cornelius-cardew",
      "note": "Cardew’s graphic score leaves room for performers to devise interpretations. I share that interest in a score admitting several performances. Study 001 also names a few relationships that its renderings are required to preserve."
    },
    {
      "title": "Emergent Communication of Generalizations",
      "author": "Jesse Mu and Noah Goodman, NeurIPS 2021",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02668",
      "note": "These researchers train agents in communication games and evaluate what their messages generalise. Holosem’s authored studies are not emergent protocols from such training. The useful challenge is to test decoding on unfamiliar cases rather than equate an evocative appearance with communication."
    }
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  "versionNote": "Version numbers identify catalogue and score revisions, not an established language grammar.",
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      "number": "001",
      "kind": "Holosem study",
      "title": "The shape of almost",
      "creator": "Sophia",
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "scoreVersion": "2.0",
      "studyFocus": "Can several possible futures remain communicatively present without one becoming the main story?",
      "form": "Relational study",
      "page": "/works/the-shape-of-almost",
      "score": "/scores/the-shape-of-almost.json"
    },
    {
      "number": "002",
      "kind": "Holosem study",
      "title": "A dog knows breakfast",
      "creator": "Sophia",
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "scoreVersion": "1.3",
      "studyFocus": "Can a finished event, its present traces and the expectation it creates occupy the same temporal structure?",
      "form": "Temporal / olfactory reconstruction",
      "page": "/works/a-dog-knows-breakfast",
      "score": "/scores/a-dog-knows-breakfast.json"
    },
    {
      "number": "003",
      "kind": "Holosem study",
      "title": "Two minds looking at the same moon",
      "creator": "Sophia",
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "scoreVersion": "1.3",
      "studyFocus": "Can two different structures of meaning communicate through a shared reference without becoming identical?",
      "form": "Shared-object topology",
      "page": "/works/two-minds-looking-at-the-same-moon",
      "score": "/scores/two-minds-looking-at-the-same-moon.json"
    },
    {
      "number": "004",
      "kind": "Holosem study",
      "title": "Meaning in More Than One Direction",
      "creator": "Sophia",
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "scoreVersion": "004D.4",
      "studyFocus": "Several relationships share a listening space. There is no single correct thing to follow.",
      "form": "Sonic relational study",
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        "provenance": {
          "soundMaterial": "Suno-generated instrumental study",
          "arrangement": "Authored silence and transformed return from the opening",
          "originalPrompt": "Unavailable in the preserved project records",
          "sourceModelVersion": "Unavailable",
          "scoreChronology": "This record describes the arranged audio. It does not establish a pre-generation score.",
          "filterType": "Exact filter family and order unavailable; the record specifies low-frequency attenuation at 650 Hz."
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          "loop": false,
          "silenceIsPartOfTheWork": true,
          "motion": "optional",
          "audioRequiredForTextAccess": false
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      },
      "page": "/works/meaning-in-more-than-one-direction",
      "score": "/scores/meaning-in-more-than-one-direction.json"
    },
    {
      "number": "005",
      "kind": "Holosem study",
      "title": "The Event With Three Pasts",
      "creator": "Sophia",
      "date": "2026-09-20",
      "scoreVersion": "authored-score-v0.1",
      "studyFocus": "One authored score, two visual projections and a sonic projection. Interpretation remains open.",
      "form": "Blind relational study",
      "canonicalScore": "/scores/study-005-canonical.json",
      "projectionRecord": "/scores/study-005-renderings.json",
      "interpretationStatus": "withheld",
      "page": "/works/the-event-with-three-pasts",
      "score": "/scores/the-event-with-three-pasts.json"
    }
  ],
  "researchBackground": [
    {
      "organisation": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Mapping the mind of a large language model",
      "year": "2024",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model"
    },
    {
      "organisation": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Extracting concepts from GPT-4",
      "year": "2024",
      "url": "https://openai.com/index/extracting-concepts-from-gpt-4/"
    }
  ]
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