neural — reference
the reference layer for neural, the semantic language of soft3. these specs are the law: the primitives, their data, their semantics. the conceptual treatment is in explanation/; the vision in README.
the ladder
neural builds meaning from the sigil up — the densest operator, then the word it names, then structure to convention, then the lexicon it reads back:
| primitive | role | home |
|---|---|---|
| sigil | base operator — point and act; the densest unit | sigils.md |
| word | the unit of meaning — a typed particle | word.md |
| link | the atom relation — word → word | cybergraph (referenced) |
| sentence | linear — a chain of links in one signal | sentence.md |
| motif | non-linear — a recurring subgraph shape | motif.md |
| dialect | convention — an agreed collection of sentences and motifs | dialect.md |
| lexicon | the living vocabulary — top words by φ* | lexicon.md |
the wire format that carries them: wire.md. the surface that speaks them: cli.md (neu).
cross-cutting law
- a word is the unit of meaning — a typed particle; a bare particle is a content node, a word carries a type and a name. the lexicon holds the words in use (top by φ*).
- the atom relation is the link — a staked assertion binding two words,
from → to. neural is the language of links; link is the graph's unit of knowledge. - the cybergraph bundles all the links on a pair into an axon — itself a particle (axiom A6), the grain the tri-kernel flows along. a link (the assertion) and an axon (the bundle) are the graph's two readings of an edge; both live in cybergraph, neural references them.
- neural reads meaning; it does not compute it. φ* — the focus distribution that ranks every particle and axon — is computed by tru (the tri-kernel fixed point) and settled by zheng. neural consumes φ*; it never runs the kernel.
- a sigil is neural's base operator and its densest unit — point and act. like the in English (the most frequent word), the sigils carry structure over content; you can express almost anything with the alphabet alone. it lives in the neural sigils (sigils.md), folded in from the address language; every link is two sigils joined.
- a signal is the unit of submission: one atomic batch of links.
- one operator, one ladder: the tri-kernel is the graph Laplacian and its heat kernel (diffusion / springs / heat = the heat exponential / the spectral embedding / the scale τ), promoted from link to axon to motif along the simplicial ladder and interpreted by a dialect (a functor). φ*, the lexicon, dialect discovery, and the tension that marks polysemy are readings of one eigenproblem. a staked link is an optic, so reward composes along sentences and motifs. see frontier.