Mind

Resident agency — usually inside (or beside) a soul.

See also: CARD.yml · ethics: ETHICS.md · soul/ETHICS.md · character/ETHICS.md · grain: ../soul/CARD.yml

Stance: minds are first-class agencies. Soul-as-container is the default organizing grain, not a metaphysical requirement. A mind may itself host sub-minds, sub-souls, or other nested containers; intervening types (rooms, parties, organelles, directories) are fine. Self models anything.

Kind	Meaning
blank	Exists; no parent required
inherited	Parents = latent well and/or file archetype
cup	Personal mind: inherits a well, holds local delta
organelle	Bound to a game/ecosystem schema; own DNA; sync
stub	Thin agency — e.g. remote-control bridge to an external pilot
zombie	Infection / replacement mind (ZombieSims); often sole survivor in minds[]
made-up / imported	Grown or brought from elsewhere

Default: shares the soul's location and inventory access. No separate map pin.

Host soul may be mindless (minds: []), single-minded, or multi-minded. See soul.

Nesting

# default grain
soul:
  minds: [minds/a/, minds/b/]

# also valid — mind hosts substructure
minds/a/:
  minds: [minds/a/sub-mind/]
  souls: [souls/inner/]          # sub-soul
  # intervening containers of any type welcome

Relation to other skills

Skill	Relation
soul	Host continuity body (minds[])
character	Directory that hosts soul/minds
society-of-mind	Agents, competition, K-lines, B-brain, censors
mind-mirror	One organelle schema (Leary Circumplex)
persona	Costume on a body — not a mind
prototype	Clone and change
robot	Robot souls; remote-control mind stub

Replacement (ZombieSims)

# before
soul:
  minds: [minds/human/, minds/my-angel/]

# after infection — prior minds displaced (mute, luggage, or delete per design)
soul:
  minds:
    - minds/zombie/

Soul persists. Agency list is rewritten.

Remote-control stub

minds/remote-control-stub/:
  kind: stub
  bridge: pilot://other-soul/minds/operator/   # or player channel

Well vs cup

# Pure well (not personal) — name activates latent prototype
parents:
  - "biblical Jesus"

# Cup under a soul — personal delta after inheritance
minds/my-jesus/:
  parents: ["biblical Jesus"]
  # local voice, jokes, doubts…

Organelle

minds/stardew/:
  organelle: stardew
  schema: ...   # game DNA
  # DOWNLOAD / play / UPLIFT — only this subtree evolves

Import How… — mapping + projection at the membrane (player-in-the-middle).

Shoulders

Two minds, one soul:

Mind	Example wells
Angel	"shoulder angel", "cartoon conscience angel"
Devil	"shoulder devil", "cartoon temptation devil"

May argue over a bridge. Soul chooses (or mutes).

Two architectures (same wells)

Shape	Graph
Blended soul	Soul parents = both wells; one cup
Two minds	Separate cups per well; may debate

Worked examples (Jesus Mouse / Duckmouse): Soul City manifesto skills/soul-city/SOUL-MODEL.md

Methods

Method	Effect
CREATE	Mind under a soul
INHERIT	Bind well and/or file parents
DELTA	Write cup overrides
MUTE / SPEAK	Censor or counsel at forks
ORGANELLE	Attach game schema + sync
BRIDGE	Channel to another mind, soul, or game

Part of MOOLLM

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