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title: The Awakening — Sufficiency Criterion
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type: reference
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tags: :passepartout:architecture:
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* The Awakening — Sufficiency Criterion
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:PROPERTIES:
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:ID: 5788ad0f-45fb-4b2d-a3ab-09a4d95f351c
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:ID: design-awakening
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:CREATED: [2026-05-08 Fri]
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:WEIGHT: 40
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:END:
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The symbolic index begins its life as a lossy construct. The initial extraction from prose — LLM proposals verified by Screamer — is built from an uncertain foundation. Some facts are correct. Some are missing. Some are wrong.
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But the symbolic engine accumulates non-lossy facts through three independent mechanisms:
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1. *Gate outcomes* — every gate rejection is a fact. No LLM involved. Accumulate at the rate of user interactions.
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2. *Screamer deductions* — new facts derived from existing facts. No LLM involved. Accumulate whenever the fact store crosses a density threshold.
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3. *Human authoring* — the human explicitly declares facts. No LLM involved.
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At some point, the non-lossy facts constitute a sufficient foundation that the symbolic engine can reverse the flow: instead of the LLM extracting facts from prose, the symbolic engine reads prose through its own lens — its now-substantial ontology of categories, rules, and constraints — and asserts facts in its own language. The extraction mechanism ceases to be probabilistic and becomes deterministic.
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The sufficiency criterion makes this operational: =(/ (count-provenance :gate-outcome :human-authored :deduced) total-facts)=. When this ratio exceeds a configurable threshold (=SUFFICIENCY_THRESHOLD=, default 0.7), the system considers its foundation sufficient. The archivist switches from "LLM proposes, Screamer verifies" to "Screamer queries existing facts, applies to the new prose, and deduces new facts directly."
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The flip is visible to the user: "Symbolic index: 847 facts (73% non-lossy, 12% LLM-proposed, 15% Wikidata). Sufficient foundation: YES."
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The flip does not mean "complete." In the broader memex, completeness is neither possible nor desirable. The awakening means "deterministic enough to be trustworthy," not "comprehensive enough to be self-sufficient." The neural index remains the gateway to the full richness of prose. The symbolic index handles what can be mechanically verified. The boundary is permanent.
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