Why spatial?
A filing cabinet can tell us that a record exists. A landscape can help us ask what surrounds it, what changed on the way there, which contradictions remain nearby, and which earlier experience makes it significant now.
Spatial language gives those relationships an inspectable structure. Coordinates say where; perception weighting helps explain relevance. Neither determines truth.
Relational primitives
Coordinates
Deterministic semantic addresses used to place and revisit records.
Neighborhoods
Contextual regions derived from relationships, not physical storage locations.
Relations
Typed links among observations, decisions, contradictions, and outcomes.
Contradiction pressure
A signal that evidence disagrees or remains incomplete; it does not select truth.
Lineage
The chain from source through transformations and derived state.
Movement and replay
A reproducible path through relational state and its historical versions.
Pattern and exception
Crystal candidate
A versioned, evidence-linked recurring arrangement that may support a shorter retrieval or processing route. The name fits because repeated relations settle into a reproducible structure; recurrence alone does not make it true, durable, or authorized.
Scar evidence
A preserved consequential exception linked to the pattern it interrupted. The name fits because it marks where the expected route broke and where later recall should slow down; it is evidence, not a verdict.
Original encounter
The source event remains distinct and attributable. A compact structure or candidate route does not replace the record from which it was derived.
DLI query surface
- 01Coordinate
- 02Neighborhood
- 03Relation
- 04Historical State
- 05Candidate Result
- 06Replay