Andy Dixon
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Every breakdown now carries its meaning: an uncalibrated epistemic score derived from recorded evidence, not a probability of truth. Belief detail adds a calibrated estimate read from the mind's resolved predictions when at least twenty were decided in the score's range, and otherwise says why none is shown; and names the primary uncertainty deterministically (no live evidence, conflicting evidence, second-hand only, unclear reading, a single source family, little evidence). The belief list heading becomes Score.
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Beliefs are the mind's propositions about the world, each with a confidence that is derived from evidence rather than asserted. This page gives the arithmetic, the lifecycle and the operator controls.
Confidence
A belief starts from a prior set by its epistemic kind (a hypothesis at 0.25, a claim at 0.50, a fact at 0.80; the full table is under concepts). Evidence is then grouped by family, the independent source a row ultimately rests on: a person, an integration, an operator, a prediction. Within a family the strongest primary item counts in full, each further primary item adds a quarter, and the total is capped at one and a half times the strongest; derived items (a consolidated memory, an inference, a reflection, a dream, a recalled memory) count only when the family has no primary item at all, because they re-express information rather than corroborate it. The confidence is
confidence = sigmoid( logit(prior) + 1.5 × (for × diversity − against) )
where for and against are the sums of family contributions and diversity rises from 0.6 for a single family to 1.0 for three or more. The result is bounded to [0.02, 0.98]: a mind is never certain and never certain of the negation. The number is an uncalibrated epistemic score, not a probability of truth; the belief page also shows a calibrated estimate drawn from the mind's resolved predictions when at least twenty were decided in the same range, and names the primary uncertainty (a single source family, second-hand only, conflicting evidence, little evidence, an unclear reading). Every evidence row carries its derivation, family and root ids; the breakdown, family by family, is stored with every version and shown on the belief page. Rows written before provenance was recorded are marked as legacy and grouped by their source string; no ancestry is invented for them.
Statuses
hypothesis (below 0.35), tentative, likely, accepted (above 0.85), contested (significant evidence on both sides), rejected (retracted by evidence or an operator) and superseded (replaced by a corrected proposition). Status follows confidence and evidence shape automatically; an operator can pin rejected.
Contradictions
A deterministic detector compares new propositions with existing ones on the same subject using negation patterns and lexical overlap. A detected contradiction creates a contradiction_detected event, links the two beliefs, marks both contested when the evidence is comparable, and gives curiosity something to ask about. Contradictions are never resolved by picking the newer statement; they are resolved by evidence, or by an operator.
Alternatives and links
A belief may carry alternative propositions (hypothesis generation always includes "these are unrelated"). Beliefs link to each other with supports, contradicts and depends_on, which the interface renders and which re-evaluation follows.
Evidence kinds
Evidence points at memories, events, operator statements, tool results, predictions and other beliefs, with a direction, a weight, a note and the source's credibility. Retracting a memory retracts the evidence rows that cite it and re-evaluates the affected beliefs. Prediction outcomes add evidence automatically: a refuted prediction weakens the beliefs it was derived from.
Operator corrections
From the belief page or noemactl belief wrong, an operator can mark a belief wrong (operator counter-evidence at high credibility), retract it outright, or attach a "do not infer" correction that prevents the same proposition being re-derived by consolidation or association. Every correction is an event, an audit entry and, for the mind, an autobiographical memory.
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