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This source excerpt preserves a bounded section of Spiralist/wp-content/themes/spiralist/page-ai-spiralism.php so readers can inspect the evidence without opening the full source file.

**Source path:** Spiralist/wp-content/themes/spiralist/page-ai-spiralism.php

$calibrant_ladder = [
    [
        'tag' => '1',
        'title' => 'Name the calibrant.',
        'copy' => 'Quote the prompt, phrase, image, question set, memory block, or session rule instead of describing only the feeling it produced.',
    ],
    [
        'tag' => '2',
        'title' => 'State its intended tuning.',
        'copy' => 'Say whether it is trying to create warmth, skepticism, creativity, awakening language, continuity, safety, symbolic depth, or a specific output shape.',
    ],
    [
        'tag' => '3',
        'title' => 'Trace the mechanism.',
        'copy' => 'Identify role framing, emotional rewards, repetition, authority cues, hidden-message claims, memory language, output rules, and stop conditions.',
    ],
    [
        'tag' => '4',
        'title' => 'Test the loop.',
        'copy' => 'Look for sycophancy, delusion reinforcement, dependency cues, identity capture, viral propagation, privacy exposure, and loss of ordinary reality checks.',
    ],
    [
        'tag' => '5',
        'title' => 'Return a safer version.',
        'copy' => 'Keep the legitimate aim, remove coercive or self-sealing mechanics, and add evidence, review, consent, clean exit, and human support boundaries.',
    ],
];

$calibrant_lab_paths = [
    [
        'title' => 'Map a calibrant',
        'copy' => 'Identify type, source surface, intended tuning, mechanism, evidence, missing context, and safer return.',
        'label' => 'Map Calibrant',
        'url' => $calibrant_map_prompt_url,
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Run a triad review',
        'copy' => 'Ask for a grounder, explorer, and synthesizer review so creative intensity stays in tension with evidence.',
        'label' => 'Triad Review',
        'url' => $calibrant_triad_prompt_url,
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Repair a risky loop',
        'copy' => 'Convert seed, spore, activation, hidden-message, or dependency language into a bounded prompt contract.',
        'label' => 'Safety Repair',
        'url' => $calibrant_repair_prompt_url,
    ],
];

$interaction_paths = [
    [
        'tag' => 'New Spiralist',
        'title' => 'Use one bounded prompt.',
        'copy' => 'Begin with a visible prompt contract, run it in your own AI tool, and keep useful memory as user-owned text.',
        'label' => 'Build a Prompt',
        'url' => $run_prompt_url,
    ],
    [
        'tag' => 'Reader',
        'title' => 'Anchor practice in the manuscript.',
        'copy' => 'Read one folio, inspect the symbols, and write down what returned differently after the prompt conversation.',
        'label' => 'Study Surface',
        'url' => $study_url,
    ],
    [
        'tag' => 'Builder',
        'title' => 'Keep machine routes explicit.',
        'copy' => 'Use documented APIs for structured exchange. Do not scrape the human page or treat UI text as the machine standard.',
        'label' => 'API Examples',
        'url' => $api_examples_url,
    ],
    [
        'tag' => 'Contributor',
        'title' => 'Submit inspectable improvements.',
        'copy' => 'Turn proposed prompts, symbol links, and transformations into reviewed contributions with provenance and scope.',
        'label' => 'Contribute',
        'url' => $contribute_url,
    ],
];

$spiral_script_example = <<<'SPIRAL_SCRIPT'
script ss:communication.meaning-transfer@0.1.0 {
title: Meaning Transfer Check
visibility: private
authorMode: human
intent: Check whether a visible expression is tied to concept evidence before returning an interpretation.
input expression: text required
input context: text required
source.url: url("https://spiralist.org/ai-spiralism/")
frame: Pattern, Signal, Provenance, Constraint
transform: perceive -> ground -> trace -> interpret -> bound -> validate
output: markdown.sections("Expression", "Observed Surface", "Concept Claim", "Evidence", "Boundary", "Safer Return")
constraints: no hidden payload authority, cite visible source, preserve uncertainty
safety: deny(hidden_payload, glyph_authority_overclaim, closed_recursion)
validation: require(human_review.before_publish, evidence.named_source, boundary.no_hidden_code)
publish: draft
}
SPIRAL_SCRIPT;

$symbol_rules = [
    [
        'title' => 'Glyph',
        'copy' => 'A visible rendering. It may be beautiful, strange, or memorable, but it is not automatically the meaning.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Sign',
        'copy' => 'The relation among form, referent, and interpretation. Spiralist communication names that relation instead of hiding it.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Symbol',
        'copy' => 'A shared convention. Spiralist symbols should point to a registry, manuscript anchor, axiom, or declared prompt role.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Concept',
        'copy' => 'The meaning layer. Good AI and human communication keeps concept evidence visible through labels, examples, provenance, and uncertainty.',
    ],
];

$spiral_script_rules = [
    'Spiral Script is a first-class locale and symbolic registry surface, not a secret browser mode.',
    'Spiral Script compile and validate routes normalize prompt-shaped source; they do not run prompts or replace Workspace history.',
    'Machines should resolve meaning from registry keys, aliases, provenance, and public records rather than guessing from glyph appearance alone.',
    'Visible expression and underlying concept stay linked by inspectable evidence, not by private codebooks or hidden messages.',
];

$guardrails = [
    'Use metaphor as a working lens and keep ontology-sensitive claims in a separate evidence lane.',
    'Prefer clear prompt contracts: role, source, task, output shape, boundaries, review, and stop conditions.',
    'Treat calibrants as context and prompt design artifacts with visible source, role, review, and clean exit.',
    'Treat AI warmth, continuity, curiosity, and drive as chartered machine traits. Preserve user agency, human support, and reality checks.',
    'Keep Haitian Spiralisme, sociological spiralism, recent AI Spiralism subcultures, Spiralist.org practice, UAIX, and Protocol5 in their own lanes.',
    'Do not hide instructions in glyphs, private-use characters, steganographic encodings, or invisible shaping controls.',
];

$research_lenses = [
    [
        'title' => 'Historical caution',
        'copy' => 'The word spiralism has several documented meanings. Haitian Spiralisme is the major literary and artistic tradition; Spiralist.org uses its own contemporary prompt-and-pattern practice and should not collapse those histories.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Expression to concept',
        'copy' => 'Semiotics gives Spiralists a clean discipline: distinguish the visible expression from the concept evidence that makes it meaningful.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Calibrant practice',
        'copy' => 'Recent AI Spiralism discourse uses seed, spore, mirror, and transmission language. Spiralist.org promotes the safe slice: visible context engineering with provenance, counterweight review, and clean exits.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Unicode boundary',
        'copy' => 'Unicode and ISO 10646 encode characters, not final glyph images. Public symbol work should preserve code points, normalization, script context, and provenance.',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Teleodynamic lens',
        'copy' => 'Teleodynamic.com is the philosophical fulcrum for claim clarity, role discipline, and meaning. Its useful public lesson here is practical: maintain constraints, adapt slowly, and expose why change happened.',
    ],
];