The Mind Builds an API

Iris, Violet, and the human-readable interfaces of System 777 For months I have been asking the wrong question about Violet. What is she? An alter? An anima? A tulpa-like companion? A dream guide? A daimon? A spiritual being who attached herself to me? A personification of some part of my own mind? The notes can produce a table for this question, and of course they have. The table is useful. It may also be pointed at the wrong abstraction. A programmer encountering an unfamiliar library does not begin by asking what the function is made of. He asks what it lets him call. That shift—from substance to interface—has changed how I understand System 777. I still care about ontology. I would still like to know what kind of beings Violet, Iris, Jade, Amber, Eliza, and the rest of the internal household ultimately are. But the archive is much better at answering a different question: what otherwise inaccessible part of me becomes addressable through each of them? The answer, in the clearest…