Symbol scan description

Another thing I’ve been working on, sometimes in Muse, sometimes in ChatGPT – though the more developed implementation lives in Muse – is something I call SYMBOL SCAN. Muse’s on-demand explanation of what the hell we’ve been working on with this is: The Symbol Scan: An Explainer The symbol scan reads through the LORE books — 136 of them — and pulls out the things that matter: the people, places, objects, groups, and ideas that keep showing up. Each book is first converted from its EPUB file into plain text, and the scan works from that text so every finding can be traced back to an exact passage. When the scan spots something worth tracking, it proposes it as a candidate: a name, where in the book it appears, and a direct quote showing it in context. Candidates don’t go into the registry on their own. They land on an approval sheet — a simple checklist — where each one is reviewed and either ticked or skipped. Ticked candidates become approved units. From there, the system looks at…