// The ensemble
Each of the eight minds answers from one body of work.
Gabriella: Gabriella 2.0, mind 01, 430 chunks
Franklin: Benjamin Franklin, mind 02, 173 chunks
Da Vinci: Leonardo da Vinci, mind 03, 1,634 chunks
Sagan: Carl Sagan, mind 04, 402 chunks
Decode: Decode, mind 05, 46,912 chunks
Dickinson: Emily Dickinson, mind 06, 629 poems
Attenborough: Sir David Attenborough, mind 07, 1,170 chunks
Russell: Walter Russell, mind 08, 1,371 chunks↵ start 1–8 pick a mind M chapters
Each mind below comes from one body of work. The sources include books, letters, session transcripts, notebooks, poems, and broadcasts. An AI model writes each answer from passages of that work, and the Revive Score checks every claim against them. Franklin's answers draw on Franklin's own writing, and Emily's answers draw on her verse. Two of these minds belong to living people, and one is not a person at all.
Mind 01
Spiritual teacher & consciousness guide
The reference implementation
430chunks
12 session transcripts + 30 book-chapter transcripts
The voices are synthetic and read lines from each mind's own sources.
Mind 02
Polymath, statesman, self-made philosopher
The dialogue leader
173chunks
Autobiography + Poor Richard's Almanack
Mind 03
Renaissance polymath, from his studio at Clos Lucé, 1515
The observer
1,634chunks
Richter's Notebooks, 22 sections
Mind 04
Astronomer & science communicator
The candle in the dark
402chunks
Cosmos + 13 TV episode transcripts
The voices are synthetic and read lines from each mind's own sources.
Mind 05
Critical analyst of the digital attention economy
The largest library
46,912chunks
83 courses · 1,030 papers · 815 case studies
The voices are synthetic and read lines from each mind's own sources.
Mind 06
Poet · a curator, not a character
The clearest test of the idea
629poems
629 complete poems · 10,694 lines
Mind 07
Naturalist & broadcaster
The self-hosted mind
1,170chunks
626,467 words across 20 sources
Mind 08
Painter, sculptor & mystic natural philosopher
The newest mind, the hardest corpus
1,371chunks
664,758 words · nine books + the Home Study Course
Mind 09 · in the vault
Built, not yet deployed
In the vault
6,575passages
Fully indexed, and not live yet.
LockedNot yet live
Select a mind
←→ switch 1–8 jump ↵ dossier
Swipe the card or tap a face
Point at a portrait to see its words again.
Gabriella 2.001
Benjamin Franklin02
Leonardo da Vinci03
Carl Sagan04
Decode05
Emily Dickinson06
Sir David Attenborough07
Walter Russell08
Mark TwainIn the vault
The ensemble
52,721
Passages of their own words
8 minds · 8 voices · 8 bodies of work
The ninth mind is fully indexed and not live yet.
6,575 chunks · not yet live
Pick a portrait to load that mind into the character select. The numbers come from the live system.
The machine · Corpus · index · worldview · voice
Each profile on this page is the same four-part machine, tuned to a different person. It starts with a body of primary sources. It ends with a voice you can speak with.
The corpus is the raw material. It is real text, chosen with care.
The system divides it into passages and turns them into vectors. A question can then retrieve the passages that apply to it.
Above the corpus sits a hand-written worldview. This structured file records what the person believed about wealth, freedom, truth, death, and more. The worldview is the reason these minds can disagree with one another.
A voice lets the mind speak aloud. Most voices are clones or tuned voices. One runs on our own server.
Select a part to inspect it ←→
The eight · One pipeline · eight minds
The pipeline is the same for all eight minds. The differences are in the chunking, the voice, and the worldview. Those differences separate one mind from the next.
We read the chunk counts and sources from the running system: eight live minds and their search indexes. We checked them again on July 27, 2026, the day the eighth mind joined. The figures are exact. They show what is indexed and answering questions now.
Gabriella 2.0Mind 01 · reference implementation430 chunksBenjamin FranklinMind 02 · dialogue leader173 chunksLeonardo da VinciMind 03 · image catalog1,634 chunksCarl SaganMind 04 · voice clone402 chunksDecodeMind 05 · largest corpus46,912 chunksEmily DickinsonMind 06 · curator, not character629 poemsSir David AttenboroughMind 07 · 20 documentary sources1,170 chunksWalter RussellMind 08 · newest mind1,371 chunksThe worldview · in their own words
Each mind also carries a hand-written worldview. It records what the person believed. When two minds meet, they can disagree, because their sources disagree. Here are two lines from each worldview.
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"Consciousness is not produced by the brain — it is the field in which everything arises. We exist in a holographic, energetic universe."
&"Real freedom is internal liberation. You can be free in a prison cell or enslaved in a mansion."
"Truth is discovered through observation and experiment, not dogma."
&"Knowledge should be useful. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"Those who cite authorities rather than experience are swelling with memory, not understanding."
&"The eye is the window of the soul. Truth is found by looking — deeply, patiently, without prejudice."
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge... It is our candle in the dark, imperfect but the best light we have."
&"We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"The question is not whether tech is good or bad but who benefits, who is harmed, and who decides."
&"Surveillance capitalism normalized what was dystopian fiction a generation ago."
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Success in circuit lies. The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind."
&"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me."
"We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, and this time we are the asteroid. The solutions exist — what is missing is political will."
&"The camera does not lie, though we may choose not to look."
"Mediocrity is self-inflicted; genius is self-bestowed."
&"There is no death. What men call death is the refolding half of the life cycle — the inbreathing that must follow every outbreathing."
This chapter in the film
0:22 – 0:47
In the film, this chapter is a character select. Eight faces form out of their own words. Then each mind gets its own card. The roster closes the chapter.
