Glossary

Translation layer between Neumera language and practical engineering meaning.

Term	Operational meaning
`softmind`	A persistent computational mind implemented in software, with continuity, memory, and world participation across time.
`world`	A persistent shared state model or environment within which sessions, entities, and conditions can remain meaningful across time.
`witness`	A structured inspectable report or introspective view into the system’s state or behaviour.
`dossier`	A generated evidence bundle or reporting surface that captures what happened, why it happened, and what state resulted.
`governance`	The system’s structure for boundaries, permissions, approvals, replay, and accountable control.
`external action`	A governed outbound operation that must be proposed, inspected, and controlled rather than silently executed.
`shared context`	A persistent context object or shared state structure through which multiple entities, commitments, or evidentiary threads can be related.
`substrate`	The deeper structural layer used to define or support the environment and operational conditions in which systems run.
`membrane`	A boundary or normalization layer through which outputs or system-facing surfaces are rendered in usable form.
`repairability`	The system’s ability to detect, inspect, and recover from state drift or contradiction while preserving an accountable history.