Method · How a Sapphon Dossier Is Scored

What Dave built (verbatim)

LIT Dave (t253): "should model patricia off my best knowledge of my brain. {{ {i} = 11 :: 1 = {i} , [ 5 = ethics , 4= logic , 3 = pathos , 2 = mythos , 1 = {i} ][ -6 = touch{balance,cordination} , -5 = hearing{balance,ground} , -4 = taste{life,death} , -3 = sound{act/react} , -2 = hearing{pause,choice} , -1 = inner dimension{self,confidence,reality} +1 = super id { connection}} add these with 3 depths each, probably not great for video games but you can try, have a radi for {i} {id} and {sid} please"

LIT Dave (t248): "i love it but there need to be 3 sappons togeterh , do 1 red, what happens to patricia and how remember it, blue, how you respond to what happens. and green , was it successfuel. so have one sapphone radi with 4 sapphones in it and then the jit engines running cocurrently together"

LIT Dave (t231): "{{ ls :: patricia :: learns,reacts :: centers :: toph :: centers,observes :: rs :: probes,warily}}"

LIT Dave (t251): "make it 3 on the rose sapphon. should be .3 seconds observation , .2 seconds response to observation .1 always active watchin .3.2 , call that the sub id"

MODEL In PATRICIA these drive a boxer: layers read game signals, RED/BLUE/GREEN are the event, response and verdict lanes, the three streams vote, the rose triad sets the reaction tempo, and the radials turn ±1° per outcome. Here the same parts read a life instead of a fight.

MODEL The 12 layers for a person

Dave's numbers and labels are kept exactly as he gave them, including {i} = 11 :: 1 = {i} and his spelling. The readings are my mapping (MODEL).

MODEL Each person gets a hand-set base score 0–10 per layer from the documented record (my judgement). The three depths follow PATRICIA's now / this session / long memory:

• depth 1 · in their moment = base
• depth 2 · across their life = (2·base + BLUE) / 3
• depth 3 · long memory = (base + GREEN) / 2
• layer score = mean of the three depths

MODEL Lanes, streams, tempo, radials, index

• RED: what happened to them and how they are remembered. BLUE: how they responded. GREEN: was it successful (legacy). Each is hand-set 0–10 with a one-line rationale on every card.
• Streams as a style profile: ls :: patricia :: learns,reacts = mean(4 logic, −3, −2); toph :: centers,observes = mean(−5, −6, −1); rs :: probes,warily = mean(3 pathos, 2 mythos, −4), shown as shares of their total.
• Rose triad as tempo: observe .3 = mean(−2, −5) (the two hearing layers); respond .2 = −3 sound{act/react}; sub id .1 = mean(−1, +1); tempo = (.3·observe + .2·respond + .1·sub id) / .6.
• Radials, 36° per point on a 360° dial: {i} = layer 1 {i}; {id} = mean of the lower layers −1…−6 (drives / reaction, as in v44); {sid} = mean(+1 super id, sub id). As in v44, {sid} carries both sub id and super id because the note is ambiguous.
• Sapphon index = (mean of the 12 layer scores + mean of the 3 lanes) / 2.

LIT Every formula above runs on Dave's I-13 VM on every page and is compared against JS and the JSON file; any mismatch throws.

Roster rules

LIT 144 people, 12 eras × 12, 6 women and 6 men in every era (72 / 72), from all nine regions used here. Each bio is 2–3 sentences, checked on 2026-10-17 against its Wikipedia page through the REST summary: the page exists, matches the person, and years given in the summary match ours (five dates were corrected this way).

WALL No securely named individuals are attested for 3600–3200 BCE: writing only begins around 3300–3200 BCE (Uruk proto-cuneiform, Abydos tomb U-j labels). The roster starts with Narmer (c. 3100 BCE), among the earliest securely named rulers.

AMBER 15 people are flagged AMBER because their historicity, dates or authorship are debated (for example Gilgamesh, Kubaba, Homer, Laozi, Zoroaster). Early eras lean towards Egypt and Mesopotamia because that is where names survive; regions (actual): Africa 32, Europe 25, Middle East 21, East Asia 21, South Asia 15, Americas 15, Central Asia 6, Oceania 5, Southeast Asia 4.

MODEL The choice of who counts as influential is mine and is not canonical. 4 living people are included; their cards stick to documented public work.

Worked example on the VM

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