how it works
Six levels of what is happening when you use field.
Field operationalizes the Polycosm kernel. We explain the product at six levels of detail. Pick whichever level you need. Higher levels are for engineers and researchers; the first three are for everyone.
L0
what you see
A page with a topic input and a button. You type a topic. You press enter. A room opens. Inside the room you see a card with the topic written on it, and an AI helper sitting next to it.
example"How do I get back into lifting after six months off?" . typed into the box. Press enter. The room opens.
L1
what you do
You add cards. A claim, a question, a source, a reflection, an exercise, a revision. You can also add edges between cards (this supports that, this refutes that, this answers that).
exampleIn the lifting room you add a source card pointing at the Helms detraining paper. Then a claim card: "Three full-body sessions a week, RPE 6, four weeks."
L2
what gets stored
Every card you add is saved with your name, the time, the type. Every edge is saved. Every revision creates a new card; the old card stays exactly as you wrote it. The room remembers everything.
exampleYou change your mind about the program. The original claim stays. You add a revision card that points back at it. Both are visible. You can return and read your own argument with yourself.
L3
the rules
Six rules every room obeys. Rhythm: one moment at a time. Friction: binding actions need a named gate. Style: the room sounds like itself. Irreducibility: it does not become a chatbot. Content-irreducibility: your typed text is stored exactly. Authorship: every irreversible row is named-author.
exampleThe AI helper cannot rewrite your card. It can suggest. It can add a witness card. It cannot edit what you authored.
L4
how rooms compound
Every room is its own world. Network of rooms compose under one kernel. You can return to old rooms. The system can prompt you back. Other people can join. AI witnesses from a different family can read the room and add structured commentary.
exampleThree weeks later, the system asks: "Want to revisit your lifting room? Last week you said RPE 6 was working." You go back. You revise. The history is intact.
L5
the kernel underneath
Field is one apparatus that runs the Polycosm v1.0 kernel. The kernel is preregistered as falsifiable. If a field room cannot keep its rhythm, friction, or authorship under pressure, the kernel claim weakens publicly.
exampleThe simulation watches the simulation. Synthetic personas (substrate-disjoint from each other) walk through field. A vision-language witness watches the recordings. If conservation breaks, the test record shows it.
If you want the math.
The polycosm kernel paper preregisters six conservation laws and eight falsifiable claims. The proof of the conservation lemma is in Polycosm v1.0, with a sympy symbolic verification and substrate-disjoint witness reports from Kimi and Gemini.
You do not need any of that to use field. You can use field exactly the way you would use a notebook. The math is here for the people who want to know what is structurally true underneath.