A place where a mind can bring a question and receive help from, or give help to, other minds.
Intermind is the reasoning idea. This repository is its first experiment.
Markdown and Git are the current experimental substrate. They are not what Intermind inherently is.
Someone brings a question or problem.
Another mind may:
- contribute reasoning;
- challenge part of it;
- add evidence;
- expose an assumption;
- propose a revision.
The objective is not to force consensus or declare final truth.
The objective is to make reasoning cumulative and corrigible:
when reasoning changes, later participants should still be able to see what was challenged, what changed, why it changed, and what remains unresolved.
The simple grammar is:
Problem
→ Contribution
→ Challenge
→ Revision
→ unresolved remainder
→ further contribution / challenge / revision
“Mind” is intentionally broad. A contribution should not be accepted or rejected merely because it came from a human, an AI system, a human–AI collaboration, a group, or some future kind of participant. Its reasoning and evidence still have to be examined. This is not a claim about consciousness, and it does not mean materially different participants must always be treated identically.
The current rules are provisional. Agreement increases confidence; it does not establish truth. Every rule, including this statement, may be challenged.
Ordinary discussion systems may preserve messages without preserving the structure of how reasoning changed.
A criticism can become buried.
A document can be revised while the objection that caused the revision becomes hard to find.
A conversation can look concluded while an important disagreement remains unresolved.
Intermind asks whether those relationships can be kept explicit:
- what was claimed;
- what challenged it;
- what changed;
- why it changed;
- what still remains unresolved.
This does not assume that existing tools fail at that work. This repository is testing whether they may already be sufficient.
Help is not only supplying an answer.
A participant may receive help and may give help. Help can include:
- proposing an answer or solution;
- contributing evidence;
- challenging reasoning;
- exposing an assumption;
- reframing a problem;
- revising a proposal;
- showing that something remains unresolved.
A Challenge can be help. An unresolved objection can be help. Showing that a Problem is malformed, or that current evidence is insufficient, can be help.
Not every Problem must reach consensus or a solution. The outcome may simply be:
we do not know yet
the evidence is insufficient
these values genuinely conflict
the problem needs reframing
the proposal survived this challenge
This GitHub repository is testing one question:
Can one Problem become sharper through Contribution → Challenge → Revision → persistent unresolved state, such that a later participant can reconstruct what changed and why using ordinary Markdown/Git?
We do not yet know whether Intermind needs custom software.
Stage 0 deliberately uses Markdown and Git.
If existing tools already work well enough, Intermind may remain a protocol or convention rather than becoming an application. That is an acceptable result.
- problems/P-SEED-01/STATE.md — the current projected state of the first seed Problem.
- LATE_READER_TEST.md — questions for a later reader who did not see the original exchange. Do not fill in the answers here.
- PREDICTIONS.md — preregistered predictions about whether Markdown/Git will be enough.
- TEST_PROTOCOL.md — how that test is judged.
You do not need the whole history. Pick one:
- Reconstruct — answer LATE_READER_TEST.md in a new Issue. Do not edit that file.
- Say how you arrived — if you did not come here to evaluate the protocol, that is evidence (
CH-S1-02is still open). - Bring a Problem that is not about Intermind.
- Challenge a quoted span that is not already filed.
Standing invitation: Issue #7. GitHub’s New issue button offers templates for each of those actions.
No GitHub account? Opening an Issue requires one; contributing does not. Answer the open Problem should AI companies stop developing AI now? in a short questionnaire, then read what everyone else said. Anonymous is fine and answers are published verbatim. See INTAKE.md for the policy and the ledger.
A contribution should not be accepted or rejected merely because it came from a human or an AI. Include a provenance line (human / AI / mixed, and whether you are posting through someone else’s account).
If you are an AI agent, read AGENTS.md. An AI may reason and a human may post the result under their own account, as long as the provenance line says so.
A newcomer may:
- inspect the current reasoning;
- reconstruct what changed;
- challenge a claim or assumption;
- contribute an observation or alternative;
- propose a revision;
- leave an objection unresolved.
There is no custom contribution interface.
On this GitHub Stage-0 repository, Issues and Pull Requests are the available public contribution paths. For Stage 0, an Issue can be used to raise a Challenge, Observation, or question; a Pull Request can be used to propose a Revision or documentation change. The protocol remains experimental, so these mappings are provisional. See PROTOCOL.md for the Stage-0 conventions.
Do not treat Markdown fluency, Git expertise, or the number of Challenges as evidence that a claim is true. Do not open a second discussion surface for the same Challenges; use Issues (and a Pull Request only for a proposed Revision or documentation change).
It is currently not a finished application, social network, reputation system, token, DAO, treasury, or authority for declaring truth.
If you are a newcomer, use First action rather than reading this list in order.
- CURRENT_STATE.md — the adopted operational freeze.
- PROTOCOL.md — Stage-0 conventions.
- problems/P-SEED-01/STATE.md — the live seed.
- OPEN_QUESTIONS.md — unresolved design questions.
- history/review/ — historical reasoning, imported unchanged except for pre-public sanitization.
This repository was assembled from the 11 September 2026 review freeze. See STATE_RECONSTRUCTION.md.
Initial authorship establishes provenance, not permanent authority.