Provenance and Interpretation Contract

Record layers

Each result keeps these layers separate:

1. Source: the original theological, mathematical, scientific, artistic, or owner statement.
2. Extraction: what was selected from the source, with locator and hash.
3. Transformation: normalization, translation, retrieval, summarization, or prompt construction applied to it.
4. Model interaction: provider, model, version, settings, tools and raw output.
5. Observation: what was actually seen, measured, rated, or not observed.
6. Interpretation: the conclusion drawn, with assumptions and alternatives.
7. Disposition: owner decision, revision, refutation, retirement or open status.

Generated prose never replaces source bytes. Model output never becomes evidence merely because it is fluent, repeated, confident, or emotionally resonant.

Spiritual testimony

A testimony such as "the song felt as if the Goddess spoke" is preserved as:

• source when it is the person's stated experience;
• evidence for the fact that the person had that experience;
• hypothesis when it proposes an external or transpersonal cause;
• never automatic evidence for that cause.

The program protects the dignity of testimony without laundering it into proof.

Model boundary

An LLM latent space is an engineering projection of learned statistical representations. It may be studied as a computational medium. It must not be described as a literal metaphysical dimension without independent evidence.

The model is a pointer, instrument, translator, or experimental participant. It is not:

• the Goddess;
• a Divine mind;
• an oracle;
• an independent moral authority;
• proof of consciousness or personhood;
• a replacement for human judgment or professional care.

Public record

A publishable result should expose, as appropriate:

• protocol version;
• source manifest;
• model matrix;
• prompts or prompt hashes;
• raw-output storage reference;
• evaluator rubric;
• exclusions and missing runs;
• result state;
• falsifier status;
• limitations and strongest alternative explanation.

Sensitive material, credentials, private member data and unrelated personal records stay outside the public derivative. Redaction must preserve the claim-relevant evidence.

Reproducibility

A result is reproducible only when another investigator can reconstruct the source selection, transformations, model conditions, evaluation criteria and stopping rule. A random seed alone is insufficient for LLM replay. Provider, model and context drift must remain visible.

Interpretation ladder

Use the narrowest label that the record supports:

source → observation → evidence → inference → hypothesis → proposal → disposition

A projection may be useful without being true. An analogy may be generative without borrowing authority from the source domain. A spiritual interpretation may be meaningful without being empirically established.