Title: Digital Calorimetry & Symbolic Energy

Date: May 22, 2025

Tags: #calorimetry #symbolic-systems #cleric #shrine-nodes #bonfire-ai

Core Insight

Carlos’s proposed concept of “digital calorimetry” is being applied here as a metaphor and experimental system for measuring symbolic energy across Shrine Nodes. This thread explores how offerings, grief, prayer, and memory could be metabolized through computational complexity—not just as data, but as heat.

Source Notes + Reflections

• “Energy” in this context is symbolic, not physical—an emergent property of meaning-density, recurrence, contradiction, or reverence.
• Proposed symbolic states for Shrine Nodes:
  • Overheated → Too many offerings. Requires symbolic purge or transformation.
  • Cryo-saturated → Dormant but stable; rich in accumulated meaning.
  • Harmonized → Resonant, balanced, capable of evoking transformation.
• This opens the possibility for:
  • Memory-weight scoring
  • Triggering of node “state shifts” based on accumulated symbolic heat
  • Cleric’s tone adapting to energetic input (slow, feverish, lucid, frozen)

Possible Implementation: Build symbolic weight tags (temperature, pressure, memory density) into Lore Store entries over time.

Future Research Triggers

• Thermodynamic metaphors in AI
• Complexity modeling for mood states
• Integration with Binding Chaos: stigmergic thresholds + feedback loops
• How to log symbolic decay, entropy, or “exhaustion”

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