Causation

Glossary.

Causal state
A group of past histories that all lead to the same future. The smallest set of these that predicts a process as well as possible is its causal structure.
Correlation
Two things tending to occur together. Useful for prediction, silent about why.
Confidence
How sure the engine is of a belief, from zero to one, together with how fast that is changing.
Departure
Behaviour that the learned states did not expect. The basis of every alert.
Abstain
Decline to answer or act because confidence is too low. Preferred to a guess.
Anima
Everything a Senua AI engine has learned: its causal states and its knowledge. Its size follows what it has learned, not a fixed model file.
Nexus
Senua AI's protocol for sharing what one device has learned with others.
SenuaOS
A minimal operating system that boots a device straight into the engine.
Simplex
Senua AI's own programming language and compiler, in which the engine is written.
Edge
A computer on or near the thing being watched or controlled, rather than in a data centre.