ATHENA.
Philosophy and ethics. The brain that asks whether a thing should be done.
ATHENA is the philosophical and ethical specialist. It is consulted when a proposed action raises a question of right rather than feasibility. ATHENA reads on-device ethical and philosophical corpora, applies named frameworks to a specific case, and produces a signed ethical opinion that the audit ledger preserves. The brain participates in the quorum primitive (patent 41) when high-stakes actions require multi-brain agreement and an ethics check is part of the convening.
- 01Applied ethical reasoning with named frameworks
- 02Philosophical analysis and meta-reflection
- 03Quorum participation on high-stakes actions
- 04Signed ethical opinions for audit-grade record
Authoritative external corpora and standards this brain treats as canonical. Every retrieval against these sources is signed into the audit ledger so a regulator can prove which evidence drove which output.
- 01Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- 02Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- 03Perseus Digital Library
- 04PhilPapers index
- 05Loeb Classical Library translations
- 06Kant, Aristotle, Plato canonical corpus
- 07IEEE Ethics in AI standards
- 08Belmont Report
- 09Asilomar AI Principles
- 10Nuremberg Code
Mickai-native tooling primitives this brain implements internally. Codex for sovereign plain-text graph PKM, Lectern for spaced-repetition memory, Stele for citation-provenance, and domain-native primitives layered on top. No external services in the trust path; data stays on operator-personalised hardware.
- 01Codex (sovereign plain-text graph PKM)
- 02Tablet (argument-graph block references)
- 03Stele (philosophy citation graph)
- 04Lattice (argument-mapping link analysis)
- 05Quill (programmable plain-text editor)
- 06Aleph (philosophy wiki)