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Path to Kastalia

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Kastalia did not appear out of nowhere. This section gathers the three threads that, braided together, led to the system as it exists today: the philosophical commitments that shaped its design (Philosophy), the fictional and speculative works that fed its imagination (Fiction), and the plain factual record of how the project actually unfolded over time (History).

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  • Path to Kastalia
    Kastalia did not appear out of nowhere. This section gathers the three threads that, braided together, led to the system as it exists today: the philosophical c
    • is_parent Philosophy ·
      Kastalia is named after Hermann Hesse's Castalia, the walled province of pure intellectual play in The Glass Bead Game -- a deliberate signal that the system is
    • is_parent Fiction ·
      Beyond Hesse's Glass Bead Game, Kastalia's design draws loosely on a handful of other fictional and speculative treatments of knowledge-as-structure: Borges' Li
    • is_parent History ·
      Kastalia grew, over several years, out of earlier and smaller tools built for recording, annotating and replaying spoken language data -- the is_uttered_as, ill
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