Thinking tool · 2026

Intuition Canvas

I arrange things by feel. A model reads the same things from the words alone. This tool keeps my version frozen, so I can see where we disagree.

For thoughts I don’t want to resolve too early.

Open the tool →
↓How it works
The orientation a first visitor meets: four numbered steps — place fragments, freeze the arrangement, see the model’s reading, inspect the divergence — closing on “Neither one is the answer.”
What the tool says before it is used. The orientation states the grammar: place, freeze, the model reads the text, then inspect where the two readings disagree.
Why

The question is not whether the model reads better. It is whether two readings, made from different evidence, can be placed side by side and inspected. Your reading is frozen before the model’s appears, so neither can shape the other.

How it works
  1. 01

    Place

    Arrange fragments in a field. Distance from the center records felt intensity. Proximity records felt relation.

  2. 02

    Freeze

    Once frozen, it stays. Whatever the model says next can't move it.

    The canvas after freezing, named arrangement b019ed and stamped frozen 00:57, with “frozen · read separately” beneath it. Eleven fragments sit where they were placed.
    arrangement b019ed, frozen — the same arrangement the divergence below was read against.
  3. 03

    Model reads — text only

    The model receives the fragment text and nothing else. No coordinates, no positions. It returns relations, and may leave fragments unlinked.

    sent · [{ id, text }] per fragment, the lens, the reading language — and nothing further

    The instrument while a reading is in flight: the panel reads “waiting for the reading” and states that the fragment names and the chosen lens and language are sent, while where the fragments were placed stays in the browser.
    What travels, said while it travels. The names and the lens go; the placement does not.
  4. 04

    Inspect divergence

    Where the two readings disagree.

What it shows
Reading 01 over eleven fragments. Under “where the readings diverged” the model linked wet swimsuit and cold tiles, recorded as the 10th-nearest relation in the arrangement; below it, Crisp air beside sunburn, which the model left unlinked.

The model linked wet swimsuit and cold tiles — the 10th-nearest pair in the user’s arrangement.

The user placed Crisp air beside sunburn — the model left them unlinked.

Neither reading is treated as the answer. The difference is the material.

Does the model link anything?

Control test: six unrelated words, three sets, three runs each.

Control — unrelated words 0.33 mean strong relations per run
Real fragments 2.0 mean strong relations per run

The ranges do not overlap.

Observed failure mode: the model occasionally promotes structural similarity — things that pile up, things that repeat — to strong.

Full record: docs/control-test.md in the repository.

Record

Every reading is stored with the arrangement it was frozen against, so a reading can be reproduced rather than remembered.

Export and import carry fragments, frozen coordinates, relations, protocol version, and reading history in one file.

 

Four sessions so far: two by one person, two by people who had never seen it. I still don’t know how the gap differs from person to person.

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