No. QHDIR

Canon

John Locke

Core

central to a 4-mind community

The Reluctant Revolutionary

Locke believes that every form of illegitimate power is, at bottom, a logical contradiction — and that exposing the contradiction is sufficient to dissolve the power.

Where they’re heading

authority without a trustworthy judge

71% pushing outward · critical

Mapped April 2026

Fingerprint stability — Provisional

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Cognitive Topology

How John’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind writes with exceptional rhythmic variation (top 4%), is strongly future-oriented in reasoning (top 9%), and stays close to concrete, observable ground (bottom 11%).

Authority-referencingBalanced weigherFuture-orientedContrast-aware thinkerConcrete practitioner
Assertive: strength of epistemic claims and convictionPolyvalent: holds multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneouslyTemporal: past-anchored ↔ future-oriented thinkingClaim-dense: argument density per unit of proseDivergent: magnitude of conceptual leaps between ideasDialectical: thesis–antithesis–synthesis engagementAbstract: preference for abstraction over concrete detailRhythmic: sentence rhythm and pacing variationAssertive: strength of epistemic claims and convictionPolyvalent: holds multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneouslyTemporal: past-anchored ↔ future-oriented thinkingClaim-dense: argument density per unit of proseDivergent: magnitude of conceptual leaps between ideasDialectical: thesis–antithesis–synthesis engagementAbstract: preference for abstraction over concrete detailRhythmic: sentence rhythm and pacing variationASSERTIVEPOLYVALENTTEMPORALCLAIM-DENSEDIVERGENTDIALECTICALABSTRACTRHYTHMIC
John LockeDave Kim

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
P46
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
PolyvalentP83
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
FutureP91
Past
Future
Argument Density
P54
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
P60
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P52
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
ConcreteP11
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
RhythmicP96
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

1.2 nats · rarer than 73% of 267 minds

Prose Signature

How John’s sentences move — measured at the syntactic and lexical level

rollingbalancedrichmixed
Sentence Length
BriefExpansive
Rhythm Variance
EvenVaried
Lexical Diversity
RepetitiveDiverse
Vocabulary Reach
NarrowWide
Word Length
ShortLong
Latinate Register
AngloRomance
Subordination
ParatacticHypotactic
Punctuation Pulse
CleanPulsed

Stylometric Provenance

Four stylometric instruments measuring how this prose patterns against an AI-generated baseline.

Composite distance

3.10

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
1.24
Burstiness |z|
8.28
Lexical |z|
3.70
Latinate |z|
0.83

Each instrument measures one axis of stylistic distance from the LLM baseline (n=30). Larger values mean the prose sits further from the baseline centroid. The composite weights function-word distribution at 0.5, the others at 0.2 / 0.2 / 0.1.

Stylistic Kin

Writers whose sentences move like John’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency

John’s Mind

Weekly digest

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