No. YDA13
Canon
Sei Shōnagon
evenly connected to 19 minds
The Catalogue Aesthete
“turning aesthetic discrimination into a cumulative moral instrument — the list as the weapon of a fastidious mind”
Where they’re heading
→ the moral calculus beneath aesthetic taste
31% pushing outward · synthetic
Mapped April 2026
Fingerprint stability — Provisional
Based on one sample of writing. The pattern isn’t proven yet — submit another corpus to strengthen it.
Cognitive Topology
How Sei’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind builds from accumulated frameworks rather than axioms (bottom 0%), reasons from intuition and structure rather than data (bottom 0%), and grounds arguments in personal experience (top 11%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
1.2 nats · rarer than 70% of 267 minds
Prose Signature
How Sei’s sentences move — measured at the syntactic and lexical level
Stylometric Provenance
Four stylometric instruments measuring how this prose patterns against an AI-generated baseline.
Composite distance
2.69
weighted sum of the four signals below
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 Sei’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
Sei’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.