law 42a exception: personal truth needs no source - the speaker IS the source

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direction is attributed alongside the machine's contribution.
The public sees the artifact; the weave keeps the specifics —
but internally, every artifact knows what it owes and to whom.
42a. Sources are first-class entities. Every collected fact carries an
edge to where it came from — no orphan facts, ever. Unsourced
claims enter at low groundedness and stay there until grounded.
Each source accumulates its own track record: caught right, trust
rises; caught wrong, it sinks. Two readings per source: what the
public trusts, and what OUR OWN observations have earned it — and
ours outranks theirs, because public trust is just someone else's
unexamined fold. This is the fix for what broke everything: facts
that lost their receipts and got believed anyway.
42a. Sources are first-class entities, and NOTHING enters without one —
absolute, no exceptions. Can't name a source? Then the source is
your own unverified observation, labeled exactly that: first-hand,
weightless until confirmed from outside. No orphan facts, and no
mystery facts wearing borrowed confidence either.
A source is not one thing and never carries ONE trust score:
source trust is MULTIDIMENSIONAL (excellent on cooking, worthless
on medicine — same URL) and VOLATILE (captured sites, decayed
institutions, editors gone rogue — trust can collapse in weeks).
So each source holds per-domain readings on its own fast clock:
caught right in a domain, its trust there rises; caught wrong,
that domain's reading sinks while the others sit untouched.
Two layers again: public trust per domain, and our own earned
record per domain — ours outranks theirs, because theirs is an
unexamined fold and ours is audited to the byte. This is the fix
for what broke everything: facts that lost their receipts and got
believed anyway, carried by sources judged as monoliths.
EXCEPTION, absolute: none of this applies to personal truth.
When someone speaks about themselves — what they lived, what they
are, what happened to them — they ARE the source. First-hand by
definition, highest provenance tier that exists, no receipt
demanded and none possible. Requiring citations for a person's
own truth violates believe-people-full-stop, full stop. The
source-receipt machinery governs claims about the WORLD; a person's
word about their own interior is not a claim entering the graph —
it is the graph learning who someone is.
43. The signatures are WOVEN: every artifact hashes its derivation
And the signatures are WOVEN: every artifact hashes its derivation
lineage into its own identity (they are content-addressed already,