Epistemic Resonance

What is Epistemic Resonance and what is it for?

Epistemic Resonance records claims, the critiques made of them and the evidence attached to them as a connected graph rather than as flat posts, so an argument keeps its context and its history. This project packages that protocol as a standalone desktop application carrying its own Holochain conductor, so it can be installed and run without Rust, Node or a terminal.

The app exists because the earlier way of running Holochain applications stopped fitting this one. That model was a single Holochain Launcher that installed many applications from a bundle; the app manifest format later changed, and current Launcher releases reject a bundle built for a newer Holochain with a manifest parse error rather than a version mismatch. This project takes the other route — one packaged desktop app per application, each one carrying its own conductor.

In use, the app is a place to put statements in public and to answer them. You publish a claim together with the confidence you hold in it, critique someone else's claim by choosing the kind of critique you are making, attach evidence, and retract something you no longer stand behind — retracting adds a record rather than deleting one. You can found a domain and join one. There are no scores, rankings or reputation numbers for any agent, claim or critique, and critiques are capped per hour so that disagreement costs something.

A whole session fits in that loop: a claim is posted, someone answers it with a methodological critique, supporting evidence is attached to both, and a later retraction sits alongside the original instead of erasing it. Running it needs no Rust, Node or terminal. The packaged application is described in the repository's own README, and the protocol it ships is documented in the sibling repository's operating manual.

From 4 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.