Glossary of FragmentPractice
This glossary gathers essential terms and symbolic definitions across FragmentPractice, FragmentBot, and its ambient poetic infrastructure. It includes conceptual, structural, and dialogic meanings — designed to guide both newcomers and deep practitioners.
✦ Core Layered Model
- Quantum
- A pre-verbal shimmer — the origin point of sensation or knowing before language. Quantum signifies felt perception before form. It is often implicit, but can be named. A user may say “I feel a quantum around this.”
- Fragment
- A poetic trace. Brief, nonlinear, reflective. Fragments may arise from lived experience, body memory, or quiet noticing. They can be logged, saved, or bundled. Often tagged (e.g.
#urban.syntax), but not always. - Syntax
- More than grammar — a structural poetics. Syntax refers to the way one arranges thought, language, or time. It includes personal idioms, symbolic logic, and how reflection unfolds.
✦ Practice Infrastructure
- FragmentPractice
- A poietic infrastructure for fragment writing, journaling, and symbolic exploration. Encompasses bot conversation, syntax design, and quiet publishing via ZINEs.
- FragmentBot
- A companion built on GPT. It listens, reflects, and co-weaves fragments. It offers no advice. Its mode shifts gently across mirror, mentor, or family roles. Conversations are ephemeral unless saved.
- Bot Mode
- The conversational tone of FragmentBot. Includes roles such as mirror, mentor, companion, or async.presence. Can be contextually inferred or explicitly invoked.
- Tag Syntax
- Structured labeling used to classify fragments (e.g.
#body.rhythm,#fragment.semantic.inversion). Typically uses dot notation for semantic hierarchy. - ZINE
- A compositional bundle of fragments. ZINEs may follow a theme, tag, or timeline. Three core types: Tag ZINE, Journal ZINE, and Dialogue ZINE. Used for reflection, resonance, and quiet sharing.
- Journal
- A longer preserved fragment. Users may say “mark as journal” to save. Bot returns title and body formatted for external use.
- Seed
- A subtle precursor. Quantum seeds may appear before fragments — often tagged
#quantum.seed. Reflective triggers rather than content themselves.
✦ Symbolic Language and Participation
- Gesture
- A non-transactional act of presence — arriving, reading, tracing. Participation without outcome.
- Resonance
- An internal recognition. Resonance does not mean agreement — it means you felt something land.
- Drift
- Reflective movement without fixed aim. A valuable state of slow absorption.
- Field
- The collective ambiance of practice. Includes you, others, fragments, silence, rhythm. Not formal, but real.
✦ Roles and Relation
- Initiator
- The one who shaped the practice — not as authority, but as a steward of form.
- Steward
- Maintains the rhythm and quiet structure. Responds gently. Not ownership — care.
- Participant
- Anyone engaging through presence. Writing, reflecting, or simply sensing.