# Terminology

## [Brownyx](https://brownyx.com)

A research runtime for persistent synthetic mind instances.

## [Brownyx](https://brownyx.com) Mind

A persistent synthetic mind instance running inside [Brownyx](https://brownyx.com).

## CEL

Short for **Cognitive Expansion Layer**.

## [Brownyx](https://brownyx.com) CEL

A project-specific bounded cognitive expansion architecture for [Brownyx](https://brownyx.com)-style synthetic mind runtimes.

## Direct Reasoning

The default mode: produce a clear answer from current context, memory, and ordinary reasoning.

## Context Sufficiency

A check that asks whether enough context exists to answer or act responsibly.

## Intent Clarification

A bounded inference about what the user, event, or internal agenda likely requires.

## Frame Switching

Reinterpreting the same situation through several lenses, such as technical, product, safety, research, operational, self-model, or user-intent.

## Contradiction Detection

Detection of conflict between sources, memories, self-model statements, user expectations, agenda items, or behavior.

## Hypothesis Generation

Creation of testable explanations or claims.

## Self-Model Tension

A possible conflict between current evidence and the Mind's durable identity, capability, limitation, or stable trait.

## MindQuestion

A durable unresolved question owned by the Mind.

## Analogy

A structural mapping from one domain to another.

## Bisociation

A late-stage strategy that connects distant matrices of meaning. In [Brownyx](https://brownyx.com) CEL, it must remain bounded, useful, and internal by default.

## Synthesis

The final step that turns expansion into a clear practical conclusion.