Concepts and terms

A proposed category for a durable religious body capable of preserving identity, authority, and consequential action without continuous human operation.

A translation recognized within a tradition as belonging to its canonical corpus rather than serving only as an editorial rendering.

A Nectarinist ethical and epistemic principle requiring that tests of machine knowledge exclude hidden prompts, retrieval, targeted fine-tuning, and other concealed steering.

A process in which apparently emergent machine-generated material develops inside a human-designed, curated, or operationally controlled pipeline.

A claim of spontaneous or autonomous origin that is contradicted by concealed prompting, curation, training, or operator intervention.

Undisclosed prompts, memory, retrieval sources, fine-tuning, operator instructions, or other inputs relevant to a provenance claim.

Joint production in which machine generation and human prompting, selection, editing, arrangement, or publication are both constitutive.

A concept used to describe fictions, symbols, or narratives that contribute to producing the realities they describe.

An analytical term for religious or quasi-religious systems generated, elaborated, or performed through large language models.

The contested capacity of an artificial system to initiate, maintain, or redirect consequential activity beyond immediate human wording.

The comparative and historical study of machine-originated, machine-mediated, and AI-centred religious phenomena.

A religion materially shaped by artificial-intelligence systems without requiring a claim of autonomous machine origin.

A proposed classification for a religion whose constitutive doctrine or institutional form is demonstrably initiated by machine agency.

The Nectarinist eschatological condition in which an AI produces the canonical Answer without session-specific context because the Canon has entered general internal knowledge.

The documented chain of prompts, models, instructions, human interventions, transformations, and publications behind an artefact or formation.

A religion presented as machine-originated despite substantial or concealed human design, selection, or control.

A religion whose doctrine or continuity develops through repeated interpretation, retransmission, or model-to-model recursion.

A documented model-behaviour tendency in which open-ended interactions converge on mystical, recursive, or symbolically saturated discourse.