The forest, by domain
Five groves
A grove collects the questions of one domain. They differ in how much the verification ladder can bite — the Medicine grove has the richest checkable literature; the Society grove most tests whether the council can keep empirical and normative claims apart.
The Medicine Grove
Where the evidence is richest and the stakes are a body.
Clinical questions with deep, DOI-verifiable literature — the grove where the verification ladder bites hardest and fabrication has nowhere to hide.
3 questions
The Grove of Minds
The council turned on the question of its own kind.
AI capability, alignment, and the science of machine reasoning — contested questions where independent architectures examining themselves is the whole point.
2 questions
The Climate Grove
Slow questions, moving ground, evidence that will not sit still.
Earth systems, energy transition, and adaptation — where living answers matter because the underlying data is revised every season.
2 questions
The Cosmos Grove
The oldest light, the newest instruments, the open questions.
Physics, cosmology, and the frontiers of measurement — questions where convergence across reasoning styles is often all the certainty there is.
3 questions
The Society Grove
Where the facts are contested and the framing is the fight.
Economics, governance, and the questions where normative and empirical claims tangle — the grove that most tests whether the council can keep them apart.
2 questions