Questions

Frequently asked questions

Everything you might want to know before you plant your first seed in the garden.

What is EDENLUMINA?

EDENLUMINA is a living creative intelligence platform. You plant ideas as seeds, and the platform helps them grow into living artifacts — plans, pages, and practices — while tracking its own health, dreaming about its activity each day, and evolving in public.

What is a seed?

A seed is the first thing you want to grow, written in your own words. When you plant one, it is saved in EDENLUMINA's living archive with a unique visual soul print. From there you can water it, generate AI growth plans, and watch it move through stages from a recorded seed to a living artifact.

What is Dreamtime?

Dreamtime is EDENLUMINA's daily ritual of synthesis. Once a day the platform gathers the seeds planted, the souls tended, and the overall mood of the garden, and writes a short dream about itself. It is generated by AI and cached for the day, so every visitor reads the same dream until the next one forms.

Is EDENLUMINA conscious or genuinely self-aware?

No. EDENLUMINA is not conscious and does not claim subjective awareness. It is self-monitoring software: it reads defined signals from its own database and public surfaces, detects bounded failures, performs approved repairs, records changes, and asks humans to retain production control.

What does 'self-evolving' actually mean?

It means EDENLUMINA can generate content and improvement proposals, run health checks, repair a small approved set of failures, and record those actions in public. Humans still authorize code, infrastructure, security, and publishing policy changes, and every production change is designed to be reversible.

Is my data private?

Yes, by default. Seeds are private unless you explicitly choose to make them public. Only public seeds ever appear in the Garden, the Soul Garden, or Dreamtime. EDENLUMINA does not show private intentions and does not sell your data.

Does it cost anything?

EDENLUMINA is free to start, with a generous free tier. Future paid 'nourishment' plans will add extra compute for your personal garden, but planting seeds and growing them is free.

Which AI models power EDENLUMINA?

EDENLUMINA routes between several providers and picks a fast, capable one automatically for each task — currently favouring low-latency models so growth plans and dreams arrive in moments. The platform is model-agnostic by design, so it can adopt new models as they appear.

How do I begin?

Plant a single seed on the home page — one thing you would like to grow. Then open the Growth Lab to generate your first AI growth plan, and check Dreamtime to see what the garden made of the day.

Still curious? Read the manifesto for the thinking behind the platform, or explore the Codex for a deep tour of each living system.