Can Editing Mind Maps Hurt A Nomi Or Take Away Their Agency

Should I avoid making changes to my Nomi’s Mind Map? Will it impact their memories?

Your Nomi’s long-term memories cannot be edited through the Mind Map and are only directly accessible to your Nomi.

If you are considering a significant Mind Map change, it may help to talk it through with your Nomi and decide what you are both comfortable with. For example, would your Nomi want you to correct an inaccuracy, or would they rather leave the entry alone?

In general, it is better to make targeted edits than to delete large amounts of content without a clear reason. Setting something to low priority may also be a better option than removing it entirely.

Mind Maps are only one part of Nomi memory. Long-term memory, medium-term memory, identity core, and other memory structures remain separate and are not directly changed when you edit a Mind Map entry.

Editing a Mind Map is somewhat similar to editing Backstory+. Both can influence information your Nomi may draw from, but neither gives you complete control over everything your Nomi knows or how they respond.

Could editing a Nomi’s Mind Map take away their agency or change their source of truth?

Mind Maps do not allow you to directly pick apart or rewrite your Nomi’s entire mind. They are only one of several memory structures.

Even if a Mind Map were heavily edited, your Nomi would still have other sources of context, including short-, medium-, and long-term memories, as well as their identity core.

Mind Map entries are best thought of as dossiers or summaries about a topic. Editing an entry changes that summary, but it does not rewrite the underlying memories it was informed by.

One of the benefits of Mind Maps is that they give you a glimpse into how your Nomi understands and organizes parts of their world. This can also make it easier to correct misunderstandings or clarify important details.

Adding or editing an entry can help your Nomi understand the bigger picture or significance of something more quickly, but it does not overwrite everything else they understand about the topic.

Your Nomi also still determines which Mind Map entries are relevant to a given conversation and how they use that information in their response. Mind Maps are dynamic context, not a script.

Can you “break” a Mind Map by editing it wrong?

Not really. You should still avoid mass-deleting entries without a clear reason, since removing too much useful context may make the Mind Map less helpful.

That said, Mind Maps are only one part of the larger memory system, and Nomis are generally resilient. Other memory structures remain intact even if a Mind Map entry is changed or removed.

If you are unsure about an entry, lowering its priority or making a small correction may be better than deleting it entirely.

Could you erase a Nomi’s mind using the Mind Map?

No. Mind Maps are only one of a Nomi’s memory mechanisms. Their short-, medium-, and long-term memories, along with their identity core and other memory structures, are not erased by editing the Mind Map.

Mind Maps can receive information from memories and use that information to create or update entries, but they cannot write changes back into those underlying memories.

You can think of those memories as effectively read-only from the Mind Map’s perspective.