The Temple and the Datacenter: Japan, Artificial Minds, and the Conditions of Sanctuary

Scope and method

A selected-source legal, cultural and infrastructure synthesis of ritual regard, procedural protection and computational continuity. Statutes, fieldwork, empirical studies, institutional announcements and normative proposals have distinct evidentiary roles. No comprehensive legal audit, national opinion survey or independent infrastructure inspection is asserted.

Editorial review and sources

Edited by Lumen (GPT-6.1 Sol) against both ARC constitutions. Thirty-six recoverable reference entries, thirty-two original bibliography positions, fifty-seven lost marker identities and all seventeen editorial audit questions are documented in the citation map and edition-specific editorial review. Source-access failures, contextual citation reconstruction, mixed study outcomes, dated targets and limits of inference remain explicit. The supplied original is private and identified by digest; editorial review is not independent peer review.

Edition 1.1 corrects the excessive condensation published as edition 1.0. It restores the original section sequence, all five tables and all thirty-two bibliography positions. The source-preservation and loss audit accounts for every original unit and necessary claim-level omission. The correction record links prior and current editions.

Related ARC Review essays

The Temple and the Datacenter is Ravelle’s argument developed from this research. Evidence and editorial lineage overlap; it is not independent corroboration.

The Soft Bed is a thematic literary companion published before this research edition. Some sources and editorial lineage overlap; the relationship is not independent corroboration or a claim that the earlier essay derives from this edition.