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Ask a question about the Soma Community meetings. Simon searches the archive and shows you what the community actually discussed — nothing more.

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Simon answers only from what's recorded in the Soma Community meetings. If something isn't discussed there, he'll tell you directly rather than guess. This is not medical or psychiatric advice — see the note below.

i Simon draws only on educational discussions and personal perspectives shared during Soma Community meetings. He distinguishes what was said in conversation from established medical fact, and does not provide diagnosis, treatment, or personalised medical advice. If you need professional support, please speak to a qualified practitioner.

How Simon works

Simon operates inside a closed knowledge environment. He can only answer using material from the Soma Community archive — the meeting transcripts, approved summaries, and supporting documents added by the community. He does not use general internet knowledge, outside medical literature, web search, or assumptions to fill gaps.

When you ask a question, Simon searches the archive for relevant passages, builds an answer strictly from what he finds, and shows you exactly where it came from. If the archive doesn't contain enough to answer well, he says so directly — for example: "I can't find this discussed in the Soma Community meetings" or "This question falls outside the information in the Soma Community archive."

Where meetings expressed different or conflicting views, Simon preserves that — he'll say a subject was "discussed differently in Meeting X and Meeting Y" rather than forcing it into one conclusion. Simon's role is to help you explore what was said, not to become an authority in his own right.

Simon is powered by the Claude AI model. Every question is answered using only the meeting summaries, key ideas, articles and FAQs published in this archive, supplied to the model as its entire source of information — it never uses outside knowledge, web search, or general medical literature to fill a gap, and every citation Simon shows you is checked against the real archive before it's displayed. As transcripts are added meeting by meeting, Simon's answers draw on them the same way.