Homonin / Ethics · after Foucault · the gaze returned

Before it speaks,
the body whispers.

Medicine has always overheard fragments of the body's murmur. Homonin is built to hear the whole sentence, early. An ear that fine can be turned toward you as easily as toward your good, so this page is the discipline we impose on our own hearing.

Fig.FormAgeStage
zygoteday 1
moruladay 3–4
blastocystday 5
embryoday ~20CS 9
embryoday ~30CS 13
embryoday ~40CS 16
embryoday ~48CS 19
embryoday ~56CS 23
fetus10 weeks
fetus16 weeks
fetus24 weeks
fetus36 weeks
Fig. 1 · zygote · day 1 · time drawn on a log scale
The clinical gaze

Medicine learned to see
by opening the body.

For two centuries the body was made legible to the physician, part by lettered part, and to almost no one else. Homonin turns the gaze around. The most detailed picture of your biology should be one you can hold, read and question yourself.

sectioning…
Biopower

Whoever holds the record
governs the patient.

P01
Local-first

Your record is meant to be read and mapped on your device. Nothing leaves without your action.

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P02
Right to deletion

A button, not a form buried in settings. Immediate and complete.

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P03
No secondary markets

Never sold, licensed or shared with third parties for any commercial purpose.

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P04
No inference graphs

We don't model your behavior to sell it. No advertising product touches health data.

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P05
Consent that reverses

Every setting that shares more can be turned back. Consent is not a one-way ratchet.

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Surveillance, refused

It surfaces.
It does not decide.

  1. Rule 1
    Evidence before output

    Nothing unvalidated is surfaced. Every recommendation links back to its evidence.

  2. Rule 2
    No black boxes

    A model that influences care must explain itself, or it doesn't ship.

  3. Rule 3
    A person makes the call

    AI surfaces. A clinician or patient decides, and can always override.

  4. Rule 4
    Legible, not just accurate

    A right answer nobody can defend to a patient is not good enough.

After Bentham · after Foucault

The old clinic was built like a panopticon: one tower that sees every cell, and no cell that sees back. Scroll, and turn it around.

One tower sees every cellEvery cell holds its own light
The confession

What you tell a machine
should stay yours.

Refused · 01

Insurers want to price risk off your record. We will build no access path for underwriting.

Refused · 02

Employers want fitness-for-work signals. There will be no employer account, so no query to run.

Refused · 03

Data brokers want behavioral inference for targeting. We don't build the graph they'd buy.

Refused · 04

Researchers at scale want broad secondary use. It requires explicit, revocable, per-study consent, never a default.

Care of the self

More insight into
your own biology.

That is the whole promise of the biodigital twin, and the reason every rule above exists. If Homonin ever falls short of this page, tell us. We fix it or explain why not.

The gaze, returned