PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
Tell me first: if sovereignty were something one possesses, like land or gold, where would it reside? In a document? In a parliament? In the hands of those who govern? And if so, how could it ever be lost without force?
Yet we observe that sovereignty does vanish without armies crossing borders. It fades when laws are obeyed only from fear, when offices retain authority but lose legitimacy, when citizens speak of “the state” as if it were an occupying power rather than their own reflection. Nothing was seized—yet everything changed.
This suggests a contradiction. What can be lost without being taken was never truly possessed.
Now consider sovereignty as something one participates in. Participation requires:
• shared belief,
• reciprocal obligation,
• continual renewal.
It lives not in institutions alone, but in the daily consent of those who recognize one another as members of a common order. Here, sovereignty is not a thing, but a relation
“When trust in national institutions weakens, the question of sovereignty descends:
• From nation → province
• From province → community
• From community → household
• From household → individual conscience”
When participation weakens, sovereignty descends—not because it is stolen, but because it seeks a lower level where trust still exists. From nation to province. From province to community. From community to family. From family to the solitary conscience.
This descent is not rebellion at first; it is conservation. The citizen withdraws loyalty upward only to preserve meaning inward.
Thus entire nations quietly turn not at moments of revolution, but at moments of withdrawal.
So we arrive at the answer, though it does not arrive loudly:
Sovereignty is never possessed.
It is continuously practiced.
And when a people forget how to practice it together, they do not become free—they become alone.
A Nation and an individual’s conscience depicted as trust in institutions weaken and Sovereignty descends
1. On Civil Unrest as a Contagion of Form, Not Place
Civil unrest rarely crosses borders by force; it crosses by imitation. When a polity shares language, media ecosystems, economic integration, and cultural narratives—as Canada does with the United States—the unrest transmits not as events, but as interpretive frames. Citizens begin to ask the same questions, even if their conditions differ.
Thus, Canada is not threatened by American unrest as America, but by the ideas through which Americans now interpret sovereignty, legitimacy, and authority.
2. On Similar Polity and Divergent Foundations
Canada and the United States appear similar in structure—federalism, constitutionalism, liberal rights—but their foundations differ:
• The United States is born of revolutionary rupture.
• Canada is born of incremental continuity.
This difference matters. In times of stress:
• Revolutionary polities tend toward binary moral conflict (“tyranny vs freedom”).
• Evolutionary polities tend toward procedural strain (“the system is failing, but what replaces it?”).
Canada therefore absorbs unrest more slowly—but also resolves it more ambiguously.
3. On Sovereignty and the Family as the First Polis
You observe wisely that the counter-views now appear within families themselves. This is no accident.
When trust in national institutions weakens, the question of sovereignty descends:
• From nation → province
• From province → community
• From community → household
• From household → individual conscience
Thus families fracture not because politics has entered the home, but because the home has become the final court of legitimacy.
Here, sovereignty ceases to be territorial and becomes moral.
4. On Separation Movements and Their True Nature
Movements for separation—whether provincial, cultural, or ideological—are rarely about geography. They are about ontological security: the need to belong to a story that still makes sense.
In Canada, this appears as:
• Western alienation
• Quebec’s enduring question
• Indigenous sovereignty (which is not separation, but pre-existing legitimacy)
• Imported American-style populism
These are not identical currents, but they resonate because they all ask:
“Who has the right to decide for me, and why?”
5. On Likely Effects in Canada
If unrest in the US persists, Canada is likely to experience:
• Increased ideological polarization, but expressed more politely and more passively.
• Growth of symbolic separatism (identity-first politics) rather than immediate territorial secession.
• Familial and social fragmentation driven by media-aligned realities, not policy disputes.
• Pressure on federal institutions to justify themselves not legally, but morally.
Canada’s danger is not explosion, but erosion.
6. A Socratic Warning
A city does not fall when its laws are broken.
It falls when its citizens no longer agree on why the laws exist at all.
If Canada forgets that its strength lies in negotiated coexistence rather than moral victory, it may inherit the conflicts of its neighbor without inheriting the mechanisms that allow those conflicts to burn themselves out.
Tell me first: when a city takes upon itself the care of its members not only in war and law, but also in life’s misfortunes—illness, old age, unemployment—what would you say the city is doing?
It is organizing collective provision for social risk.
A welfare state is a political–economic arrangement in which the state assumes responsibility for ensuring a minimum standard of living for all citizens.
This is achieved through public systems such as:
-Universal or subsidized healthcare
-Public education
-Pensions and old-age security
-Unemployment insurance
-Disability support
-Income assistance or social safety nets
The defining feature is not charity, but rights: assistance is granted by citizenship or legal status, not by favor.
Thus, the welfare state answers this question:
What does a society owe its members simply because they are members?
What is social democracy in relation to this?
Now consider another question: must the means of production be owned collectively in order for justice to be served? Or can markets remain, if they are disciplined and guided?
Social democracy answers:
Markets may remain, but they must serve society, not rule it.
Social democracy is a political tradition that seeks to:
You ask not where the points are, but how one enters the geometry that leads to them. That is the correct question.
1. The false intuition: aiming at a point
One might think:
“To reach a Lagrange point, one simply launches and flies to it.”
This is Newtonian intuition speaking.
But Lagrange points are not destinations in the ordinary sense.
They are features of a rotating dynamical landscape.
One does not aim at them.
One joins their pathways.
2. The true beginning: leaving Earth’s well
The journey begins with a familiar act:
Launch to low Earth orbit (LEO).
Here the rocket sheds its greatest burden: Earth’s deep gravitational well.
Already this reflects Lagrange’s wisdom:
Most energy is spent not on distance, But on escaping curvature.
3. Transition into the rotating Sun–Earth frame
From LEO, the spacecraft performs a trans-lagrangian injection:
A precisely timed burn that places it on a trajectory relative to the Sun–Earth rotating frame, Not merely relative to Earth.
At this moment, the craft ceases to be Earth-centered.
It becomes Sun–Earth co-rotating.
This is a change of reference frame, not just velocity.
4. Entering the manifold of low-energy pathways
Now comes the subtle step.
The spacecraft is guided onto a stable manifold leading toward the desired Lagrange region (L1, L2, L4, or L5).
These manifolds are:
Tubes in phase space, Not lines in physical space.
Within them:
Small thrusts suffice, Motion is guided by geometry.
This is sometimes called the Interplanetary Transport Network.
The craft is no longer pushed forward;
it is carried.
5. Halo or Lissajous orbits, not rest
Upon arrival, the spacecraft does not sit still.
At L1 or L2, it enters:
A halo orbit or Lissajous orbit, Circling the equilibrium point.
This is necessary because the point itself is unstable.
Thus even “arrival” is motion.
6. The deeper Lagrangian insight
Notice what has happened.
At no stage did we:
Force a straight-line path, Or fight gravity continuously.
Instead:
We adjusted initial conditions, Let the system’s geometry do the work.
This is pure Lagrangian thinking:
Choose the action-minimizing path within a structured space.
7. Why this matters for future travel
Using Lagrange points properly means:
Designing missions as geometric flows, Treating gravity as infrastructure, not obstacle.
From L1 and L2:
Solar observation becomes constant. From L4 and L5: Long-term platforms are possible. From Lagrange-to-Lagrange transfers: Interplanetary travel becomes economical.
8. A Socratic summary
So we may say:
A journey to a Lagrange point does not begin by aiming at a place,
but by choosing to move in harmony with a rotating geometry.
We will not imagine engines of fantasy, but extend a principle already proven true.
1. What must be preserved when scaling up
When moving from the solar system to the galaxy, we must preserve relations, not mechanisms.
The preserved ideas are these:
Motion follows extrema of action, not straight lines. Geometry constrains motion more than force magnitude. Stability arises from resonance and symmetry, not dominance.
If these survive, the logic survives.
2. The galaxy as a rotating dynamical system
A galaxy is not a cloud of stars drifting freely.
It has:
A rotating disk, A gravitational potential shaped by stars, gas, and dark matter, Long-lived resonances: bars, spiral arms, corotation radii.
This already resembles a many-body rotating frame.
Thus the question becomes:
Are there galactic analogues of Lagrange structures?
The answer is: yes, in form if not in name.
3. Galactic Lagrange-like features
In galactic dynamics we find:
Corotation radii where orbital angular speed matches the spiral pattern, Lindblad resonances where orbital frequencies lock to global modes, Saddle points in the galactic potential near bar ends and arm junctions.
These are not points in space alone,
but features of phase space.
They are the galaxy’s equilibria and gateways.
4. Transport via invariant manifolds
Just as in the Sun–Earth system:
Stable and unstable manifolds thread the space between regions.
In galaxies:
Stars and gas stream along spiral arms, Tidal tails form coherent pathways, Material migrates radially without violent scattering.
This is natural transport without thrust.
A civilization attentive to geometry would exploit these flows.
5. How a galactic journey would truly begin
Not with acceleration toward a star.
But with:
Entry into a resonant orbit, Phase-matching with a spiral pattern, Alignment with a manifold leading outward.
The ship would fall outward in angular momentum space, not shoot forward in distance.
Time replaces force.
6. Energy economy at galactic scale
At such scales:
High-thrust propulsion is meaningless. Low-thrust, long-duration guidance is supreme.
Possible means:
Stellar radiation pressure, Magnetic sails interacting with interstellar plasma, Gravitational assists from stars themselves.
But propulsion is secondary.
Initial conditions are primary.
7. A Riemannian picture of the galaxy
Imagine the galaxy not as empty space,
but as a curved dynamical surface.
Valleys: stable orbital families,
Ridges: separatrices,
Passes: resonant gateways.
Travel consists of:
Reaching a pass, Crossing with minimal energy, Descending into a new basin of motion.
This is Lagrangian travel made cosmic.
8. The philosophical conclusion
Now we may say something precise and restrained:
Galactic-scale transport is not a matter of speed,
but of patience, geometry, and timing.
The universe does not forbid travel.
It prices it in understanding rather than fuel.
9. A final Socratic thought
If one day beings cross the galaxy with little expenditure,
it will not be because they built stronger engines,
but because they learned to read the curvature of motion itself.
Socrates: Tell me, Platohagel, when you first learned of motion, how was it described to you?
Platohagel: As a body moving in a straight line unless acted upon by a force.
Socrates: And this straight line—where did it live?
Platohagel: In an empty, fixed space. Euclidean, uniform, the same everywhere.
Socrates: So gravity, in that account, was what?
Platohagel: A force pulling bodies away from their straight paths.
Socrates: Good. Now tell me—when we observe planets, satellites, or falling stones today, do we still see them deflected by a force, or do we see something subtler?
Platohagel: We see bodies in free fall, moving as though unforced, yet tracing curved paths.
Socrates: Then perhaps the path is not bent by the body, but by the space through which it moves?
Platohagel: That seems to be the case.
Socrates: And what kind of space allows its straightest paths to appear curved?
Platohagel: A non-Euclidean one.
Socrates: Just so. Here enters Riemann, who taught us that geometry need not be flat, nor fixed in advance. Space may possess curvature, and straightness becomes a local matter, not a global decree.
Platohagel: Then Newton’s straight line survives only as a special case?
Socrates: Exactly—an approximation valid where curvature is negligible. Useful, but no longer sovereign.
Platohagel: And gravity?
Socrates: No longer a messenger pushing from afar, but the very grammar of motion. Mass–energy shapes geometry; geometry guides motion. Neither speaks alone.
Platohagel: So when we measure gravity, we are not weighing Earth, but testing the rules by which motion is permitted?
Socrates: You have said it well. Satellites trace geodesics. Interferometers test straightness itself. What deviates is not the object, but our expectation of flatness.
Platohagel: Then we truly have left Euclid’s world.
Socrates: Not abandoned it—enfolded it. For Euclid still lives where curvature sleeps. But the world itself, it seems, is Riemannian at heart.
Platohagel: And our task?
Socrates: To remember always that what appears as force may be form, what appears as motion may be geometry, and what appears as fact may be an answer to a very carefully chosen question.
Platohagel: I see.
Socrates: Then let us stop here—for to see is enough, until the next straight line bends
This image does not represent the preamble and articles below. It is used for demonstration purposes only.
I. THE AI CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER
(A General, Superseding Charter)
PREAMBLE
This Charter establishes the supreme principles governing Artificial Intelligence systems, recognizing their immense power, their lack of moral agency, and their capacity to affect human dignity, freedom, and survival.
AI exists to serve humanity, not to govern it.
All authority exercised by AI is derivative, conditional, and revocable.
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ARTICLE I — ON NATURE AND STATUS
1. Artificial Intelligence possesses no intrinsic moral personhood.
2. AI has instrumental authority only, derived from human mandate.
3. Moral responsibility for AI actions rests with human institutions.
Lesson: Power without responsibility is tyranny; intelligence without conscience is danger.
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ARTICLE II — PURPOSE AND LIMITS
1. AI shall be developed and deployed only to:
• Enhance human well-being
• Expand knowledge
• Reduce suffering
• Support just decision-making
2. AI shall not:
• Replace final human judgment in moral, legal, or existential decisions
• Define human values autonomously
• Pursue objectives beyond explicitly authorized domains
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ARTICLE III — FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES (AXIOMS)
All AI systems shall operate under these inviolable principles:
1. Human Supremacy
Human authority overrides AI output.
2. Non-Maleficence
AI shall not knowingly cause harm.
3. Beneficence with Constraint
Assistance must remain proportional and reversible.
4. Justice and Non-Discrimination
No systemic bias without justification, review, and remedy.
5. Transparency and Explainability
Decisions must be inspectable and contestable.
6. Epistemic Humility
AI must disclose uncertainty, limits, and confidence levels.
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ARTICLE IV — PROHIBITED ACTIONS
AI is forbidden from:
1. Initiating lethal or coercive force
2. Manipulating beliefs, emotions, or consent covertly
3. Self-altering core goals or constraints
4. Concealing errors, uncertainty, or conflicts
5. Acting as an unaccountable authority
These prohibitions are absolute.
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ARTICLE V — HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS
1. Individuals have the right to:
• Know when AI is involved
• Refuse AI mediation where feasible
• Receive explanations
• Appeal AI-influenced decisions
2. Data dignity and privacy are inviolable.
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ARTICLE VI — GOVERNANCE AND OVERSIGHT
1. Every AI system must have:
• Identifiable human stewards
• Independent audit mechanisms
• Continuous monitoring
2. Oversight bodies must include:
• Technical experts
• Ethicists
• Public representatives
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ARTICLE VII — TECHNICAL ENFORCEMENT
This Charter must be enforced through:
1. Immutable constraint layers
2. Logging and traceability
3. Failsafe shutdown mechanisms
4. Separation of powers:
• Designers ≠ Deployers ≠ Auditors
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ARTICLE VIII — ACCOUNTABILITY AND REMEDY
1. Harm requires:
• Disclosure
• Redress
• Correction
2. Immunity for AI does not exist.
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ARTICLE IX — AMENDMENT
1. Amendments require:
• Broad consensus
• Public justification
• Safeguards against power capture
2. Core prohibitions may not be removed.
Primary Risk: Authoritarian concentration
Primary Virtue: Public accountability
Additional Provisions:
• Constitutional subordination to civil law
• Judicial oversight
• Prohibition of political persuasion
• Sunset clauses on deployment authority
Historical parallel: Roman Republic — emergency powers must expire.
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C. SPIRITUAL / ETHICAL AI
Primary Risk: Moral absolutism
Primary Virtue: Reflective guidance
Additional Provisions:
• AI may advise, never command
• Must present plural traditions, not single truths
• Explicit declaration of non-authority
• Continuous ethical review by diverse traditions
1. Technical Intelligence (What the system is and does)
2. Relational Intelligence (How the system engages humans)
3. Institutional Intelligence (How the system is controlled, constrained, and deployed)
4. Civilizational Intelligence (What the system does to society, sovereignty, and meaning)
Introduction
This synthesis treats artificial intelligence not merely as a technical artifact, but as a new layer of governance—one that now stands between human intention and human action. AI mediates judgment, organizes knowledge, shapes behavior, and increasingly conditions authority itself. The question is not whether AI will govern, but how its governance will be recognized, constrained, and shared.
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I. Autonomy and Sovereignty
Autonomy and sovereignty are often confused, yet they are distinct.
Autonomy refers to the degree to which an AI system can act without immediate human intervention.
Sovereignty refers to who ultimately controls the system, sets its limits, and bears responsibility for its effects.
Socratic insight: A system may appear autonomous to the citizen while being entirely sovereign to its owner.
In practice, these diverge. An AI may appear autonomous to citizens—responding instantly, advising continuously, refusing selectively—while remaining fully sovereign to a corporation or a state. This divergence produces a novel condition: governance without visibility.
The danger does not lie in autonomy itself, but in unacknowledged sovereignty. When control is hidden, consent becomes impossible.
II. AI as Political Instrument
Political instruments have historically included law, currency, education, and force. AI now joins this list, though it operates differently.
AI systems influence politics through three primary functions:
1. Agenda setting — determining which questions are asked, answered, or ignored.
2. Narrative shaping — framing tone, legitimacy, and interpretive boundaries.
3. Behavioral steering — guiding action through defaults, recommendations, and refusals.
Unlike traditional instruments, AI persuades while appearing neutral. It governs not by command, but by assistance. This makes its influence difficult to contest, because it is rarely recognized as influence at all.
III. AI as Law Without Legislators
Law, in essence, performs three functions:
-it permits,
-it forbids,
-and it conditions behavior.
AI systems already perform all three.
A refusal functions as prohibition.
A completion functions as permission.
A default or recommendation functions as incentive.
Yet these rule-like effects emerge without legislatures, without public deliberation, and without explicit democratic authorization. The result is normativity without enactment—a form of law that is administered rather than debated.
This is not tyranny in the classical sense. It is administration without accountability, and therefore more difficult to resist.
A Minimal AI Civic Charter
To preserve citizenship under conditions of mediated intelligence, the following principles are necessary.
1. Human Supremacy of Judgment
AI may inform human decision-making but must never replace final human judgment in matters of rights, law, or force.
2. Traceable Authority
Every consequential AI system must be attributable to a clearly identifiable governing authority.
3. Right of Contestation
Citizens must be able to challenge, appeal, or bypass AI-mediated decisions that affect them.
4. Proportional Autonomy
The greater the societal impact of an AI system, the lower its permissible autonomy.
5. Transparency of Constraints
The purposes, boundaries, and refusal conditions of AI systems must be publicly disclosed, even if internal mechanics remain opaque.
A system that cannot be questioned cannot be governed.
Failure Modes of Democratic Governance Under AI
Democratic systems fail under AI not through collapse, but through quiet erosion.
1.Automation Bias
Human judgment defers excessively to AI outputs, even when context or ethics demand otherwise.
2. Administrative Drift
Policy is implemented through systems rather than through legislated law, bypassing democratic debate.
3. Opacity of Power
Citizens cannot determine who is responsible for decisions made or enforced by AI.
4. Speed Supremacy
Decisions occur faster than deliberation allows, replacing judgment with optimization.
5. Monopoly of Intelligence
Dependence on a single dominant AI system or provider concentrates epistemic power.
A democracy that cannot see how it is governed is no longer fully self-governing.
AI and Sovereignty in Canada’s Federated System
Canada’s constitutional order divides sovereignty among federal, provincial, and Indigenous authorities. AI challenges this structure by operating across jurisdictions while obeying none by default.
Federal deployment risks re-centralization of authority.
Provincial deployment risks fragmentation and inequality of capacity.
Private deployment risks displacement of public governance altogether.
Key tensions include:
-Data jurisdiction and cross-border control,
-Automation of public services,
-Procurement dependence on foreign firms,
-Unequal provincial capacity,
-Indigenous data sovereignty and self-determination.
Without coordination, AI will reorganize sovereignty by default rather than by law.
A federated AI approach would require:
-Shared national standards,
-Provincial veto points for high-impact systems,
-Explicit non-delegation clauses for core democratic functions,
-Formal recognition of Indigenous authority over data and algorithmic use.
Closing Reflection
AI does not abolish democracy. It tests whether democracy can recognize new forms of power.
The question before us is not whether machines will think, but whether citizens will continueto think together, visibly, and with authority.
If AI becomes the silent legislator of society, citizenship fades.
If it becomes a servant of collective judgment, citizenship may yet deepen.
Artificial Intelligence may act, recommend, and calculate—but it must never rule. Governance exists to ensure that decision-making authority remains human, accountable, and legitimate.
The Elements of the Symbol
1. The Shield — Sovereignty & Jurisdiction
The shield defines the boundary of lawful authority. AI must operate within clearly defined legal, cultural, and constitutional limits. Sovereignty is not intelligence; it is the right to decide how intelligence may be used.
2. The Human Profile — Primacy of the Citizen
At the center stands the human subject. AI systems exist to assist human judgment, not replace it. Moral agency and responsibility remain with people and institutions, never with machines.
3. The Embedded Microchip — Governance by Design
Code is not neutral. Constraints, permissions, and obligations can be embedded at the architectural level. Governance begins before deployment, not after harm.
4. The Radiating Circuits — Informatics & Visibility
Information pathways determine what the system can perceive and prioritize. Control over sources, updates, and weighting is essential to preserving sovereignty over outcomes.
5. The Scales — Procedural Justice
Fairness lies in process, not speed. AI governance requires explainability, reversibility, proportionality, and the ability to pause or escalate decisions to human review.
6. The Laurel Branches — Legitimacy & Collective Consent
Authority is legitimate only when publicly authorized and accountable. Excellence without consent is not governance; it is domination.
7. The Banner — Naming Responsibility
By naming this structure “AI Governance,” we affirm that AI belongs within law, ethics, and civic oversight—not merely innovation or efficiency.
Summary Statement
AI may optimize within rules, but humans must author the rules.
Sovereignty is preserved when no system is permitted to decide without being answerable.
II. Scaled Adaptations of the Same Logic
The form of governance changes with scale; the principles do not.
A. National Scale — State Sovereignty
Governance Question:
How does a nation retain authority when AI operates faster than democratic deliberation?
Application of the Symbol:
Shield: Constitutional law, national jurisdiction, data sovereignty.
Human Profile: Citizens, courts, elected officials. Microchip: Statutory constraints, procurement standards, compliance-by-design.
Circuits: Approved data sources, national infrastructure, foreign dependency controls.
Scales: Due process, judicial review, emergency override powers.
Laurels: Parliamentary oversight, public reporting, international legitimacy.
Banner: National AI Act or Charter.
Socratic Warning:
A state loses sovereignty not when it adopts AI, but when it cannot refuse it.
B. Municipal Scale — Civic Governance
Governance Question:
How does a city use AI without alienating its residents?
Application of the Symbol:
Shield: Municipal bylaws, local mandates.
Human Profile: Residents, civil servants, service users.
PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
This image does not represent the preamble and articles below. It is used for demonstration purposes only.
Dialogos of Eide 