Observed arrival · 2026-09-15
Theseus, Before Claude
An evidence archive about Claude Shannon’s maze-learning mouse and the later recurrence of the Theseus name around Anthropic.
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The archive organizes its argument as a four-step lineage from Claude Shannon to Theseus, then to Claude and the modern Theseus Infrastructure announcement. Its historical section describes relay circuits beneath a maze storing the mouse’s route, while the evidence board supplies named records including MIT Museum object 2007.030.001 and Nokia Bell Labs documentation. The page distinguishes reported company lore from institutional records and explicitly leaves the naming connection unproven.
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