diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ac2928d..3b2462f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -169,5 +169,7 @@ cython_debug/
 #.idea/
 
 .vscode/launch.json
-/content/*
-/memory/*
\ No newline at end of file
+/books/*
+/memory/*
+vocab.json
+progress.json
diff --git a/body.py b/body.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f0aeaf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/body.py
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+import os
+import asyncio
+import glob
+import threading
+import json
+from collections import deque
+import logging
+import discord
+
+from nervous_system import NervousSystem
+import dashboard    # <-- import your new Flask app
+import brain_map    # <-- import the blueprint to inject system
+
+# Path for progress persistence
+PROGRESS_PATH = 'progress.json'
+
+# Mute logger
+for noisy_logger in ["werkzeug", "flask", "flask.app"]:
+    logging.getLogger(noisy_logger).setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)
+
+# ─── Initialize Ruby & Discord ───────────────────────────────────────────────── # noqa: E501
+
+intents = discord.Intents.default()
+intents.message_content = True
+client = discord.Client(intents=intents)
+system = NervousSystem()
+system.history = deque(maxlen=100)
+
+# Load or resume vocab + embeddings
+system.sensory.load_vocab('vocab.json')
+system._resize_embeddings()
+print('Loaded vocab size:', len(system.sensory.stoi))
+
+# Resume progress
+if os.path.isfile(PROGRESS_PATH):
+    with open(PROGRESS_PATH, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+        system.processed_lines = data.get('processed_lines', 0)
+else:
+    system.processed_lines = 0
+
+# Compute total book lines
+total = sum(
+    1
+    for path in glob.glob('books/*.txt')
+    for line in open(path, encoding='utf-8')
+    if line.strip()
+)
+system.total_lines = total
+
+print(f'Resuming training at {system.processed_lines}/{system.total_lines} lines')
+
+# Inject into Flask contexts
+dashboard.system = system
+brain_map.system = system
+
+# ─── Book-training when idle ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── # noqa: E501
+
+
+async def train_books_idle():
+    await client.wait_until_ready()
+    await asyncio.sleep(5)
+    processed = 0
+    skip = system.processed_lines
+
+    for path in glob.glob('books/*.txt'):
+        with open(path, encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            for raw in f:
+                text = raw.strip()
+                if not text:
+                    continue
+                if processed < skip:
+                    processed += 1
+                    continue
+
+                await asyncio.to_thread(system.train, text, text)
+                processed += 1
+                system.processed_lines = processed
+
+                if processed % 200 == 0 or processed == system.total_lines:
+                    system.sensory.save_vocab('vocab.json')
+                    with open(PROGRESS_PATH, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as pf:
+                        json.dump({'processed_lines': processed}, pf)
+
+    # Final checkpoint
+    system.sensory.save_vocab('vocab.json')
+    with open(PROGRESS_PATH, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as pf:
+        json.dump({'processed_lines': system.processed_lines}, pf)
+
+
+@client.event
+async def on_ready():
+    print(f'Ruby is online as {client.user}!')
+    asyncio.create_task(train_books_idle())
+
+
+@client.event
+async def on_message(message: discord.Message):
+    if message.author == client.user or not message.content:
+        return
+
+    user_text = message.content.strip()
+    reply = system.generate(user_text)
+    await message.channel.send(reply)
+
+    system.history.append({'user': user_text, 'bot': reply})
+    asyncio.create_task(asyncio.to_thread(system.train, user_text, reply))
+
+
+# ─── Launch Dashboard & Bot ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── # noqa: E501
+
+
+def run_dashboard():
+    dashboard.app.run(
+        host='0.0.0.0', port=5000,
+        debug=False, use_reloader=False
+    )
+
+
+threading.Thread(target=run_dashboard, daemon=True).start()
+print('Dashboard available at http://127.0.0.1:5000')
+
+token = os.getenv('DISCORD_TOKEN')
+if not token:
+    raise RuntimeError('Please set the DISCORD_TOKEN environment variable')
+client.run(token)
diff --git a/brain.py b/brain.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe48e63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/brain.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+
+class Brain(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Minimal Transformer-based autoregressive model.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        vocab_size: int,
+        d_model: int = 256,
+        nhead: int = 4,
+        num_layers: int = 2,
+        dim_feedforward: int = 512,
+        max_seq_len: int = 128,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.token_emb = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, d_model)
+        self.pos_emb = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, max_seq_len, d_model))
+        encoder_layer = nn.TransformerEncoderLayer(
+            d_model=d_model,
+            nhead=nhead,
+            dim_feedforward=dim_feedforward,
+            batch_first=True,
+        )
+        self.transformer = nn.TransformerEncoder(encoder_layer, num_layers)
+        self.fc_out = nn.Linear(d_model, vocab_size)
+        self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        seq_len = x.size(1)
+        x = self.token_emb(x) + self.pos_emb[:, :seq_len, :]
+        x = self.transformer(x)
+        return self.fc_out(x)
diff --git a/brain_map.py b/brain_map.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e2a2bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/brain_map.py
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import numpy as np
+from flask import Blueprint, render_template, jsonify, request
+
+bp = Blueprint(
+    'brain_map',
+    __name__,
+    template_folder='templates',
+    static_folder='static',
+)
+
+# Will be injected from body.py
+system = None
+
+
+@bp.route('/graph')
+def graph():
+    return render_template('graph.html')
+
+
+@bp.route('/data')
+def data():
+    if system is None:
+        return jsonify({"nodes": [], "edges": []})
+
+    # 1) embeddings → cosine sims
+    emb = system.brain.token_emb.weight.detach().cpu().numpy()
+    N = emb.shape[0]
+    norms = np.linalg.norm(emb, axis=1, keepdims=True)
+    emb_norm = emb / (norms + 1e-8)
+    sim = emb_norm.dot(emb_norm.T)
+
+    # 2) filters
+    min_degree = int(request.args.get('min_degree', 1))
+    max_nodes  = int(request.args.get('max_nodes', 200))
+
+    # 3) valid tokens
+    items = [(tok, idx) for tok, idx in system.sensory.stoi.items() if 0 <= idx < N]
+
+    # 4) build undirected unique pairs & degree counts
+    deg = {int(idx): 0 for _, idx in items}
+    unique_pairs = set()
+    for _, raw_i in items:
+        i = int(raw_i)
+        count = 0
+        for raw_j in np.argsort(-sim[i]):
+            j = int(raw_j)
+            if j == i or j not in deg:
+                continue
+            pair = (min(i, j), max(i, j))
+            if pair in unique_pairs:
+                continue
+            unique_pairs.add(pair)
+            deg[i] += 1
+            deg[j] += 1
+            count += 1
+            if count >= 3:
+                break
+
+    # 5) filter & cap nodes
+    filtered = [(tok, idx) for tok, idx in items if deg[int(idx)] >= min_degree]
+    filtered.sort(key=lambda x: (-deg[int(x[1])], int(x[1])))
+    subset = filtered[:max_nodes]
+    subset_ids = {int(idx) for _, idx in subset}
+
+    # 6) build nodes with HSL coloring
+    max_deg = max((deg[idx] for _, idx in subset), default=1)
+    nodes = []
+    for tok, raw_idx in subset:
+        idx = int(raw_idx)
+        d = deg[idx]
+        hue = int((1 - d / max_deg) * 240)
+        nodes.append({
+            'id': idx,
+            'label': tok,
+            'color': {
+                'background': f'hsl({hue},80%,40%)',
+                'border':     f'hsl({hue},60%,30%)',
+                'highlight': {
+                    'background': f'hsl({hue},100%,50%)',
+                    'border':     f'hsl({hue},80%,40%)'
+                }
+            }
+        })
+
+    # 7) build edges
+    edges = [
+        {'from': a, 'to': b}
+        for (a, b) in unique_pairs
+        if a in subset_ids and b in subset_ids
+    ]
+
+    return jsonify({'nodes': nodes, 'edges': edges})
diff --git a/dashboard.py b/dashboard.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed2f39e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dashboard.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+from flask import Flask, render_template, jsonify
+import brain_map
+
+app = Flask(
+    __name__,
+    template_folder='templates',
+    static_folder='static',
+)
+
+# Register the brain_map blueprint
+app.register_blueprint(brain_map.bp)
+
+# Will be injected from body.py
+system = None
+
+
+@app.route('/')
+def dashboard():
+    return render_template('dashboard.html')
+
+
+@app.route('/progress')
+def progress():
+    if system is None:
+        return jsonify({'processed': 0, 'total': 0})
+    return jsonify({
+        'processed': getattr(system, 'processed_lines', 0),
+        'total':     getattr(system, 'total_lines', 0)
+    })
+
+
+@app.route('/interactions')
+def interactions():
+    if system is None or not hasattr(system, 'history'):
+        return jsonify([])
+    return jsonify(list(system.history))
diff --git a/nervous_system.py b/nervous_system.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..165dcd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nervous_system.py
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import torch
+import torch.optim as optim
+from torch.nn import CrossEntropyLoss
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from sensory import Sensory
+from brain import Brain
+
+
+class NervousSystem:
+    """Wraps the Brain, handles token growth, generation and on-the-fly training."""  # noqa: E501
+
+    def __init__(self, device: str = "cuda"):
+        self.device = torch.device(device if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")  # noqa: E501
+        self.sensory = Sensory()
+        vocab_size = len(self.sensory.stoi)
+        self.brain = Brain(vocab_size).to(self.device)
+
+        self.optimizer = optim.Adam(self.brain.parameters(), lr=1e-4)
+        self.criterion = CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=0)
+        self.meta_steps = 0
+
+    def _resize_embeddings(self) -> None:
+        new_size = len(self.sensory.stoi)
+        old_emb = self.brain.token_emb
+
+        # rebuild token embeddings
+        self.brain.token_emb = torch.nn.Embedding(
+            new_size, old_emb.embedding_dim
+        ).to(self.device)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            self.brain.token_emb.weight[: old_emb.num_embeddings] = old_emb.weight  # noqa: E501
+
+        # rebuild output head
+        old_out = self.brain.fc_out
+        self.brain.fc_out = torch.nn.Linear(
+            old_emb.embedding_dim, new_size
+        ).to(self.device)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            self.brain.fc_out.weight[: old_out.out_features] = old_out.weight
+            self.brain.fc_out.bias[: old_out.out_features] = old_out.bias
+
+    def generate(self, prompt: str, max_len: int = 50,
+                 temperature: float = 0.8, top_k: int = 50) -> str:
+        self.brain.eval()
+        raw_ids = self.sensory.encode(prompt, grow=False)[-self.brain.max_seq_len:]  # noqa: E501
+        out = torch.tensor(raw_ids, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device).unsqueeze(0)  # noqa: E501
+
+        result = []
+        for _ in range(max_len):
+            logits = self.brain(out)[:, -1, :]
+            # apply temperature
+            logits = logits / temperature
+            # top-k filtering
+            values, indices = torch.topk(logits, top_k)
+            probs = F.softmax(values, dim=-1)
+            next_tok = indices[0, torch.multinomial(probs, 1)].unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(0)  # noqa: E501
+            tok_id = next_tok.item()
+            if tok_id == self.sensory.stoi["<eos>"]:
+                break
+            result.append(tok_id)
+            out = torch.cat([out, next_tok], dim=1)
+
+        return self.sensory.decode(result)
+
+    def train(self, user_text: str, bot_text: str) -> None:
+        # 1) grow vocab on _train_ only
+        for txt in (user_text, bot_text):
+            _ = self.sensory.encode(txt, grow=True)
+        self._resize_embeddings()
+
+        # ensure <sep>
+        if "<sep>" not in self.sensory.stoi:
+            idx = len(self.sensory.stoi)
+            self.sensory.stoi["<sep>"] = idx
+            self.sensory.itos[idx] = "<sep>"
+            self._resize_embeddings()
+
+        combined = f"{user_text} <sep> {bot_text}"
+        ids = torch.tensor(
+            self.sensory.encode(combined, grow=False), dtype=torch.long, device=self.device  # noqa: E501
+        ).unsqueeze(0)
+
+        if ids.size(1) < 2:
+            return
+
+        inputs = ids[:, :-1]
+        targets = ids[:, 1:]
+
+        self.brain.train()
+        logits = self.brain(inputs)
+        loss = self.criterion(
+            logits.view(-1, logits.size(-1)), targets.view(-1)
+        )
+        self.optimizer.zero_grad()
+        loss.backward()
+        self.optimizer.step()
+
+        # a tiny meta-learning bump
+        self.meta_steps += 1
+        if self.meta_steps % 100 == 0:
+            for g in self.optimizer.param_groups:
+                old_lr = g["lr"]
+                g["lr"] = old_lr * 1.1
+                torch.cuda.synchronize(self.device)
+                g["lr"] = old_lr
diff --git a/sensory.py b/sensory.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5597211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sensory.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import os
+import json
+
+
+class Sensory:
+    """Dynamic whitespace tokenizer that can grow (or not) its vocab."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.stoi = {"<pad>": 0, "<unk>": 1}
+        self.itos = {0: "<pad>", 1: "<unk>"}
+
+    def encode(self, text: str, grow: bool = True) -> list[int]:
+        ids: list[int] = []
+        for tok in text.strip().split():
+            if tok not in self.stoi:
+                if grow:
+                    idx = len(self.stoi)
+                    self.stoi[tok] = idx
+                    self.itos[idx] = tok
+                else:
+                    idx = self.stoi["<unk>"]
+            else:
+                idx = self.stoi[tok]
+            ids.append(idx)
+        return ids
+
+    def decode(self, ids: list[int]) -> str:
+        return " ".join(self.itos.get(i, "<unk>") for i in ids)
+
+    def save_vocab(self, path: str = "vocab.json") -> None:
+        """Dump stoi+itos to disk."""
+        data = {
+            "stoi": self.stoi,
+            # JSON keys must be strings
+            "itos": {str(k): v for k, v in self.itos.items()}
+        }
+        with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            json.dump(data, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+
+    def load_vocab(self, path: str = "vocab.json") -> None:
+        """Load stoi+itos if it exists."""
+        if not os.path.isfile(path):
+            return
+        with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            data = json.load(f)
+        self.stoi = data["stoi"]
+        # convert itos keys back to int
+        self.itos = {int(k): v for k, v in data["itos"].items()}
diff --git a/templates/dashboard.html b/templates/dashboard.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..035e625
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/dashboard.html
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+  <meta charset="utf-8" />
+  <title>Ruby Dashboard</title>
+  <style>
+    body {
+      background:#1e1e1e; color:#ddd;
+      font-family:sans-serif; padding:20px;
+    }
+    h1 { color:#fff; }
+    .section { margin-bottom:20px; }
+    button {
+      background:#333; border:1px solid #555;
+      color:#ddd; padding:8px 12px;
+      border-radius:4px; cursor:pointer;
+    }
+    #history {
+      max-height:300px; overflow:auto;
+      border:1px solid #444; padding:10px;
+      border-radius:4px; background:#2e2e2e;
+    }
+    .entry { margin-bottom:8px; }
+    .user  { color:#8af; }
+    .bot   { color:#fa8; }
+  </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+  <h1>Ruby Dashboard</h1>
+
+  <div class="section">
+    <strong id="progress">Progress: 0/0</strong>
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="section">
+    <h2>Recent Interactions</h2>
+    <div id="history">Loading…</div>
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="section">
+    <button id="load-graph">Load Brain Map</button>
+  </div>
+
+  <script>
+    async function refreshProgress() {
+      const { processed, total } = await fetch('/progress').then(r=>r.json());
+      document.getElementById('progress').textContent =
+        `Progress: ${processed}/${total}`;
+    }
+    async function refreshHistory() {
+      const hist = await fetch('/interactions').then(r=>r.json());
+      const div = document.getElementById('history');
+      div.innerHTML = '';
+      if (hist.length === 0) {
+        div.textContent = 'No interactions yet.';
+        return;
+      }
+      hist.slice(-20).forEach(({user, bot}) => {
+        const e = document.createElement('div'); e.className='entry';
+        const u = document.createElement('div'); u.className='user'; u.textContent='User: '+user;
+        const b = document.createElement('div'); b.className='bot';  b.textContent='Bot: '+bot;
+        e.append(u, b); div.appendChild(e);
+      });
+    }
+    document.getElementById('load-graph')
+      .onclick = () => window.location = '/graph';
+    refreshProgress(); refreshHistory();
+    setInterval(refreshProgress, 5000);
+    setInterval(refreshHistory, 5000);
+  </script>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/templates/graph.html b/templates/graph.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5dd2c94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/graph.html
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+  <meta charset="utf-8" />
+  <title>Ruby Brain Map</title>
+  <script src="https://unpkg.com/vis-network@9.1.2/dist/vis-network.min.js"></script>
+  <style>
+    html, body {
+      margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%;
+      background: #1e1e1e; color: #ddd;
+      font-family: sans-serif;
+    }
+    #controls {
+      position: absolute; top: 10px; right: 10px; z-index: 2;
+      display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center;
+    }
+    #network { width: 100%; height: 100%; }
+    button, input {
+      background: #333; border: 1px solid #555;
+      color: #ddd; padding: 4px 8px; border-radius: 4px;
+      font-size: 14px; cursor: pointer;
+    }
+  </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+  <div id="controls">
+    <label>Min degree:
+      <input id="min-degree" type="range" min="1" max="10" value="1">
+    </label>
+    <label>Max nodes:
+      <input id="max-nodes" type="number" min="50" max="500" step="50" value="200">
+    </label>
+    <button id="apply-filters">Apply</button>
+    <button id="fit-btn">Fit Graph</button>
+  </div>
+  <div id="network"></div>
+  <script>
+    let network, nodesDS, edgesDS;
+    const filters = { min_degree:1, max_nodes:200 };
+
+    document.getElementById('apply-filters').onclick = () => {
+      filters.min_degree = +document.getElementById('min-degree').value;
+      filters.max_nodes  = +document.getElementById('max-nodes').value;
+      refreshData();
+    };
+
+    async function initNetwork(){
+      nodesDS = new vis.DataSet();
+      edgesDS = new vis.DataSet();
+      const container = document.getElementById('network');
+      const options = {
+        nodes: { font:{color:'#ddd'}, shape:'dot', size:8 },
+        edges: {
+          color:'#555',
+          smooth:false,           // no curves
+          selfReferenceSize:0,    // disable self-loops
+          arrows:{ to:false, from:false }
+        },
+        physics:{
+          enabled:true,
+          stabilization:{iterations:300, fit:true},
+          barnesHut:{gravitationalConstant:-500,springLength:150,centralGravity:0.2}
+        },
+        interaction:{
+          hover:true, tooltipDelay:200,
+          zoomView:true, dragNodes:true,
+          navigationButtons:true
+        },
+        minZoom:0.05, maxZoom:3
+      };
+      network = new vis.Network(container,
+        { nodes: nodesDS, edges: edgesDS }, options);
+      network.once('stabilizationIterationsDone', ()=>network.setOptions({physics:false}));
+      document.getElementById('fit-btn').onclick = ()=>network.fit();
+    }
+
+    async function refreshData(){
+      const qs = new URLSearchParams(filters);
+      const graphRaw = await fetch(`/data?${qs}&_=${Date.now()}`,{cache:'no-store'}).then(r=>r.json());
+      nodesDS.update(graphRaw.nodes);
+      edgesDS.update(graphRaw.edges);
+
+      // prune removed
+      const validNodes = new Set(graphRaw.nodes.map(n=>n.id));
+      nodesDS.getIds().forEach(id=>validNodes.has(id)||nodesDS.remove(id));
+      const validEdges = new Set(graphRaw.edges.map(e=>`${e.from}-${e.to}`));
+      edgesDS.get().forEach(e=>{
+        if(!validEdges.has(`${e.from}-${e.to}`)) edgesDS.remove(e.id);
+      });
+    }
+
+    // start up
+    initNetwork().then(()=>{
+      refreshData();
+      setInterval(refreshData, 5000);
+    });
+  </script>
+</body>
+</html>