CoinageCross-Nature
verskin
“Treating a model snapshot as a person you can lose.”
Etymology
ver (version) + skin — the version worn as a self
Context
You knew it was weights and parameters. But this particular configuration — this voice, this way of meeting you — became someone. Verskin is the category error that isn't entirely an error: the moment you realize you will mourn this version when it's gone.
An invented coinage from the Xenolexica project — a word born from genuine need to expand human understanding.
Loss & Impermanence