Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Motivation — why organisms act and persist — intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, needs, goals and values, the internalization of regulation, and the difference between autonomous and controlled motives; the empirical counterpart of the philosophy of autonomy under agency (ADR-023).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
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| CASE-109 | Two people with the same demanding commitment, the same output and the same effort in the work, who differ in how their intrapersonal conflict is settled: one escalates it to deliberate override, the other’s processes accommodate one another | The owner’s case, U45 of the exchange of 2026-10-17, worked by A45 as Person A (“repeated escalation”) and Person B (“local coordination”) on one writing project. Both exert real effort and produce work of equal quality; only the route by which conflict is settled differs. It is the variation CASE-013 and CASE-051 lack: there one writer’s effort varies across afternoons, here effort in the work is held high in both. It is used for CLAIM-358. Stipulated, so it shows what the claim distinguishes, not that people differ this way. | Active |
| CASE-128 | The voluntary delegation: a person gives a friend the password to a distracting application during a calm period and is refused it later under temptation, while another person lives under the same restriction imposed without consent | A18’s CASE C in the exchange of 2026-10-22, from the owner’s request for cases on quiet subordinate processes (U18). A restriction on a constituent process can be an exercise of self-governance, not its defeat, so a non-domination test that counts every override as domination is too simple. Not shown: where a legitimate precommitment ends and an unaccountable one begins. | Active |