Lines of inquiry — A named line of the record’s own argument, so that a line can be set aside as a whole and what depends on it can be found. Retracting a line is a status change on its members, never a deletion (ADR-032).
Evidence for experience — what could show that a system, organized, non-biological or without a cortex, has experience and not only access or function, and what each kind of evidence (report, deficit, architecture, behaviour) can and cannot establish.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-072 v6 | perspective, and which sense: organizational, represented or phenomenal | The exchange on experience and interpretation used “perspective” in three senses and, by A11’s own account, slid between them. Organizational is a realized regime in which the availability, significance and efficacy of interpretations are mutually conditioned. Represented is a system’s model of its own standpoint. Phenomenal is a lived point of view. The constitutive thesis is that some organizational perspectives are phenomenal ones, so its claims must say which sense they use. Self-maintaining organizational perspective is a narrower subclass, not the definition. Adopted 2026-10-29, with character and lineage read as relations among realizations. | Active |
| TERM-073 v3 | interpretation, as a context-dependent determination of significance: a transformation that differentiates information and establishes or revises its consequences within an operative organization, defined without experience | The sense of “interpretation” in which CLAIM-412 is stated, from A7 and A11 of the exchange on experience and interpretation. An interpretation has three parts: a distinction, a context and a consequence. It is both the result and the operation, since applying it can change the state later interpretations act on, as TERM-026’s frame does. It is defined without experience, so unconscious perception, a classifier or a regulator interprets in this sense. That is the cost CLAIM-411 names. Adopted 2026-10-29, with significance kept apart from efficacy. | Active |
| TERM-082 v2 | consciousness, and which sense: phenomenal, access, self-consciousness or wakefulness | The owner’s, U12 of the exchange of 2026-10-26, quoting A11’s “None of these distinctions requires attributing consciousness, collective intention, or moral worth to the system”: “probably worth designing TERMs around these as well”. A12’s sense map, as a boundary: a claim about organization, access or self-modelling does not become a claim about experience by sharing a word with it. The senses are Block’s and the clinical one; the record reads Block in LIT-643. Proposed. | Proposed |