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.
Emotion and affect — emotions, feelings and affect — what they are, their bodily and neural basis (including the homeostatic and interoceptive states feelings are said to report), their role in decision, memory and behaviour, and whether they ground consciousness (group: philosophy; ADR-014).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-076 v2 | goal-conduciveness valence, organizational: a regime in which the negotiation among a system’s perspectives has, approximately, a potential, an ordering of the system’s own states by their bearing on its maintenance along which the moves that win its conflicts are improvements, persisting and restored after interruption; signed by whether the system runs ahead of or behind a reference course along that potential, and as intense as the negotiation’s decisions follow it rather than any rival ordering | The owner’s reframing of 2026-10-23: appraisal as the negotiation among competing perspectives, “common currency” as the negotiation admitting an (at least instantaneous) ordering, read in the ordinal sense (TERM-077), and hedonic valence as “a circumstance in which a particular kind of ordering dominates the dynamics”. Potential is read through Frijda’s three marks of control precedence (THEORY-055); the kind of ordering is one over the system’s own states by their bearing on its maintenance. Functional: it says nothing about whether the regime is felt. | Proposed |
| TERM-077 v2 | ordinal potential: of a negotiation over a finite set of options in a window of time, an ordering of the options that every move winning one of its conflicts climbs; it exists exactly when the wins never cycle, which is ordinal extendibility, that some complete ordering agrees with every win, and not observed comparability, since pairs never contested are not compared; and it is fixed only up to a class: every strictly increasing transform of one is one, and on a sparse record several orderings can be | The first level of the hierarchy the review of PR #327 proposed: ordinal coherence. Separated from the Hodge decomposition, which measures cardinal inconsistency and can reverse an ordinal comparison (CLAIM-434, part 4), and from a real-valued currency (CLAIM-436). | Active |
| TERM-078 v3 | persistent potential: an ordinal potential of a negotiation that is the same, up to its class, across successive windows of time, that decides the conflicts it bears on (priority), and towards which the dynamics climb again after a perturbation (resumption); exact when no move outside a perturbation descends it, and then a Lyapunov function of the one-move-at-a-time dynamics, and approximate when some do, and then no Lyapunov function, short of a drift condition that needs a cardinal potential and further assumptions | The second level of the hierarchy the review of PR #327 proposed, which the review called “dynamical ascendancy”. Named for the potential rather than reviving “ascendancy”, which the record retired the same day (TERM-076). It reads Frijda’s three marks of control precedence (THEORY-055) as properties of an ordinal potential over time. | Active |
| TERM-094 | action readiness, with control precedence, in Frijda’s sense: a state of preparation for action, not a representation of a desirable state, that claims control over behaviour by persisting until an end state, resuming after interruption, capturing attention and taking priority over other actions | Filed by the status review of 2026-10-27 (ADR-057). THEORY-055 had eight dependents, the most of any Proposed THEORY after one, and most of them used only this concept: CLAIM-039 says THEORY-055 “supplies the Frijda characterization the claim depends on (a mode of action readiness), not evidence”. The concept is Frijda, Ridderinkhof and Rietveld’s (LIT-540, read in full in NOTE-433). It is separable from the contested part of THEORY-055, that an appraisal of concern pertinence elicits the emotion and that emotion categories differ by mode of readiness, which THEORY-057’s constructionism denies. A constructionist can use this term. Adopted on filing, because the record already relies on it in nine places and its definition is quoted from a source read in full. | Active |