Definition
Given a will-organization W (TERM-023), its jurisdiction is the set of action-generating regimes (TERM-019) whose practical efficacy W governs. These are the regimes for which W maintains the conditions under which they acquire, retain, lose or alter efficacy. A regime is inside the jurisdiction if changing W changes when that regime acts. It is outside if W’s changes leave it untouched.
On CLAIM-170 version 2, a willed agent (TERM-048) at a level is the jurisdiction of a will-organization. Its boundary is where governance stops. Agents in general are identified otherwise (TERM-044).
What it is not
- Not TERM-017’s jurisdiction. That jurisdiction is a relation inside a will-organization: which constraints count as applicable to a case. This term names the extent of the whole organization’s governance over regimes. The words overlap because the second is the outer limit of the first: no constraint can be applicable to a regime outside the organization’s reach.
- Not influence. A regime that changes what the person does without being governed by W is an input to the jurisdiction, not part of it. The microbiome is the case (CASE-047): it can drive hunger, but nothing in the person’s will-organization governs when it does.
- Not the operative will. That is whichever regime is acting now, and it changes with the drive profile (TERM-051).