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Terminology Freeze

Status: working freeze for Phase H/I preparation Content canon status: unset Applies to: Telic Field Papers F.1–F.11 and reviews G.1–G.12

This freeze prevents terminology drift while preserving explicit provisional status where the research remains unsettled.

Freeze levels

FROZEN
PROVISIONAL
QUALIFIED
LINEAGE ONLY
RETIRED

• FROZEN — use consistently in the next branches.
• PROVISIONAL — retain for testing; do not present as settled field terminology.
• QUALIFIED — use only with an explicit modifier or scoped definition.
• LINEAGE ONLY — preserve in historical notes or essays, not technical specification.
• RETIRED — do not use in current architecture.

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Core concepts

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | telos | FROZEN | An end-relative orientation or condition that makes possible states non-equivalent for a center. Do not equate with attractor, metric, reward, or universal purpose. | | telic field | FROZEN | The local, changing structure in which possible states matter differently to a center of standing, including goals, boundaries, protected conditions, avoided states, costs, uncertainty, and possible routes. Not a physical field. | | teleological field | QUALIFIED | Explanatory or essay-language synonym for telic field. Prefer telic field in technical prose. | | center of standing | FROZEN | A person, community, role, institution, or affected center whose conditions or consequences must remain represented for the action at issue. The standing type must be qualified where ambiguity matters. | | standing | QUALIFIED | Default: constitutional representation requirement. Use legal standing, operational standing, temporal standing, or internal representational standing where applicable. | | constitutional standing | FROZEN | Requirement that a materially affected center or protected condition remain represented before a loop legitimately acts. | | operational standing | FROZEN | Recognized capacity of a role, institution, relational field, or continuing loop to participate in governance. Does not imply moral personhood. | | internal representational standing | FROZEN | Representation of an internal orientation, embodied signal, or temporal state inside person-level governance. Does not create an independent person. | | telic projection | FROZEN | A scoped, attributable, correctable representation of part of a telic field for a particular relation or action. | | receiver mirror | FROZEN | A receiver's current interpretation of a projection or trace. It remains attributable to the receiver until confirmed or otherwise authorized. | | projection integrity | FROZEN | Adequacy of source, scope, evidence status, uncertainty, authority, and correction for the action a projection is asked to govern. | | telic integrity | FROZEN | Preservation of the legitimate reason, protected conditions, and authority for acting through transformation and time. | | semantic integrity | FROZEN | Action-relative preservation of material meaning, source relation, scope, uncertainty, standing, and correction through transformation. | | temporal integrity | FROZEN | Preservation of valid relations among history, authority, consent, state, consequence, succession, correction, and release. |

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Relation and loop concepts

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | dyad | QUALIFIED | Minimum analytic cut for distinct local standing, projection, interpretation, and relational consequence. Not a proven universal atom or isolated pair. | | relational telic field | PROVISIONAL | Emergent end-relative structure of a relation. It can create consequence before it creates legitimate authority. | | derived loop | FROZEN | A recurring organization whose operation or identity depends upon prior, lower, or outer loops. Derived does not mean unreal or inferior. | | higher loop / outer loop | FROZEN | A loop that contains, governs, funds, constrains, receives value from, or otherwise affects a local loop. Must not imply moral superiority. | | constitutional substrate | FROZEN | Material, semantic, relational, institutional, telic, and capacity conditions required for a loop to remain coherent without systematic standing loss or coercive compensation. | | telic compatibility | FROZEN | Ability of a form or loop to preserve intended purpose, standing, authority, correction, and substrate in a receiving field. | | telic incompatibility | FROZEN | Inability to sustain the intended loop without systematic coercion, drift, extraction, or substrate depletion. | | telic transplant failure | FROZEN | Failure of an imported form to establish the intended operative loop in a receiving field. | | constitutional substrate mismatch | FROZEN | Absence or incompatibility of governance, standing, capacity, or repair conditions required by a loop. | | teleological graft rejection | LINEAGE ONLY | Evocative origin metaphor. Avoid in technical or public claims where biological or cultural-purity readings may arise. | | constitutional fork | PROVISIONAL | Lineage-preserving separation of legitimately incompatible paths with explicit allocation of assets, records, standing, and obligations. | | dissolution | FROZEN | Governed end of a loop's recruitment and authority, including residual state, obligations, witness, and bounded aftercare. | | aftercare loop | PROVISIONAL | Narrow successor loop responsible for claims, archives, repair, monitoring, or residual duties after dissolution. |

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Self and time

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | constitutional self | FROZEN | Person-level governance model for several internal orientations, embodied signals, and temporal states under one sovereign person. Not a discovery of internal plurality and not a clinical diagnosis. | | person-level sovereignty | FROZEN | The person remains the primary constitutional unit over internal representations. No internal orientation or model becomes an independent sovereign by default. | | executive authority | FROZEN | Bounded capacity to select or perform action for the person or loop. Executive control is not identical to selfhood. | | internal consent | QUALIFIED | Adequate internal representation and non-erasure for person-level action; not literal contracting among separate persons and not unanimity. | | temporal standing | FROZEN | Requirement that temporally displaced states, successors, or future affected centers remain represented when current action materially constrains what they will inherit. | | temporary governor | QUALIFIED | Explanatory metaphor for present authority over conditions future states will inherit. Not a legal fiduciary classification. | | inherited authority | FROZEN | Authority carried from earlier decisions, consent, roles, or commitments, subject to scope, context, continuity, review, and release. | | versioned consent | FROZEN | Consent state preserved with scope, version, valid time, transaction time, revision, withdrawal, and downstream-use history. | | future possibility | FROZEN | Protected capacity for later states to choose or revise where current uncertainty and irreversibility make option preservation material. Not a duty to preserve every option. |

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Context and semantic trail

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | context carrying capacity | FROZEN | Active capacity of a loop to preserve relevant plurality, contradiction, provenance, uncertainty, and standing at the resolution required for legitimate next action. A profile, not a universal scalar. | | effective standing | FROZEN | Standing actively represented or reliably recoverable in the current decision context. Loss of effective standing does not erase constitutional standing. | | semantic trail | FROZEN | A persistent difference produced or preserved through prior activity that can become meaningful through later uptake and reorganize navigation among possibilities. | | semantic field | QUALIFIED | In this series only: the distributed, revisable ecology of traces, conventions, artifacts, relations, and interpretive practices through which prior distinctions become available to later navigation. Always include or link the scoped definition. | | semantic-trail ecology | PROVISIONAL | Preferred narrow alternative where semantic field would create disciplinary ambiguity. Recommended for public technical explanation. | | semantic durability | FROZEN | Persistence and potential reactivation of a trace. Does not imply integrity or legitimacy. | | semantic inheritance | FROZEN | Receipt of language, categories, records, institutions, and traces not created by the receiving center, with continuing rights of reinterpretation, correction, refusal, and release. | | semantic witness | FROZEN | Source and transformation lineage sufficient to inspect how a trace entered action. Does not prove truth or consent. | | semantic trajectory | FROZEN | Versioned sequence by which a source expression becomes extracted, normalized, summarized, retrieved, interpreted, and acted upon. | | semantic commons | FROZEN | Shared semantic resources governed through contribution, custody, access, attribution, correction, privacy, maintenance, and succession. Not unrestricted openness. | | semantic enclosure | PROVISIONAL | Asymmetric control over shared semantic resources that materially removes contributor standing, correction, portability, or viable exit. | | semantic pollution | QUALIFIED | Traces or amplification patterns that materially degrade legitimate orientation. Never use to classify dissent merely because it disrupts consensus. | | semantic sedimentation | LINEAGE ONLY / PROVISIONAL | Metaphor for training or institutional layering that compresses traces and loses direct source visibility. Use only with explanation. |

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Navigation and decision

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | polytely | FROZEN / ESTABLISHED | Presence or interaction of multiple goals or ends. | | polytelometry | PROVISIONAL | Disciplined effort to make relations among several ends, sources, authority, standing, consent, and consequences legible. Not a promise of one quantitative unit. | | polytelometric navigation | FROZEN FOR SERIES | Governance process for admitting, classifying, generating, testing, gating, selecting, witnessing, and revising routes among plural ends. Not a universal decision rule. | | field class | FROZEN | One of: shared, compatible, conditional, conflicting, protected, unresolved, missing-standing, or released. | | protected condition / protected field | FROZEN | Condition unavailable for ordinary tradeoff under current authority. Must carry source, scope, temporal validity, and review path. | | missing-standing field | FROZEN | A materially affected center or condition is not adequately represented. Do not encode as a zero weight. | | route | FROZEN | Candidate sequence of actions, conditions, cost bearers, gates, review, reversibility, exit, and residual state—not endpoint alone. | | cost-bearer map | FROZEN | Explicit representation of who bears direct cost, risk, labor, uncertainty, surveillance, opportunity loss, repair, lock-in, and residual harm. | | no-decision state | FROZEN | Explicit result such as defer, refuse, pause, narrow, escalate, fork, or declare no adequate route. It still carries consequences. | | representation fairness | PROVISIONAL | Quality of source recognition, minority preservation, correction opportunity, uncertainty visibility, and resistance to order or articulation bias. | | decision witness | FROZEN | Source, rule, route, dissent, authority, action, and consequence record sufficient for later review and repair. |

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Model-mediated systems

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | semantic polytelometry | PROVISIONAL / SERIES CORE | Governed architecture that maintains several partially expressed ends long enough for their owners to inspect, correct, coordinate, and navigate them. Not mind reading or a latent model property. | | semantic navigator | FROZEN FOR MODEL ROLE | Model or system that assists orientation among projections, trails, arguments, and routes without owning the field or decision. | | non-sovereign model | FROZEN | Model whose role, data access, tools, and authority remain external, scoped, inspectable, correctable, revocable, and contestable. | | model role | FROZEN | Declared function such as extract, structure, retrieve, compare, generate, challenge, mediate, recommend, witness, or execute. Role does not imply permission or authority. | | model constitution | FROZEN | Deployed rules and limits governing model behavior. Distinct from the specific Constitutional AI training method. | | provider teloi | FROZEN | Provider purposes materially shaping retention, moderation, routing, tool use, ranking, refusal, training, or monetization. Record operative disclosed purposes; do not speculate about hidden motives. | | constitutional retrieval | PROVISIONAL | Retrieval policy that prioritizes active boundaries, corrections, revocations, authority, protected conditions, dissent, and stop conditions in addition to relevance. | | participant recognition | FROZEN | Opportunity for a represented center to confirm, qualify, reject, restrict, or mark uncertainty in a model representation. | | false attunement | PROVISIONAL | Perceived recognition or independent support created by adaptive agreement, sycophancy, or stylistic fit without adequate source or evidence. | | model plurality | FROZEN DISTINCTION | Several model instances or agents. It never implies standing plurality by itself. | | human re-entry | FROZEN | Practical intervention with source access, semantic trajectory, time, competence, authority, and viable ability to pause, alter, reverse, or escalate an action. | | meaningful human control | QUALIFIED / ESTABLISHED | Use established term with source. Semantic legibility is necessary but not sufficient. |

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Training governance

| Term | Status | Frozen definition or rule | |---|---|---| | training recruitment | FROZEN | Transfer of semantic, human, material, and institutional capacity into a model-development outer loop. | | training authority | FROZEN | Legal, contractual, individual, collective, community, public, fiduciary, or other legitimate basis governing a source's use in training. Consent is one authority class. | | consentfully trained model | PROVISIONAL | Qualified, auditable training-lineage profile. Never a binary badge and never a claim that every source used individual opt-in consent. | | source standing | FROZEN | Material source interests in privacy, attribution, benefit, community authority, confidentiality, correction, withdrawal, restriction, and harmful use. | | preference provenance | FROZEN | Population, recruitment, task, policy, alternatives, disagreement, aggregation, adjudication, protected objections, and gaps underlying preference training. | | restriction propagation | FROZEN | Preservation of license, consent, authority, community, privacy, withdrawal, and benefit obligations through collection, transformation, training, derivation, and succession. | | withdrawal ladder | FROZEN | Distinct states from collection stop and source deletion through future exclusion, retrieval blocking, approximate unlearning, retraining, and model retirement. | | unlearning | QUALIFIED / ESTABLISHED | Technical removal claim. Always state method, evaluation, threat model, retained utility, and residual uncertainty. Never use as synonym for source deletion. | | synthetic-data lineage | FROZEN | Generator, version, source lineage, policy, filtering, proportion, recursive depth, and contamination/diversity evaluation for generated training data. | | benefit governance | FROZEN | Rules for attribution, compensation, shared infrastructure, public or collective benefit, governance rights, and dispute. Benefit does not purchase unlimited authority. | | training/operation separation | FROZEN INVARIANT | Training-lineage legitimacy and deployment legitimacy are separate profiles; neither substitutes for the other. |

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Retired or prohibited shortcuts

Do not use these as unqualified claims:

true telos
the model understands the whole field
the human reward function
AI consensus
public data is free data
deletion means forgetting
aligned with humanity
the algorithm decided
human in the loop
ethical dataset
objective weights
the optimal route
internal parts consented
future generations consented

Replace each with the source, role, authority, status, or decision rule actually supported.