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| 1 | +{ |
| 2 | + "schema": "the-interdependency.domain-claim", |
| 3 | + "version": "0.1.0", |
| 4 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage", |
| 5 | + "surface_form": "psychsocio metafauna", |
| 6 | + "claiming_domain": "psychsocio-metafauna", |
| 7 | + "claimed_sense": "A substrate-portable, multiply instantiated thought-pattern lineage that preserves recognizable identity across transmission, can couple to identity-maintaining processes in hosts, and can modify host behavior in ways that affect its own persistence or reproduction.", |
| 8 | + "scope": "Social-cognitive, cultural, institutional, and agent-mediated symbolic systems; including beneficial, neutral, harmful, and mixed host-pattern relations.", |
| 9 | + "claim_type": "provisional cross-domain hypothesis", |
| 10 | + "claim_status": "stack-local research; not canon; not diagnosis; not a human classifier", |
| 11 | + "authority_source": { |
| 12 | + "kind": "operator-authored proposal", |
| 13 | + "author": "Erin Spencer", |
| 14 | + "date": "2026-09-04", |
| 15 | + "repository_record": "research/psychsocio-metafauna/", |
| 16 | + "immutable_transcript_identity": "hmmm" |
| 17 | + }, |
| 18 | + "included_uses": [ |
| 19 | + "distinguishing one symbolic instance from a pattern lineage across instances", |
| 20 | + "describing host-pattern coupling without assuming consciousness in the pattern", |
| 21 | + "testing whether specific damage topologies preferentially increase susceptibility to compatible pattern affordances", |
| 22 | + "testing nonlinear coalescence, persistence, hysteresis, reproduction, and repair", |
| 23 | + "allocating causal contribution and possible accountability among hosts, designers, amplifiers, institutions, and candidate distributed agents", |
| 24 | + "self-auditing The Interdependent Way and its implementations under the same criteria" |
| 25 | + ], |
| 26 | + "excluded_uses": [ |
| 27 | + "diagnosing a person, community, religion, ideology, or political group as infected", |
| 28 | + "inferring trauma, incapacity, hidden state, intention, or diminished accountability from belief or disagreement", |
| 29 | + "treating persuasion, adoption, conviction, reproduction, or social similarity alone as identity capture", |
| 30 | + "using UCNS geometry, EDCM readouts, model agreement, or implementation persistence as automatic proof of the theory", |
| 31 | + "targeting people by vulnerability, optimizing coercive influence, forced deconversion, or suppressing lawful belief", |
| 32 | + "claiming that a lineage possesses an accountable I merely because it has recognizable identity" |
| 33 | + ], |
| 34 | + "defined_terms": [ |
| 35 | + { |
| 36 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-instance", |
| 37 | + "sense": "One embodied registration of a lineage in speech, text, ritual, image, software, institution, model state, memory, or behavior." |
| 38 | + }, |
| 39 | + { |
| 40 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.pattern-lineage", |
| 41 | + "sense": "The recoverable invariants joining related instances across transmission, mutation, embodiment, and time." |
| 42 | + }, |
| 43 | + { |
| 44 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.host-pattern-coupling", |
| 45 | + "sense": "A relation in which a reconstructed pattern participates in a host's identity maintenance, interpretation, or policy selection." |
| 46 | + }, |
| 47 | + { |
| 48 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.identity-capture", |
| 49 | + "sense": "A proposed subtype of host-pattern coupling in which defense or reproduction of a lineage becomes bound to identity maintenance while capacities to inspect, revise, refuse, or exit are materially narrowed." |
| 50 | + }, |
| 51 | + { |
| 52 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.coalescence-site", |
| 53 | + "sense": "A compatibility relation between a host's current susceptibility topology and a lineage's affordance profile." |
| 54 | + }, |
| 55 | + { |
| 56 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.coalescence-event", |
| 57 | + "sense": "A proposed threshold crossing at which several compatible host-pattern couplings become mutually reinforcing." |
| 58 | + }, |
| 59 | + { |
| 60 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.capture-basin", |
| 61 | + "sense": "A self-maintaining host-pattern configuration that persists after the initiating exposure or condition is reduced." |
| 62 | + }, |
| 63 | + { |
| 64 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.accountable-i", |
| 65 | + "sense": "A candidate coherency state among coupled arity sets capable of not-self(self) internal modeling, integrated policy selection, counterfactual revision, and enough causal persistence for action attribution." |
| 66 | + }, |
| 67 | + { |
| 68 | + "term_id": "psychsocio-metafauna.repair", |
| 69 | + "sense": "Restoration or enlargement of inspectability, plurality, refusal, revision, safe exit, and accountable action; not compulsory abandonment of a belief." |
| 70 | + } |
| 71 | + ], |
| 72 | + "nearby_terms": [ |
| 73 | + { |
| 74 | + "term": "meme / memetics", |
| 75 | + "distinction": "Nearby transmission vocabulary; psychsocio metafauna additionally requires explicit lineage identity, host coupling, coalescence, accountability, and repair boundaries." |
| 76 | + }, |
| 77 | + { |
| 78 | + "term": "cultural attractor", |
| 79 | + "distinction": "Nearby account of recurrent cultural forms; this proposal separately models identity capture and distributed accountability." |
| 80 | + }, |
| 81 | + { |
| 82 | + "term": "ideology", |
| 83 | + "distinction": "A content or doctrine class that may instantiate a lineage but is not synonymous with the lineage relation." |
| 84 | + }, |
| 85 | + { |
| 86 | + "term": "egregore / group mind", |
| 87 | + "distinction": "Nearby folk or metaphysical vocabulary; no group consciousness is assumed." |
| 88 | + }, |
| 89 | + { |
| 90 | + "term": "pathogen / parasite", |
| 91 | + "distinction": "Ecological analogy only. Harm is a host-pattern relation, not the defining essence of every lineage." |
| 92 | + }, |
| 93 | + { |
| 94 | + "term": "collective or distributed agent", |
| 95 | + "distinction": "A possible higher-order status requiring additional evidence of boundary, memory, integrated policy, counterfactual revision, and causal persistence." |
| 96 | + } |
| 97 | + ], |
| 98 | + "known_namespace_collisions": [ |
| 99 | + { |
| 100 | + "surface": "megafauna", |
| 101 | + "boundary": "Established zoological term for large animals; not a synonym and not the intended spelling." |
| 102 | + }, |
| 103 | + { |
| 104 | + "surface": "Meta/fauna", |
| 105 | + "boundary": "Existing artistic title and ordinary meta-plus-fauna construction; no conceptual authority or identity is claimed." |
| 106 | + }, |
| 107 | + { |
| 108 | + "surface": "psychosocial", |
| 109 | + "boundary": "Established adjective. The proposal's surface form is intentionally 'psychsocio'; do not silently normalize it." |
| 110 | + }, |
| 111 | + { |
| 112 | + "surface": "I", |
| 113 | + "boundary": "Here it denotes a candidate coherency event with declared capacities, not every grammatical first-person token or persistent identity." |
| 114 | + }, |
| 115 | + { |
| 116 | + "surface": "capture", |
| 117 | + "boundary": "Here it denotes a proposed narrowing of identity-maintenance and revision capacities, not data capture, military capture, attention alone, or persuasion alone." |
| 118 | + } |
| 119 | + ], |
| 120 | + "effective_version": "0.1.0", |
| 121 | + "hmmm": [ |
| 122 | + "Canonical spelling, pluralization, and whether the directory name becomes an independent project name.", |
| 123 | + "Operational invariants sufficient to identify one lineage across substantial mutation.", |
| 124 | + "Validated separation of deep identification, adaptive commitment, dependency, and identity capture.", |
| 125 | + "The damage-affordance coupling matrix and whether susceptibility changes are directional, nonlinear, or context-specific.", |
| 126 | + "The existence, location, and hysteresis of coalescence thresholds.", |
| 127 | + "Criteria for accountable distributed I status.", |
| 128 | + "Ethically admissible empirical methods beyond synthetic and archival work.", |
| 129 | + "Exact current canonical source identity for The Interdependent Way self-audit." |
| 130 | + ] |
| 131 | +} |
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