environment
Let an agent explain environment as surroundings, relay usage across ecology, social science and computing from dictionaries and technical sources, describe the named aliases and flag them as related terms, and distinguish this sense from the natural environment as a policy field, habitat, climate and computing environments.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What environment means.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What does environment mean as surroundings, and how does it differ from the natural environment, habitat, climate and computing environments? definition
- Is the question about language, ecology, policy or computing? boundary
Aliases
Related terms.
Aliases
Aliases.
- What are an eyrie and ambience, and why are they different? definition
- Which entry fits the specific term? action
Ecology Ecological sense.
Habitat
Habitat.
Habitat
Habitat.
- How do ecologists distinguish environment, habitat and niche? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Eyries
Raptor nests.
Eyries
Eyries.
- What are eyries, and why are they legally protected in many countries? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Society Human environments.
Built
Built environment.
Built
Built.
- What is the built environment? provenance
- Which entry fits built environment? action
Ambience
Atmosphere of places.
Ambience
Ambience.
- How do designers create ambience in spaces? provenance
- Which entry fits atmosphere (architecture)? action
Context Other senses.
Policy
Environmental policy.
Policy
Policy.
- How is environment used in environmental policy and law? provenance
- Which entry fits environmental policy? action
Computing
Computing environment.
Computing
Computing.
- What is a computing or runtime environment? provenance
- Which entry fits runtime environment? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- noun.location
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.PLC
- Facets: substance
- place
- Facets: origin
- natural
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- fixed
- Facets: scale
- geographic
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry, ambiance, ambience, environs, surroundings, surround, medium, setting, scene
What it is Filled
In the WordNet sense, the area or surroundings in which something exists or lives, including the conditions and influences around it; the registry aliases include ambience or ambiance, the character or atmosphere of a place, and aerie, aery, eyrie and eyry, the nest of a bird of prey, which are specific places or qualities rather than synonyms of environment.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain environment as surroundings, relay usage across ecology, social science and computing from dictionaries and technical sources, describe the named aliases and flag them as related terms, and distinguish this sense from the natural environment as a policy field, habitat, climate and computing environments.
Distinguishing features Filled
- General surroundings
- Many specialised senses
- Aliases are related terms
- Context dependent
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Record or describe a person's private surroundings, such as their home, without consent.
- Change the conditions of a shared space without the people in it agreeing.
- Present an ambience or atmosphere as fact rather than impression.
Only with a human decision
- Changing the conditions of a space where vulnerable people live or work.
May
- Describe a person's or thing's surroundings and conditions from observation or data it may use.
- Monitor environmental conditions, such as temperature or noise, where it is authorized.
Moral aspects Filled
- Surroundings shape health and wellbeing, and unequal environments track inequality.
Who is affected
- People in the space
- Neighbours
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it as such; the occupant or operator answers for each space.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-08591861-n - registry parent class
related
- geographical area - in WordNet terms
- habitat - specialised sense
- eyrie - misfiled alias
- natural environment - policy sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.environment
- Open English WordNet: oewn-08584764-n
- WordNet: oewn-08591861-n hypernym of environment
Direct properties required Filled
- WordNet hypernym: geographical area note
- eyrie: raptor nest, often on cliffs note
- ambience: atmosphere or mood of a place note
Recognition required Filled
- Surroundings in which something exists
- Aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry, ambiance, ambience
- The natural environment is a policy domain; habitat is a species home; climate is long-term weather; computing environments are software settings
- Not a single appearance; any surroundings.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the general sense
- relay usage across fields
- describe named related terms
- distinguish specialised senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating eyrie and ambience as synonyms
- Confusing general and policy senses
- Vague answers without context
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Environmental protection laws apply to the natural environment sense
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a general concept.
- natural environment
- built environment
- social environment
- animal dwelling places such as eyries
- atmosphere or ambience
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-08584764-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: environment - word senses and usage
Open questions
- The registry aliases eyrie and ambience should be moved to their own entries
- How should dictionary sources be linked?
- Should computing environment be disambiguated?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-environment/spec.json