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experience in which a present situation feels previously experienced despite a conflicting judgment that this familiarity is inappropriate, while recording alternative definitions and unresolved boundaries under registry entry vr.tr.d-j-vu in XCT / XCT.STA.", "in_scope": [ "Individual reports of inappropriate familiarity with a present situation", "The relationship between felt familiarity, apparent recollection and explicit novelty judgment", "Episode onset, duration, recurrence and changes in awareness", "Situational context and reported accompanying experiences", "Definitions, elicitation methods and evidential limits used to classify an experience as déjà vu" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Ordinary recognition supported by an identifiable earlier encounter", "Memory systems and theories of consciousness in their entirety", "Diagnosis and treatment of neurological or psychiatric conditions", "Dream experiences themselves, including independently modelled dream recall", "Cultural works and metaphorical uses of the phrase déjà vu", "Claims about precognition or reincarnation treated as independently established explanations" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Ask whether the current situation felt previously experienced, rather than merely similar to something familiar.", "Check whether the person simultaneously or subsequently judged the familiarity to be inappropriate; record when that judgment arose.", "Distinguish a feeling of familiarity without retrieved context from an apparent recollection containing specific earlier events.", "Check for an identifiable prior encounter that adequately explains the recognition, without assuming that failure to recall one proves novelty.", "Separate the episode from unfamiliarity toward something known, a claimed remembered dream, or a figurative complaint that events are repeating." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Classification under an explicit definition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "meets selected definition | 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"kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds or minutes, with estimated range and timing method", "why_it_matters": "Describes the episode without treating retrospective timing as precise." }, { "name": "Recurrence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "reported episode count per stated observation window, with completeness of observation", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an isolated report from a reported pattern." }, { "name": "Relation to an earlier encounter", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "documented encounter | plausible encounter | no encounter identified | not investigated", "why_it_matters": "Keeps evidence of prior exposure separate from the subjective experience." }, { "name": "Accompanying awareness and impact", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "free-text account plus explicitly reported awareness changes, distress and interruption of activity", "why_it_matters": "Supports contextual assessment without turning déjà vu into a diagnosis." } ], 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"name": "Felt prior experience", "description": "Capture the immediate quality and target of the familiarity.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-and-quality-of-familiarity", "name": "Target and quality of familiarity", "description": "Record whether familiarity concerned the whole unfolding situation, a spatial arrangement, a conversation or another specific aspect.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exactly felt previously experienced, and did that feeling include the unfolding sequence or only part of the situation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "target-and-quality-of-familiarity-q01" }, { "text": "How strong was the feeling on a scale whose wording distinguishes familiarity from belief in a real earlier encounter?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "target-and-quality-of-familiarity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conflicting-novelty-judgment", "name": "Conflicting novelty judgment", "description": "Record whether, when and why the person considered the familiarity inappropriate.", "findings": [ { 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"description": "Document the delay, prompts and operational criteria used to obtain an account.", "findings": [ { "id": "report-origin-and-operationalisation", "name": "Report origin and operationalisation", "description": "Preserve original wording and identify whether the report was spontaneous, prompted, retrospective or experimentally elicited.", "questions": [ { "text": "How soon after the episode was the account recorded, and what wording or examples were supplied before the person described it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "report-origin-and-operationalisation-q01" }, { "text": "For an experimentally elicited report, what establishes both felt prior experience and judged inappropriateness rather than familiarity alone?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "report-origin-and-operationalisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-causal-restraint", "name": "Interpretation and causal restraint", "description": "Separate the person's explanation, a research hypothesis and evidence 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"id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the experiential memory phenomenon, not the figurative use for a repeated situation.", "The listed kinds distinguish occurrence contexts rather than a universally accepted subtype taxonomy.", "Mechanisms remain debated; familiarity without recollection, processing mismatch, and memory-monitoring accounts should not be presented as one settled explanation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of déjà vu this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled 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so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a déjà vu, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a déjà vu, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a déjà vu is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What déjà vu is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of déjà vu are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is déjà vu operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of déjà vu and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of déjà vu?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as déjà vu?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a déjà vu came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a déjà vu and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a déjà vu, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a déjà vu, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a déjà vu is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a déjà vu is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a déjà vu, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a déjà vu, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a déjà vu is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }