{ "model": { "rank": 6547, "code": "thing-q186446", "model_id": "vr.tr.telekinesis", "name": "telekinesis", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and evaluate claims or fictional instances of moving physical objects through mental intention without treating an attributed ability as an established mechanism.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q186446/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.telekinesis", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q186446", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186446", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:58:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08864-50d2-7222-8345-b6b2f11a0987\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: telekinesis\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: XCT.QLT\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 188 things:\n# Batch 006: 1001 regi", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 59.8, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08864-50d7-75f1-9ae3-9f67ff1faad8\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: telekinesis\nRegistry id: vr.tr.telekinesis\nPlane / domain: XCT / XCT.QLT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q186446", "registryId": "vr.tr.telekinesis", "name": "telekinesis", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q186446/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.telekinesis", "name": "telekinesis", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and evaluate claims or fictional instances of moving physical objects through mental intention without treating an attributed ability as an established mechanism.", "definition": "Telekinesis is the purported ability to move or otherwise physically affect objects by mental action alone, without an established physical means of interaction, and has not been established as a reliably reproducible phenomenon.", "scope_statement": "This model owns telekinesis as a proposed or represented capacity for mental intention to cause physical object motion, including its definition, attributed capabilities, demonstrations and evidential status.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions specifying how mental intention allegedly causes object motion", "Claims, demonstrations and fictional depictions of telekinetic movement", "Attributed targets, ranges, forces, precision and constraints", "Controls and evidence needed to evaluate particular demonstrations", "Distinctions between observed movement, causal attribution and established capability" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Telepathy and other proposed transfers of information between minds", "Clairvoyance, precognition and perception without ordinary sensory access", "Psychokinesis claims involving no object motion, except to clarify their relationship to telekinesis", "Brain-computer interfaces and other instrument-mediated control technologies", "Stage illusion methods as a general craft", "Diagnosis of people reporting unusual experiences" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The asserted outcome is physical object motion or position change; acquiring information alone does not qualify.", "Mental intention is attributed causal responsibility; unexplained movement without that attribution is insufficient.", "The claimed causal route excludes ordinary bodily manipulation and instrument-mediated commands, even when those alternatives might explain a demonstration.", "A fictional occurrence establishes something within a specified narrative setting, not a real-world capability.", "Broader uses of psychokinesis qualify here only insofar as the particular claim concerns object motion." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Discourse context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "empirical claim | personal report | fictional depiction | hypothetical proposal | ambiguous", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the agent should evaluate evidence, document testimony or check consistency with narrative rules." }, { "name": "Intention-to-motion attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified intending subject linked to a specified target movement", "why_it_matters": "Separates a telekinesis claim from movement that is merely unexplained." }, { "name": "Claimed causal route", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "direct mental action | proposed intermediary | unspecified; record excluded ordinary routes", "why_it_matters": "Makes the claim testable and distinguishes it from technological remote control." }, { "name": "Target and movement type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "target identity and material; translation | rotation | suspension | trajectory alteration | other specified motion", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what must be observed and which alternative causes require investigation." }, { "name": "Target mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, with measurement method and uncertainty; unknown where unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Constrains interpretation of the claimed movement and any force estimate." }, { "name": "Subject-target separation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m, with geometry, barriers and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Records the claimed operating distance and opportunities for ordinary interaction." }, { "name": "Motion response", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "displacement in m, rotation in rad, onset latency in s and acceleration in m/s² where measurable", "why_it_matters": "Replaces impressions of movement with an explicit outcome tied to an intention interval." }, { "name": "Claim assessment state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | insufficiently specified | under evaluation | ordinary cause identified | unresolved | supported under stated protocol | contradicted under stated protocol", "why_it_matters": "Allows bounded conclusions without turning unexplained motion or a single result into proof of an ability." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a report by its target movement, intention attribution and empirical or fictional context.", "Translate a claimed ability into a predefined target, intention interval and measurable motion outcome.", "Identify ordinary causal routes that a demonstration must monitor or exclude.", "Compare intention trials with suitable control trials under a documented protocol.", "Update the assessment of a particular claim while preserving observations, limitations and competing explanations.", "Check whether a fictional use follows the telekinetic capabilities and limits established for its setting." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-claim-boundaries", "name": "Meaning and claim boundaries", "description": "Specify what telekinesis means in the account being modelled and which causal assertion makes it telekinetic.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, so an agent must make the adopted meaning explicit without silently merging neighbouring concepts.", "layers": [ { "id": "motion-centred-definition", "name": "Motion-centred definition", "description": "Identify the physical change and distinguish telekinesis from other attributed mental capacities.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualifying-object-motion", "name": "Qualifying object motion", "description": "Record the account's definition, its authority and the kinds of movement it includes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this account require displacement, or does it also include rotation, suspension and changes to an existing trajectory?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualifying-object-motion-q01" }, { "text": "Which source adopts this definition, and how does it distinguish telekinesis from broader psychokinesis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualifying-object-motion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mental-causation-boundary", "name": "Mental causation boundary", "description": "Capture why the movement is attributed to intention and which intermediaries the claim permits.", "findings": [ { "id": "claimed-intention-pathway", "name": "Claimed intention pathway", "description": "Separate the asserted mental cause from bodily action, ordinary remote control and unspecified causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What links the subject's particular intention to the target's particular movement in this account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "claimed-intention-pathway-q01" }, { "text": "Would movement produced through a sensor, actuator or other proposed intermediary still qualify under the adopted definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claimed-intention-pathway-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attributed-motion-capability", "name": "Attributed motion capability", "description": "Describe the target movements and operating limits asserted for a telekinetic subject.", "rationale": "An agent needs a bounded capability description to distinguish a specific claim from an unrestricted assertion of mental power.", "layers": [ { "id": "targets-and-kinematics", "name": "Targets and kinematics", "description": "Record what allegedly moves and the measurable form of that movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-motion-profile", "name": "Target motion profile", "description": "Describe target mass, support conditions, initial state and requested trajectory.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the target's mass, material, support conditions and initial motion before the attempt?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "target-motion-profile-q01" }, { "text": "What displacement, rotation or suspension duration constitutes success, and how precisely must it match the intended movement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "target-motion-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operating-limits", "name": "Operating limits", "description": "Represent claimed dependencies on distance, access, attention and simultaneous targets.", "findings": [ { "id": "capability-envelope", "name": "Capability envelope", "description": "Record asserted limits separately from limits demonstrated in a test or established in a story.", "questions": [ { "text": "What limits are asserted for distance, target mass, barriers, visibility and number of simultaneous targets?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "capability-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which limits come from measured attempts, subject testimony or explicit rules of a fictional setting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "capability-envelope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "demonstration-and-causal-controls", "name": "Demonstration and causal controls", "description": "Define how an alleged intention-driven movement can be observed and tested against alternative causes.", "rationale": "Object motion alone does not identify its cause; assessment requires controls tailored to the target and apparatus.", "layers": [ { "id": "intention-trial-design", "name": "Intention trial design", "description": "Connect predefined intentions to motion measurements and suitable comparison periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "predefined-motion-test", "name": "Predefined motion test", "description": "Specify success criteria before observing results and retain the full sequence of attempts.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are target, direction, intention interval and success threshold fixed before each attempt?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "predefined-motion-test-q01" }, { "text": "How will intention trials be compared with randomized control intervals while retaining failed attempts and limiting observer cueing?", "kind": "action", "id": "predefined-motion-test-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ordinary-motion-pathways", "name": "Ordinary motion pathways", "description": "Examine environmental forces, hidden manipulation and recording artifacts relevant to the demonstration.", "findings": [ { "id": "alternative-cause-controls", "name": "Alternative-cause controls", "description": "Document which alternative routes to apparent or actual movement were checked and which remain available.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are contact, concealed attachments, airflow, vibration, surface tilt, thermal effects and electric or magnetic forces monitored where relevant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "alternative-cause-controls-q01" }, { "text": "What apparatus inspection, continuous recording and independent access would distinguish physical movement from hidden actuation or a recording artifact?", "kind": "action", "id": "alternative-cause-controls-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-contextual-judgement", "name": "Evidence and contextual judgement", "description": "Assess what a report establishes in its own context and what conclusions an agent may draw.", "rationale": "A testimony, controlled observation and fictional event require different forms of judgement and must not be promoted into interchangeable evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "empirical-evidence-status", "name": "Empirical evidence status", "description": "Track source access, repeatability, uncertainty and the scope of empirical conclusions.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-causal-assessment", "name": "Bounded causal assessment", "description": "Keep observed motion, association with intention and causal explanation as separate assessment steps.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are original recordings, calibration records, trial counts and analysis decisions available, and has an independent team repeated the specified test?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-causal-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish movement, an association with intention or a causal conclusion, and which unresolved alternatives limit the assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-causal-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fiction-and-report-handling", "name": "Fiction and report handling", "description": "Interpret narrative events and personal accounts without confusing their status with experimental findings.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-bound-conclusions", "name": "Context-bound conclusions", "description": "Anchor each conclusion to the narrator, witness, work or test record that supports it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the event a witness's interpretation, an explicitly depicted fictional ability or an empirical claim, and which source fixes that context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "context-bound-conclusions-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent document the report, seek testable details, assess experimental evidence or check the event against the fictional setting's established limits?", "kind": "action", "id": "context-bound-conclusions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "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": [ "No sense was supplied; this description assumes the conventional paranormal meaning rather than a particular fictional ability.", "Terminology overlaps with psychokinesis; distinctions such as macro- and micro-psychokinesis should not automatically be treated as varieties of telekinesis.", "This is a recall-based description, not a source review; specific experimental claims and assessments of their reproducibility require verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of telekinesis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "A concept investigated in parapsychology through tests of claimed mental influence on physical objects or systems.", "A fictional ability used in literature, film, games and other narrative media.", "An apparent effect simulated in stage magic and mentalism; such performances do not establish paranormal causation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of telekinesis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Apparent object movement can result from unnoticed contact, airflow, vibration, electrostatic forces or magnetic forces.", "Inadequate controls can allow deliberate trickery or inadvertent experimenter influence.", "Selective reporting, multiple testing and publication bias can make chance results appear evidential.", "Presenting an unexplained event as proof of mental causation confuses absence of an explanation with evidence for a specific explanation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of telekinesis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "psychokinesis", "difference": "Often used synonymously, but in narrower usage telekinesis concerns object movement while psychokinesis includes other purported mental effects on physical systems." }, { "name": "telepathy", "difference": "Telepathy concerns purported communication between minds, whereas telekinesis concerns purported influence on physical objects." }, { "name": "levitation", "difference": "Levitation describes suspension or raising against gravity; telekinesis specifies an alleged mental cause and can include movements other than lifting." }, { "name": "brain-computer interface", "difference": "A brain-computer interface uses measured neural activity, signal processing and physical actuators to control devices, providing an identifiable physical pathway." }, { "name": "stage magic", "difference": "Stage magic can produce the appearance of movement by thought through performance techniques; the appearance alone does not establish telekinesis." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of telekinesis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference definitions should anchor this registry entry, particularly where telekinesis and psychokinesis are treated as synonyms or as narrower and broader concepts?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "What does a review of primary studies and independent replications establish about particular telekinesis claims and their methodological limitations?", "Should deformation, self-levitation and prevention of otherwise expected movement count as telekinesis under this entry's adopted boundary?", "How should reports that attribute movement to unconscious mental activity be represented alongside claims requiring deliberate intention?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 12, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a telekinesis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and evaluate claims or fictional instances of moving physical objects through mental intention without treating an attributed ability as an established mechanism.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a telekinesis, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one telekinesis from another, and a telekinesis from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a telekinesis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a telekinesis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a telekinesis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a telekinesis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a telekinesis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a telekinesis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a telekinesis sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a telekinesis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a telekinesis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a telekinesis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a telekinesis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a telekinesis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a telekinesis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a telekinesis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a telekinesis passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a telekinesis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a telekinesis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a telekinesis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a telekinesis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a telekinesis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a telekinesis is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a telekinesis, 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 telekinesis, 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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis?", "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 telekinesis?", "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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a telekinesis, 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 telekinesis, 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 telekinesis 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 telekinesis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a telekinesis, 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 telekinesis, 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 telekinesis 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 } } } }