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forms of evidence and interpretation are appropriate." }, { "name": "Intervening traversal account", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "excluded by definition | shortcut or alternate route | state-transfer account | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Exposes the boundary between teleportation, unconventional travel, and transfer of state." }, { "name": "Origin outcome", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "subject persists | subject removed | subject altered | original state unavailable | unknown | not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of duplication, loss, and continuity without treating these as settled." }, { "name": "Endpoint prerequisites", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Required receiver, destination substrate, shared resources, address, preparation, or setting-specific condition", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a proposed destination and transfer attempt are feasible within the account." }, { "name": "Completion latency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds, with explicit start and completion events; unknown or not applicable permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes apparent disappearance or arrival from completion of the full process." }, { "name": "Transfer success measure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Sense-specific metric with units, threshold, uncertainty, and evaluation method", "why_it_matters": "Prevents resemblance, state fidelity, functional survival, and narrative success from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | asserted | derived under assumptions | observed under specified conditions | independently corroborated | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Limits an agent's conclusions to what the available account and evidence establish." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a teleportation claim by transferred subject, intended meaning, and claim context.", "Compare competing definitions and identify which boundary cases they include.", "Check whether a proposed transfer satisfies its endpoint and resource prerequisites.", "Evaluate an asserted arrival against explicit success criteria and alternative explanations.", "Trace origin and destination outcomes to expose duplication, loss, or unresolved continuity.", "Identify missing evidence and formulate the next discriminating question or test." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Meaning and boundaries", "description": "Establish which meaning of teleportation governs the instance and where that meaning stops.", "rationale": "The shared name can conceal materially different claims about relocation, reconstruction, and state transfer.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition-and-attribution", "name": "Definition and attribution", "description": "Record the operative definition and who uses it.", "findings": [ { "id": "operative-teleportation-sense", "name": "Operative teleportation sense", "description": "A record should specify what arrival means and attribute that interpretation rather than assume a universal definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does teleportation here mean relocation of matter, transfer of a state, reconstruction, or a rule-defined change of location?", "kind": "definition", "id": "operative-teleportation-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which author, research community, protocol specification, or fictional setting supplies that definition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "operative-teleportation-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "borderline-processes", "name": "Borderline processes", "description": "Test neighbouring processes against the selected definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "traversal-and-copying-boundary", "name": "Traversal and copying boundary", "description": "Shortcuts, hidden journeys, and remote reconstruction should be classified through explicit boundary criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would travel through a portal or alternate route qualify under this definition, and what criterion determines the answer?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traversal-and-copying-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "If a destination copy appears while the origin subject remains, does the source call this teleportation, duplication, or a failed transfer?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traversal-and-copying-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transfer-mechanism-and-dependencies", "name": "Transfer mechanism and dependencies", "description": "Describe the proposed connection between origin and destination without supplying missing mechanisms.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish the transferred subject from the signals, matter, infrastructure, or stipulated powers that enable the transfer.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject-and-carriers", "name": "Subject and carriers", "description": "Separate what is said to arrive from what physically or formally connects the endpoints.", "findings": [ { "id": "transfer-account", "name": "Transfer account", "description": "The account should identify the subject, any carriers, and unresolved explanatory steps.", "questions": [ { "text": "What precisely transfers: the originating material, an unknown state, a description used for reconstruction, or a simulated entity's location?", "kind": "definition", "id": "transfer-account-q01" }, { "text": "What crosses between the endpoints during preparation and execution, and which parts of that account are evidenced or merely stipulated?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transfer-account-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "destination-readiness", "name": "Destination readiness", "description": "Identify resources and preparation required before an arrival can occur.", "findings": [ { "id": "endpoint-resource-requirements", "name": "Endpoint resource requirements", "description": "Destination access should be evaluated through the requirements of the particular protocol or setting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Must the destination contain a prepared receiver, suitable substrate, shared entanglement, beacon, or other explicitly specified resource?", "kind": "definition", "id": "endpoint-resource-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "Which prerequisites can be verified before attempting the transfer, and what outcome is specified when one is absent?", "kind": "action", "id": "endpoint-resource-requirements-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "execution-and-validation", "name": "Execution and validation", "description": "Make transfer completion and evidential support assessable.", "rationale": "Disappearance, destination resemblance, and successful protocol completion can support different conclusions.", "layers": [ { "id": "timing-and-completion", "name": "Timing and completion", "description": "Define the interval and endpoint events used to assess the process.", "findings": [ { "id": "completion-criterion", "name": "Completion criterion", "description": "A transfer needs an explicit completion event that accounts for required destination operations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does completion require detection, reconstruction, a correction operation, restored function, or another destination event?", "kind": "definition", "id": "completion-criterion-q01" }, { "text": "What latency is measured, and does it include preparation, communication, destination processing, and confirmation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "completion-criterion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-alternatives", "name": "Evidence and alternatives", "description": "Assess observations against the claimed sense and plausible competing accounts.", "findings": [ { "id": "sense-specific-validation", "name": "Sense-specific validation", "description": "Validation should use criteria suited to the subject and distinguish demonstrated outcomes from interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations and thresholds establish success for this claim, and how are uncertainty and unsuccessful trials recorded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sense-specific-validation-q01" }, { "text": "What test distinguishes the asserted transfer from ordinary carriage, a prearranged destination substitute, copying, or an artefact of the simulation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sense-specific-validation-q02" }, { "text": "Which accessible report, derivation, protocol, or setting rule supports the asserted result?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sense-specific-validation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-transfer-consequences", "name": "Continuity and transfer consequences", "description": "Track the relation between the origin subject, destination result, and possible failed outcomes.", "rationale": "A successful destination result does not by itself settle persistence of the original, personal continuity, or recoverability.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-destination-identity", "name": "Origin and destination identity", "description": "Keep observable endpoint outcomes separate from claims about sameness.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-criterion", "name": "Continuity criterion", "description": "The record should state what persists and which criterion licenses describing the arrival as the same subject.", "questions": [ { "text": "What remains at the origin after success, and how is that outcome established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuity-criterion-q01" }, { "text": "Is sameness judged by material continuity, state correspondence, functional equivalence, personal identity, or an explicit fictional rule?", "kind": "definition", "id": "continuity-criterion-q02" }, { "text": "Which continuity claims remain interpretations even if the destination success metric is satisfied?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-criterion-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "failure-and-recovery", "name": "Failure and recovery", "description": "Describe failed or interrupted transfers in terms of both endpoints.", "findings": [ { "id": "recoverable-transfer-outcomes", "name": "Recoverable transfer outcomes", "description": "Retry and recovery decisions should depend on the known fate of the subject and consumed resources.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can failure leave the subject intact at the origin, unavailable at both endpoints, duplicated, or only partially reconstructed under this account?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recoverable-transfer-outcomes-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits retry, recovery, or termination without assuming that the original subject or state remains available?", "kind": "action", "id": "recoverable-transfer-outcomes-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", 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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 teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation 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 teleportation 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation 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 teleportation from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a teleportation, 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 teleportation, by which method, and 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between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation 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 teleportation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a teleportation 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a teleportation proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a teleportation, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a teleportation and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a teleportation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a teleportation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a teleportation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a teleportation consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a teleportation takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a teleportation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a teleportation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a teleportation 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 teleportation 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 teleportation 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 teleportation 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 teleportation 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 teleportation?", "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 teleportation?", "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 teleportation 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 teleportation and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation 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 teleportation is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a teleportation, 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 teleportation, 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 teleportation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }