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the threshold for calling that composite a cyborg remains an explicit modelling decision.", "in_scope": [ "The living organism and technological components participating in the composite", "The evidence and criteria establishing functional integration", "Functions produced, restored, modified, or supported through that integration", "Biological-technical interfaces and their current condition", "Control authority, experienced agency, and intervention permissions", "Dependencies and transitions associated with maintenance, disconnection, replacement, or removal" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The organism's complete anatomy, medical history, or species description", "Standalone device specifications and manufacturing processes", "Ordinary tool use without qualifying functional integration", "Entire communication networks or service organisations supporting components", "Purely artificial robots without a living organism", "General legal personhood or ownership rules beyond their recorded application to the composite" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a living organism participating in the composite; biological appearance alone does not distinguish a cyborg from a robot.", "Identify a technological component and the organism-level function it participates in; mere proximity or carriage is insufficient under the working boundary.", "Document an ongoing bodily or operational coupling; implantation alone does not establish functional integration.", "Describe what changes in the coupled function when the component is disconnected, disabled, or removed, using existing evidence where testing would be unsafe.", "For wearables, prostheses, and temporary support systems, apply an explicit integration threshold and retain a disputed classification when the evidence does not resolve it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Constituent organism", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to the living organism participating in the composite", "why_it_matters": "Anchors the composite to a living participant without assuming that participant is human." }, { "name": "Cyborg classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Qualifies under stated criterion | does not qualify | disputed | undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Makes the contested integration boundary explicit." }, { "name": "Integrated technological components", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Component references with inclusion rationale and integration interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates constituents of the composite from nearby tools and supporting infrastructure." }, { "name": "Coupling mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Mechanical | electrical | chemical | sensory | computational | other documented mode; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Identifies how biological and technical processes affect one another." }, { "name": "Functional contribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Component-to-organism function relationship, including restoration, substitution, support, or augmentation where evidenced", "why_it_matters": "Explains what the integration accomplishes without assuming all cyborg technology enhances capability." }, { "name": "Dependence on integration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented effects of loss: no demonstrated effect | reduced function | loss of function | threat to viability | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Constrains disconnection and maintenance decisions." }, { "name": "Interface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Within documented operating bounds | degraded | failed | unassessed, per interface", "why_it_matters": "Locates problems at the coupling rather than attributing every problem to the organism or device alone." }, { "name": "Coupled response delay", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Milliseconds or seconds, with stimulus, response, operating mode, and measurement conditions", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of time-sensitive coupled functions when response delay is relevant." }, { "name": "Control allocation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Function-to-controller mapping covering organism, onboard automation, external operator, and shared control", "why_it_matters": "Shows who or what can initiate, modify, or stop a function." }, { "name": "Intervention authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor-to-permitted intervention relationship, with consent or other authority basis, conditions, and expiry", "why_it_matters": "Separates technical ability to intervene from permission to do so." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a candidate organism-technology composite meets a stated cyborg boundary.", "Trace an observed capability or impairment through its biological and technical contributors.", "Compare interface observations with documented operating limits and flag unresolved conditions.", "Determine whether a proposed control change is technically supported and authorised.", "Assess the documented consequences and prerequisites of maintenance, disconnection, or component replacement.", "Record changes to composite membership and function while preserving the organism's continuity." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "clynes-kline-1960", "title": "Cyborgs and Space - Astronautics (American Rocket Society), September 1960", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Origin of the word and the technical definition: a self-regulating man-machine system that can live in otherwise hostile environments without constant conscious adaptation." }, { "id": "haraway-1991", "title": "A Cyborg Manifesto, in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women - Routledge, 1991 (essay first in Socialist Review, 1985)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The non-engineering sense of cyborg as a hybrid social and bodily identity, which must not be collapsed into implant hardware." }, { "id": "clark-2003", "title": "Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence - Oxford University Press, 2003", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The cognitive-science claim that humans already incorporate tools into the mind-body system, and the distinction between that claim and implanted medical devices." }, { "id": "iso-14708-1", "title": "ISO 14708-1, Implants for surgery - Active implantable medical devices - Part 1 - International Organization for Standardization", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The actual product class that real-world medical cyborgs are built from: active implants, their safety marking, and manufacturer information." }, { "id": "eu-mdr-2017-745", "title": "Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices - Official Journal of the European Union", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/745/oj", "what_it_supports": "How the European Union governs the devices (not a legal status of 'cyborg') that create clinical cyborg couplings, including active implants.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "gray-1995", "title": "The Cyborg Handbook - Routledge, 1995, ed. Chris Hables Gray", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Survey of engineering, military, medical, and cultural uses, and the split between organism-plus-machine and purely fictional types." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "composite-boundary", "name": "Composite boundary", "description": "Establishes which living and technological participants constitute this cyborg.", "rationale": "A cyborg model must distinguish integrated technology from equipment merely used or carried by an organism.", "layers": [ { "id": "living-participant", "name": "Living participant", "description": "Identifies the organism around which the composite is recognised.", "findings": [ { "id": "organism-anchor", "name": "Organism anchor", "description": "Record the participating organism and the evidence supporting its identification as the living constituent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which living organism anchors this composite, and how is it identified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "organism-anchor-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or record supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "organism-anchor-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "integration-membership", "name": "Integration membership", "description": "Determines which technological components belong within the composite boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-inclusion-test", "name": "Functional inclusion test", "description": "Record the adopted integration criterion and its application to each candidate component.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bodily or operational coupling makes this component part of the composite rather than a carried tool?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "functional-inclusion-test-q01" }, { "text": "Which worn, implanted, remote, or temporary components remain outside or disputed under that criterion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "functional-inclusion-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coupled-function", "name": "Coupled function", "description": "Explains what biological and technological 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"text": "What current observations show the condition of the biological side, technical side, and connection between them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coupling-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented interface conditions require adjustment, specialist assessment, or suspension of a coupled function?", "kind": "action", "id": "coupling-integrity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "control-and-agency", "name": "Control and agency", "description": "Identifies how coupled functions are directed and whose authority governs intervention.", "rationale": "Technology integrated with an organism can make device commands consequential for bodily action, perception, or support.", "layers": [ { "id": "control-pathways", "name": "Control pathways", "description": "Maps sources of commands, feedback, and override for each coupled function.", "findings": [ { "id": "command-and-override", "name": "Command and override", "description": "Record how organism-generated input, automation, and external 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"text": "What consent or other applicable authority permits this specific intervention, and what limits apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "bodily-intervention-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "integration-continuity", "name": "Integration continuity", "description": "Tracks how the composite persists through adaptation, servicing, and component changes.", "rationale": "Maintaining integrated technology may interrupt organism-level functions or change the relationship between organism and component.", "layers": [ { "id": "adaptation-and-maintenance", "name": "Adaptation and maintenance", "description": "Captures ongoing requirements for sustaining the coupled function.", "findings": [ { "id": "sustained-coupling-requirements", "name": "Sustained coupling requirements", "description": "Record power, consumables, calibration, training, and external support required by the integration where applicable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recurring resources or activities sustain this 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the original 1960 sense)", "neural cyborg (stable coupling to the nervous system: deep-brain stimulation, brain-computer interface)", "enhancement cyborg (function pushed past the typical human range rather than restored)", "wearable or exoskeletal cyborg (disputed: worn robots counted only on a loose definition)", "non-human cyborg (animals or insects with telemetry, stimulation, or control implants)", "science-fiction cyborg (cultural type: partly organic, partly machine person)", "theoretical or political cyborg (Haraway: hybrid identity, not a hardware inventory)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cyborg this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Library of 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a cyborg, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a living organism with functionally integrated technology, assess the state of that integration, and determine which interventions are feasible and authorised.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Bio-Intelligent Cyborg Insect.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "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 cyborg, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Bio-Intelligent Cyborg Insect" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one cyborg from another, and a cyborg 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg 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 cyborg 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg 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 cyborg from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a cyborg is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a cyborg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a cyborg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a cyborg and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cyborg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a cyborg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a cyborg is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cyborg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a cyborg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a cyborg is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a cyborg is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cyborg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a cyborg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a cyborg moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a cyborg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a cyborg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a cyborg 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 cyborg 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 cyborg between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg 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 cyborg, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cyborg 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What cyborg is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of cyborg, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate cyborg from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish cyborg from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What cyborg does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does cyborg pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of cyborg judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where cyborg lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of cyborg, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does cyborg hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cyborg 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 cyborg and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg 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 cyborg is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cyborg, 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 cyborg, 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 cyborg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }