{ "model": { "rank": 6268, "code": "thing-q625143", "model_id": "vr.tr.ecstasy", "name": "ecstasy", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise and describe a reported episode of ecstasy, assess the person's present agency and support needs, and determine appropriate responses without imposing an interpretation.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q625143/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "glossolalia", "xenoglossy", "Shamvara", "Wajd" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q625143", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q625143", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:30:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00334764, "turns": 1, "seconds": 20.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 68.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c0f-372f-7333-814d-f58ae9aad9dd\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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overwhelming positive experience, potentially involving absorption, felt transcendence or altered self-awareness; the registry must confirm this experiential sense because no definition is recorded.", "in_scope": [ "The person's account of overwhelming joy, bliss, rapture or felt transcendence", "The episode's onset, course, recurrence and return toward the person's usual state", "Changes in attention, self-awareness and experienced connection to surroundings", "The person's ability to communicate preferences, orient themselves and choose actions during the episode", "Reported triggers, setting, interpretation and immediate consequences" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Ecstasy as a street name for a substance, including its composition and distribution", "Religious doctrines or verification of supernatural claims", "Clinical diagnoses, including assessment of sustained mood syndromes", "Sexual acts, orgasm and reproductive physiology as independently modelled events", "The music, ritual, meditation or other activity associated with the episode" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Distinguish an ecstatic episode from ordinary pleasure by asking whether the person experienced a marked departure from their usual positive feelings; do not impose an unsupported numerical threshold.", "Distinguish ecstasy from flow by recording whether overwhelming joy or rapture was present, rather than inferring ecstasy from absorbed task performance.", "Distinguish ecstasy from trance by establishing positive experiential quality independently of altered attention or responsiveness.", "Distinguish an ecstatic experience from use of a substance called ecstasy by recording the reported experience separately from any exposure.", "Distinguish ecstasy from orgasm or a religious experience by allowing overlap while requiring separate evidence for each description." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Basis for identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-described ecstasy; description consistent with working scope; observer-attributed; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates the person's identification from an agent's provisional interpretation." }, { "name": "Experienced intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Person-selected rating with scale anchors and comparison to their usual positive experience", "why_it_matters": "Records exceptional intensity without assuming that ratings are comparable across people." }, { "name": "Experiential quality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Person's terms, optionally including joy, bliss, rapture, awe, transcendence or mixed feelings", "why_it_matters": "Preserves distinctions that an intensity score alone would conceal." }, { "name": "Episode phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "emerging; ongoing; subsiding; ended; retrospectively reported; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an immediate interaction from later reflection." }, { "name": "Episode duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds, minutes or hours, with estimated bounds and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Helps delimit the episode and compare it with the person's broader course." }, { "name": "Experienced self-boundary", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "usual; diminished; absent by report; otherwise changed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Captures reported self-transcendence without making it mandatory or treating it as an external fact." }, { "name": "Available agency", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ability to communicate preferences, understand the immediate situation and initiate or stop actions, each recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Guides interaction without equating intense happiness with either incapacity or consent." }, { "name": "Associated context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to preceding or concurrent activities, people, environments and reported substance exposures", "why_it_matters": "Supports contextual interpretation while distinguishing association from causation." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a person-led description of the episode using their preferred language.", "Compare episodes for the same person while preserving differences in setting and interpretation.", "Clarify whether the person wants quiet, company, interruption or practical assistance.", "Adjust interaction to the person's expressed preferences and demonstrated ability to engage.", "Link the episode to separately modelled activities, exposures or assessments without asserting causation.", "Arrange an agreed later check-in about the episode's meaning and consequences." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "ecstatic-experience", "name": "Ecstatic experience", "description": "The experiential evidence supporting an ecstasy description.", "rationale": "Ecstasy cannot be established from visible excitement or an evocative setting alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "rapture-and-intensity", "name": "Rapture and intensity", "description": "How the person characterises the positive experience and its exceptional quality.", "findings": [ { "id": "reported-ecstatic-quality", "name": "Reported ecstatic quality", "description": "Record the person's terms and the basis for distinguishing this episode from ordinary enjoyment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What words does the person use for the experience, and do they accept the description ecstasy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reported-ecstatic-quality-q01" }, { "text": "How intense was it relative to their usual joy or pleasure, using their own comparison or anchored scale?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reported-ecstatic-quality-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "absorption-and-self-experience", "name": "Absorption and self-experience", "description": "Reported changes in attention, self-boundaries and connection.", "findings": [ { "id": "experienced-transcendence", "name": "Experienced transcendence", "description": "Record any felt unity, self-forgetting or altered awareness without requiring these features or endorsing a metaphysical explanation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the person describe altered self-boundaries, felt unity or absorption, and what did those descriptions mean to them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "experienced-transcendence-q01" }, { "text": "Was overwhelming positive feeling present, or is the evidence limited to absorption or altered awareness?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "experienced-transcendence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-course", "name": "Episode course", "description": "The temporal boundaries and personal trajectory of the ecstatic experience.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish a bounded episode from a retrospective label or a broader continuing change.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-and-continuity", "name": "Onset and continuity", "description": "When the experience began and whether it remained continuous.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-boundaries", "name": "Episode boundaries", "description": "Record approximate onset, ending and interruptions, preserving uncertain or altered time perception.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did the experience begin and end, and were there distinct waves or interruptions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which timing details come from felt duration, later recollection or an external observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "episode-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "return-and-recurrence", "name": "Return and recurrence", "description": "How the episode relates to the person's usual state and previous experiences.", "findings": [ { "id": "personal-course", "name": "Personal course", "description": "Record what resolved, what persisted and whether the person recognises a recurring pattern.", "questions": [ { "text": "What indicates that the ecstatic episode ended, and which feelings or changes continued afterward?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "personal-course-q01" }, { "text": "How does this episode compare with previous self-identified episodes in duration, intensity and aftermath?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "personal-course-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "agency-during-ecstasy", "name": "Agency during ecstasy", "description": "The person's practical ability and preferences while the experience is occurring.", "rationale": "Overwhelming positive experience does not by itself establish willingness, responsiveness or ability to make a particular decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "contact-and-choice", "name": "Contact and choice", "description": "Whether and how the person can engage with an agent during the episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "expressed-preferences", "name": "Expressed preferences", "description": "Record communication and decision-specific engagement separately from smiling, exuberance or apparent bliss.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the person communicate whether they want the interaction to continue, change or stop?", "kind": "action", "id": "expressed-preferences-q01" }, { "text": "What supports their agreement to the particular proposed action, beyond an observer's impression that they are happy?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "expressed-preferences-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "immediate-support", "name": "Immediate support", "description": "Practical needs when rapture or absorption competes with attention to surroundings.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-response", "name": "Preferred response", "description": "Record requested support and concrete difficulties without treating ecstasy itself as a problem.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person prefer uninterrupted space, quiet company, help reorienting or another response?", "kind": "action", "id": "preferred-response-q01" }, { "text": "Is there an observed difficulty attending to the immediate situation that requires a separate support or safety response?", "kind": "action", "id": "preferred-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context-and-meaning", "name": "Context and meaning", "description": "The episode's associations, interpretation and consequences in the person's life.", "rationale": "Similar descriptions of rapture can occur in different contexts and carry different meanings, which should not be collapsed into a presumed cause.", "layers": [ { "id": "eliciting-context", "name": "Eliciting context", "description": "Reported circumstances preceding and accompanying the episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "associated-conditions", "name": "Associated conditions", "description": "Record links to activities, environments, relationships or exposures, including who proposed each association.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was happening before and during the episode, and who reported those circumstances?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "associated-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Is a proposed trigger merely temporally associated, repeatedly associated by the person, or supported by separate causal evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "associated-conditions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-aftermath", "name": "Interpretation and aftermath", "description": "What the person believes the episode meant and how they wish to respond afterward.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-owned-meaning", "name": "Person-owned meaning", "description": "Preserve spiritual, aesthetic, relational or other interpretations as attributed accounts, alongside unresolved or unwelcome consequences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What meaning does the person assign to the episode, and does that differ from interpretations offered by others?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "person-owned-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "What follow-up, if any, does the person want concerning lingering feelings, changed commitments or difficulties after the episode?", "kind": "action", "id": "person-owned-meaning-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) as the primary psychoactive substance", "Ecstasy tablets/pills sold as branded pressed tablets of variable composition", "Crystalline MDMA (\"Molly\") sold as powder or crystals", "Adulterated or mis-sold products containing other stimulants or new psychoactive substances" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of ecstasy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does this registry entry denote an ecstatic experience, the substance name ecstasy, or another sense within ACT.ACT?", "What researched boundary should distinguish ecstasy from intense joy, bliss, rapture and euphoria, and which neighbouring concepts already have authoritative models?", "Are altered self-boundaries or transcendence defining features in the intended usage, optional features, or separate experiences?", "Which ways of recording intensity and duration are defensible across people and cultural contexts without implying unsupported comparability?", "What evidence is sufficient for provisional identification when a first-person account is unavailable, and when should the experience remain unclassified?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 9, "questions": 17 } }, "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 ecstasy, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise and describe a reported episode of ecstasy, assess the person's present agency and support needs, and determine appropriate responses without imposing an interpretation.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: glossolalia, xenoglossy, Shamvara, Wajd.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 61 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 ecstasy, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "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": [ { "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": [ "glossolalia", "xenoglossy", "Shamvara", "Wajd" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 ecstasy from another, and a ecstasy 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ecstasy 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a ecstasy 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy?", "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 ecstasy?", "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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 ecstasy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ecstasy, 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 ecstasy, 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 ecstasy 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 } } } }