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inferring it intrudes on the person.", "Attributing thoughts can defame or stigmatize." ], "affected_parties": [ "The person whose thoughts are discussed", "People targeted by persuasion" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Each person over their own thoughts.", "master_systems": [] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q9420: thought", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9420", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Thought", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "kinds-of-thought", "name": "Kinds of thought", "description": "What sort of thinking it is.", "rationale": "Different kinds of thought have different standards of quality.", "layers": [ { "id": "kind", "name": "Kind", "description": "Reasoning, imagining, judging.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-finding", "name": "Kind of thought", "description": "The kind of thinking in question.", "questions": [ { "text": "What kind of thought is involved here?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What standard of quality applies to it?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "process", "name": "Process", "description": "Deliberate or automatic.", "findings": [ { "id": "process-finding", "name": "Mode of thinking", "description": "Whether deliberate or automatic.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this deliberate reasoning or automatic thought?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What biases are typical of that mode?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-expression", "name": "Content and expression", "description": "What is thought and how it is shared.", "rationale": "Only the expression is observable, so records hold expressions, not thoughts.", "layers": [ { "id": "content", "name": "Content", "description": "The idea or proposition.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-finding", "name": "Content of thought", "description": "The content as far as it is known.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the content of the thought, as expressed?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How faithful is the expression to the thought?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "expression", "name": "Expression", "description": "Speech, writing or action.", "findings": [ { "id": "expression-finding", "name": "Expression record", "description": "Where and how it was expressed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and how was the thought expressed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Was the expression sincere, reported or paraphrased?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "study", "name": "Study", "description": "How thought is investigated.", "rationale": "Evidence about thought comes from methods with known limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "methods", "name": "Methods", "description": "Experiment, introspection, imaging.", "findings": [ { "id": "methods-finding", "name": "Research method", "description": "The method and its limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which method produced this finding about thought?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What can that method not show?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "findings", "name": "Findings", "description": "What is established.", "findings": [ { "id": "findings-finding", "name": "Established findings", "description": "Results and their replication.", "questions": [ { "text": "How well replicated is this finding?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which findings are contested?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-privacy", "name": "Attribution and privacy", "description": "Saying what others think.", "rationale": "Attributing thoughts to people is an inference with ethical limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution", "name": "Attribution", "description": "Claims about what someone thinks.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-finding", "name": "Attribution evidence", "description": "The evidence behind an attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what evidence is a thought attributed to this person?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How should uncertainty in that attribution be stated?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "privacy", "name": "Privacy", "description": "Protection of mental life.", "findings": [ { "id": "privacy-finding", "name": "Protections", "description": "Legal and ethical protections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which protections apply to inferring someone thoughts?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "When must an agent decline to infer?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should the registry separate thought as activity from thought as content?", "How should an agent mark inferences about what someone thinks?", "What protections should apply to inferred mental states?", "The registry entry has merged aliases about pandemic responses; 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