The life syntax
It breaks up an animal's life, by whether each part of it is the animal's own or taken by use. It has 5 element types and 10 elements, and a life described in it is one choice of elements from each type.
An animal holds every part of this syntax in full. An animal free at the time has its own in every row; what it is taken from in a row is a use. From the rights position of Split-Domain Cognition's animal-rights variant: no animal captured, confined, fed, trained, tagged or rewarded, and none made to speak for people.
Instances
- Split-Domain Cognition's animal-rights variant: the rights position the syntax is read from: whether a use of an animal should exist, never how well the animal is treated inside it
Element types and elements
place holds one essential
Where the animal is.
- its own ground
- where it goes by itself, free at the time
- confined
- captured, or kept where people put it
food holds one essential
What the animal eats, and who brings it.
- found by itself
- what it finds and takes on its own
- fed
- given food by people, which ties it to them
action holds one essential
What the animal does.
- its own
- what it does of itself
- trained or rewarded
- shaped by people towards something they want
body holds one essential
The animal's body.
- unmarked
- as it is, carrying nothing people put on it
- tagged
- marked or fitted so that people can find or identify it
signal holds one essential
What the animal makes heard or seen.
- its own, read for structure
- units, sequence and rhythm, never put into human words
- translated
- turned into a human word, as if the animal were a text to be read
Left out
What an animal means, intends or feels. The syntax names what is the animal's own and what is taken by use, never what its signals mean; they are read for structure, never translated. Things and people hold no part of it: every part is the animal's.
Described in it
Nothing is described in it yet.
The syntax as data: life.json. It is read from Split-Domain Cognition each time this site is built, so the two never differ.