{
 "name": "personhood",
 "read_from": "Split-Domain Cognition",
 "slug": "personhood",
 "breaks_up": "a piece of work in which language work and judgement work are both in play, by who holds each part of it",
 "left_out": "Things are excluded: a model and code are things, so they have no personhood, and they hold a part only as tools a person set up. Animals are partially excluded: an animal holds intent, and is excluded from language, judgement and residue, because those are written or ruled, and an animal's signals are read for structure, never translated.",
 "element_types": [
  {
   "name": "intent",
   "holds": "one",
   "description": "What the work is for. It comes first and stays with the person doing the work; the sentence that states it is never a model's.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "the person",
     "description": "the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "an animal",
     "description": "the animal whose life it is; it holds its own intent, which nobody states for it, neither a model nor a person. It is partially excluded: intent is the only part it holds"
    },
    {
     "name": "other people",
     "description": "people other than the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "a model under negotiation",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: a model, holding this part only where that was negotiated and set up for this work, its answers held by code",
     "thing": true
    },
    {
     "name": "code",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read",
     "thing": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "language",
   "holds": "one",
   "description": "The language work: reading, gathering, describing, writing. It is held by people unless it has been negotiated and set up otherwise.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "the person",
     "description": "the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "other people",
     "description": "people other than the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "a model under negotiation",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: a model, holding this part only where that was negotiated and set up for this work, its answers held by code",
     "thing": true
    },
    {
     "name": "code",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read",
     "thing": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "judgement",
   "holds": "one",
   "description": "The judgement work, answerable to consistency, explicitness, reproducibility and revisability: a verdict against a standard written in advance.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "the person",
     "description": "the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "other people",
     "description": "people other than the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "a model under negotiation",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: a model, holding this part only where that was negotiated and set up for this work, its answers held by code",
     "thing": true
    },
    {
     "name": "code",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read",
     "thing": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "residue",
   "holds": "one",
   "description": "What the description handed to the judgement does not capture: named and left visible as unrated, never folded into the verdict or denied.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "the person",
     "description": "the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "other people",
     "description": "people other than the one doing the work"
    },
    {
     "name": "a model under negotiation",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: a model, holding this part only where that was negotiated and set up for this work, its answers held by code",
     "thing": true
    },
    {
     "name": "code",
     "description": "a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read",
     "thing": true
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "instances": [
  {
   "name": "Split-Domain Cognition",
   "url": "https://splitdomaincognition.org",
   "what": "the principle that language work and judgement work are unlike kinds of thinking, kept apart in the service of the intent of the person doing the work",
   "links": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Koher",
   "url": "https://koher.app",
   "what": "Split-Domain Cognition's child: free, open-source tools built on the principle",
   "links": []
  }
 ],
 "described_entities": []
}