The personhood syntax
It breaks up a piece of work in which language work and judgement work are both in play, by who holds each part of it. It has 4 element types and 17 elements, and a personhood described in it is one choice of elements from each type.
Instances
- Split-Domain Cognition: 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
- Koher: Split-Domain Cognition's child: free, open-source tools built on the principle
Element types and elements
intent holds one
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.
- the person
- the one doing the work
- an animal
- 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
- other people
- people other than the one doing the work
- a model under negotiation thing
- 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
- code thing
- a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read
language holds one
The language work: reading, gathering, describing, writing. It is held by people unless it has been negotiated and set up otherwise.
- the person
- the one doing the work
- other people
- people other than the one doing the work
- a model under negotiation thing
- 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
- code thing
- a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read
judgement holds one
The judgement work, answerable to consistency, explicitness, reproducibility and revisability: a verdict against a standard written in advance.
- the person
- the one doing the work
- other people
- people other than the one doing the work
- a model under negotiation thing
- 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
- code thing
- a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read
residue holds one
What the description handed to the judgement does not capture: named and left visible as unrated, never folded into the verdict or denied.
- the person
- the one doing the work
- other people
- people other than the one doing the work
- a model under negotiation thing
- 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
- code thing
- a thing, not a person: rules fixed in advance as a written standard and run as a program anyone bound by them can read
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.
Described in it
Nothing is described in it yet.
The syntax as data: personhood.json. It is read from Split-Domain Cognition each time this site is built, so the two never differ.