Awareness Level
- CURIE:
gmeow:AwarenessLevel - IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/AwarenessLevel
- Category: class
- Defined by:
gmeow:slices/awareness - Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)
The graded level of arousal or vigilance — how alert the experiencer is, on an ordinal ladder from hyperalert down to unresponsive. A value vocabulary (individuals, never subclasses) of six rungs (gmeow:levelHyperalert … gmeow:levelUnresponsive), each carrying an integer gmeow:levelRank (5 high → 0 low) for ordering. The named, ordinal companion of the continuous gmeow:awarenessScalar; distinct from gmeow:AwarenessMode, which names the qualitative STATE rather than its arousal intensity.
Structure
Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue
Practical Pattern
Use gmeow:AwarenessLevel as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.
Usage Advice
Use when
- Use as the value vocabulary for the graded arousal of an experiencer — the named rungs of the alertness ladder a
gmeow:AwarenessTenureor agent declares throughgmeow:awarenessLevel, when a discrete clinical-style level is wanted rather than a continuousgmeow:awarenessScalar.
Avoid when
- Avoid subclassing it to add a rung (members are individuals) and avoid using it for the qualitative STATE (that is
gmeow:AwarenessMode); for a continuous normalised arousal value usegmeow:awarenessScalarinstead of, or alongside, the named level.
How to use
- Reference a seeded level individual via
gmeow:awarenessLevel; read the ordering offgmeow:levelRank(high arousal = high rank); pair with or substitute the continuousgmeow:awarenessScalarwhen a finer-grained value is available.
Scope notes
- Ordinal arousal, distinct from mode (Principle 9):
gmeow:AwarenessLevelgrades HOW alert an experiencer is, wheregmeow:AwarenessModenames WHICH state it is in — agmeow:modeAsleepagent carriesgmeow:levelUnresponsive, agmeow:modeFocusedagentgmeow:levelAlert, and the two axes co-apply. The lowest rungs (gmeow:levelObtunded,gmeow:levelUnresponsive) map to the Glasgow Coma Scale by reference; the ranks order the rungs without asserting a metric scale.