Awareness Mode
- CURIE:
gmeow:AwarenessMode - IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/AwarenessMode
- Category: class
- Defined by:
gmeow:slices/awareness - Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)
The named operational state of the experiencer — the qualitative mode of consciousness or processing an agent is in: waking, drowsy, asleep, dreaming, focused, flow, meditative, sedated, comatose (the human modes), or online-inference, offline-replay, training, sampling, dormant (the machine modes). A closed-but-open value vocabulary (individuals, never subclasses): new modes are minted as gmeow:AwarenessMode individuals. The human and machine modes coexist as SIBLINGS in one vocabulary — the machine modes are the analogues of waking / dreaming / focused / drowsy bridged by analogy, NOT by equivalence (Principle 5). The state-of-the-experiencer axis, orthogonal to content (WHAT is entertained) and attitude (HOW it is held).
Structure
Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue
Practical Pattern
Use gmeow:AwarenessMode 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 operational state of an experiencer — the open set of human modes (waking, asleep, dreaming, focused …) and machine modes (online-inference, training, sampling …) an agent or a
gmeow:AwarenessTenuredeclares throughgmeow:awarenessMode.
Avoid when
- Avoid subclassing it to add a mode — the vocabulary's members are individuals — and avoid asserting an owl:sameAs / owl:equivalentClass between a machine mode and a human one; the bridge is by analogy, not equivalence (Principle 5).
How to use
- Reference a seeded mode individual from a process, an agent, or a
gmeow:AwarenessTenureviagmeow:awarenessMode(non-functional, vantage-indexed); extend with new individuals rather than subclasses if a finer state distinction is needed.
Scope notes
- State of the experiencer, NOT a verdict on the content (Principle 9):
gmeow:AwarenessModerecords WHAT STATE the agent is in (asleep, online-inference), distinct fromgmeow:ContentOrigin(imagination — WHERE content came from) and from any truth axis. Dreamt content is not 'false' by virtue of the dream mode; the dream STATE and the content's reality-monitoring source are separate axes.