Awareness Tenure

A reified situation of an agent BEING IN a given awareness mode OVER a bounded interval — a sleep episode, a focus or meditation session, a machine serving window or training run. Specialises gmeow:TimeScopedRelation (temporal slice): the awareness state holds only across the span it scopes. It carries the experiencer (gmeow:awarenessSubject → gmeow:Agent), the state (gmeow:awarenessMode), the span (gmeow:duringInterval → gmeow:TimeInterval), and the optional arousal (gmeow:awarenessLevel and/or gmeow:awarenessScalar). Tenures may nest — a gmeow:modeREM sub-tenure within a night's gmeow:modeAsleep tenure.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:AwarenessTenure as a specialized kind of gmeow:TimeScopedRelation. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Ai Inference Regime

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/awareness/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — an AI agent's operational-state regime, the Principle-5 bridge.
# The same gmeow:AwarenessTenure machinery that records a human's sleep records a
# machine's operational state: a live serving window (gmeow:modeOnlineInference),
# a weight-updating training run (gmeow:modeTraining), and a free-running generative
# pass (gmeow:modeSampling), each scoped to a temporal interval and each carrying a
# continuous gmeow:awarenessScalar (a temperature-like regime value). These machine
# modes are SIBLINGS of the human modes in ONE open vocabulary, bridged to human
# waking / dreaming / mind-wandering by ANALOGY, NOT by equivalence (no owl:sameAs,
# no owl:equivalentClass) — substrate-specific realisations of the awareness faculty.

# --- A live serving window — online inference, the machine analogue of waking. A
#     claim formed within this tenure can record that it was formed during live
#     serving (operational-state provenance for the agent-memory flagship).
ex:servingTenure a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    rdfs:label "a live serving window"@en ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeOnlineInference ;
    gmeow:awarenessScalar  0.7 ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:requestInterval .

Sleep Episode

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/awareness/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — a human night's sleep. An agent's awareness state over a night
# is reified as a gmeow:AwarenessTenure (gmeow:modeAsleep, gmeow:levelUnresponsive)
# scoped to a temporal interval. A nested REM sub-tenure (gmeow:modeREM /
# gmeow:modeDreaming) sits within it, and a still-finer gmeow:modeLucidDreaming
# moment marks the point at which metacognition comes ONLINE during the dream —
# the lucidity seam, documented BY REFERENCE in the prose comment, with NO triple
# asserted into the metacognition namespace. No truth or reality bit anywhere:
# the dream STATE is the gmeow:modeDreaming awareness value, and the dreamt
# content's source would be a reality-monitoring matter (gmeow:contentOrigin,
# imagination slice, by reference), never a flag here.

# --- The night-long sleep tenure: an agent in a mode over an interval.
ex:lillithSleep a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith's night of sleep"@en ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeAsleep ;
    gmeow:awarenessLevel   gmeow:levelUnresponsive ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:nightInterval .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Usage Advice

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Examples