Mental Moment

The umbrella category of all agent mental states — intrinsic modes inhering in exactly one agent that constitute its cognitive / doxastic / conative life: knowing (cognition's gmeow:CognitiveState), believing (epistemics' doxastic states), and desiring/intending (teleology's gmeow:IntentionalMode). A NAMED class so a consumer can query ALL of an agent's mental moments uniformly (the agent-memory flagship, Principle 15) and the schema surface projects a single mental-state parent. Never instantiated directly.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:IntrinsicMode

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:MentalMoment as a specialized kind of gufo:IntrinsicMode. 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.

Abduction

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/inference/> .
@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 — ABDUCTION (inference to the best explanation), the FULL CHAIN.
#
# This example exercises all three fidelity tiers and the endurant/occurrent
# split end to end:
#
#   gmeow:InferenceProcess  --hasInferenceCommitment-->  gmeow:InferenceCommitment
#       (the occurrent reasoning episode)                  (the endurant argument)
#            |                                                   |
#       producesMentalMoment                               conclusion
#            v                                                   v
#       the accepted belief        is the agent's attitude    gmeow:StandpointClaim
#       (gmeow:MentalMoment)        toward the winning ------> (the conclusion content)
#                                   hypothesis
#
# A clinician observes a fever and reasons to its best explanation. Two
# candidate hypotheses compete (gmeow:competesWith); each is scored by a
# solver-layer gmeow:explanatoryScore (Principle 12 — there is no isBest bit).
# The winner's modality is promoted gmeow:conceivable -> gmeow:probable; the
# loser is SUPPRESSED (gmeow:displayable false), never deleted (Principle 10).

# --- The mental moment the reasoning produces (endurant doxastic mode) ------- #
# Distinct from the StandpointClaim conclusion (ex:hypInfluenza, the content the
# commitment concludes): this is the clinician's NEW belief — a gmeow:MentalMoment,
# the moment the reasoning episode brings into being. Its bearer is the process's
# gmeow:experiencer (ex:clinician); typed without asserting inherence (gufo:inheresIn
# is the alignment target, not an asserted axiom — Principle 5).
ex:beliefInfluenza a gmeow:MentalMoment ;
    rdfs:label "The clinician's belief that the patient has influenza"@en .

Mental Timeline

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/mentation/> .
@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 small mental timeline for one agent.
#
# Three mental occurrents illustrate the mentation slice's core idioms:
#   1. A gmeow:MentalProcess of type processPerception — Ada notices morning light.
#      Carries a temporal frame the same way gmeow:Event takes one (events idiom,
#      gmeow:eventTime + gmeow:eventTemporalFrame), and MANIFESTS a perceptual
#      capacity via gmeow:realizesMentalMoment (ontological participation bridge).
#   2. A gmeow:MentalProcess of type processReasoning — Ada works through a proof.
#      gmeow:producesMentalMoment points at ex:beliefQEDholds — the reasoning CREATES
#      a new belief that did not exist beforehand (a gmeow:MentalMoment).
#   3. A gmeow:Experience (the phenomenal subset of MentalProcess) of type
#      processDreaming — Ada's dream last night. gmeow:Experience is used because
#      there is something it is like to undergo a dream (the qualia-bearing subset).
#
# All three are borne by exactly one experiencer (gmeow:experiencer is functional);
# gmeow:mentalProcessType is non-functional, so a process can carry multiple types.

# The bridge target: a gmeow:MentalMoment (the intrinsic perceptual mode). Its
# bearer is the process's gmeow:experiencer (ex:ada); like the cognition idiom
# (ex:adaPythonKnowing a gmeow:CognitiveState) the mode is typed without asserting
# inherence — gufo:inheresIn is an alignment target, not an asserted axiom (P5).
ex:perceivedMorningLight a gmeow:MentalMoment ;
    rdfs:label "Ada's perceptual state: morning light perceived"@en .

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