awareness scalar

• CURIE: gmeow:awarenessScalar
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/awarenessScalar
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/awareness
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

A continuous, normalised arousal / vigilance value in [0.0, 1.0] — 0.0 unresponsive, 1.0 hyperalert. The continuous sibling of the named gmeow:awarenessLevel ladder, used when a graded scalar is available rather than (or alongside) a discrete rung — a vigilance index for a human, or a temperature-like sampling-regime value for a machine (gmeow:modeSampling). The DOMAIN is left OPEN, exactly as the awareness edges. NOT functional: distinct vantages may record distinct scalars.

Structure

Property shape: datatype property; ? -> xsd:decimal

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:awarenessScalar from ? to xsd:decimal when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

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

Ai Inference Regime

• Source: slices/core/awareness/examples/ai-inference-regime.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-awareness-examples-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 .

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a continuous, normalised arousal or vigilance value — a vigilance index for a human, or a temperature-like sampling regime for a machine in gmeow:modeSampling / gmeow:modeOnlineInference; the fine-grained companion of the named gmeow:awarenessLevel.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it as a confidence or truth measure (those are separate axes), and avoid values outside [0.0, 1.0]; for a discrete clinical rung use gmeow:awarenessLevel instead of, or alongside, the scalar.

How to use

• Attach a single xsd:decimal in [0.0, 1.0] to the experiencer or its gmeow:AwarenessTenure; map 0.0 to gmeow:levelUnresponsive and 1.0 to gmeow:levelHyperalert when correlating to the named ladder.

Scope notes

• Continuous companion of the named ladder (Principle 9): gmeow:awarenessScalar carries a normalised 0.0–1.0 arousal value, where gmeow:awarenessLevel carries a named ordinal rung; supply either, or both (the scalar refines the named level). It is an experiencer-state value, never a confidence or a truth measure.

Examples

• ex:servingTenure gmeow:awarenessScalar 0.7.