GMEOW Awareness Module

• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/awareness
• Tier: core
• Group: core

What This Slice Covers

This slice owns 31 terms and contributes 3 mapping or projection rows. Use it when its terms match the native fact you want to preserve; use the linkage tables to see how those facts leave GMEOW for consumer vocabularies.

Dependencies

• gmeow:slices/kernel
• gmeow:slices/temporal

Consumers

• AI operational-state provenance and human consciousness modelling (Principle 15) — a stored claim can record the operational state of the experiencer that formed it: was it formed during gmeow:modeOnlineInference (live serving) versus gmeow:modeOfflineReplay (offline rumination over logged context) or gmeow:modeTraining, and at what sampling regime (gmeow:awarenessScalar)? The human face models consciousness, sleep staging, meditation, and clinical arousal (gmeow:levelObtunded / gmeow:levelUnresponsive mapping to the Glasgow Coma Scale by reference); a gmeow:AwarenessTenure pins each state to a temporal interval (temporal slice). Dreaming and lucidity compose here by reference: gmeow:modeLucidDreaming is gmeow:modeDreaming with metacognition (gmeow:MetacognitiveState) online, documented at the seam, never re-minted.

Local Map

Examples

Ai Inference Regime

• Source: slices/core/awareness/examples/ai-inference-regime.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:Agent, gmeow:AwarenessTenure, gmeow:TimeInterval, gmeow:awarenessMode, gmeow:awarenessScalar, gmeow:awarenessSubject, gmeow:duringInterval, gmeow:endedAtTime, gmeow:hasTemporalFrame, gmeow:modeOnlineInference
• External prefixes: owl, xsd

# 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.

@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#> .

# --- The machine experiencer. An AI agent is a gmeow:Agent like any other.
ex:lillith a gmeow:Agent ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith (AI agent)"@en .

# --- 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 .

ex:requestInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    rdfs:label "the request window"@en ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-16T14:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-16T14:00:03Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

# --- A weight-updating training run — the machine analogue of a developmental /
#     consolidative state, with no clean single human counterpart.
ex:trainingTenure a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    rdfs:label "a fine-tuning run"@en ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeTraining ;
    gmeow:awarenessScalar  0.5 ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:trainingInterval .

ex:trainingInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    rdfs:label "the training window"@en ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-14T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-15T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

# --- A free-running generative pass — sampling from latent space, the machine
#     analogue (by analogy, not equivalence) of human mind-wandering / imagining,
#     the regime where the temperature-like gmeow:awarenessScalar bites hardest and
#     confabulation risk is highest.
ex:samplingTenure a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    rdfs:label "a free-running sampling pass"@en ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeSampling ;
    gmeow:awarenessScalar  0.95 ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:samplingInterval .

ex:samplingInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    rdfs:label "the sampling window"@en ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-16T15:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-16T15:00:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

Sleep Episode

• Source: slices/core/awareness/examples/sleep-episode.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:Agent, gmeow:AwarenessTenure, gmeow:MetacognitiveState, gmeow:TimeInterval, gmeow:awarenessLevel, gmeow:awarenessMode, gmeow:awarenessSubject, gmeow:contentOrigin, gmeow:duringInterval, gmeow:endedAtTime
• External prefixes: xsd

# 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.

@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#> .

# --- The experiencer.
ex:lillith a gmeow:Agent ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith"@en .

# --- 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 .

ex:nightInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    rdfs:label "the night of 2026-06-15"@en ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-15T23:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-16T07:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

# --- A nested REM sub-tenure: rapid-eye-movement sleep, the vivid-dreaming stage.
#     The same agent, two co-applying modes (REM stage + dreaming), a shorter span
#     contained within the night interval.
ex:lillithREM a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith's REM episode"@en ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeREM , gmeow:modeDreaming ;
    gmeow:awarenessLevel   gmeow:levelUnresponsive ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:remInterval .

ex:remInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    rdfs:label "a REM period within the night"@en ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-16T04:10:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-16T04:35:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

# --- A still-finer lucid-dreaming moment within the REM episode. gmeow:modeLucidDreaming
#     is, BY REFERENCE (the lucidity seam, Principle 6), gmeow:modeDreaming with
#     metacognition (gmeow:MetacognitiveState, metacognition slice) ONLINE — the
#     dreamer realises she is dreaming. That metacognitive composition is documented
#     in PROSE ONLY; no triple is asserted into the metacognition namespace here.
ex:lillithLucid a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith's lucid moment"@en ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeLucidDreaming ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:lucidInterval .

ex:lucidInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    rdfs:label "the lucid moment within REM"@en ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-16T04:20:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-16T04:23:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

Terms

Classes

Properties

Individuals

Linkages

• Rows: 3
• Projection profiles: -
• External vocabularies: prov, snomed

Guide

Awareness

The awareness slice adds the third orthogonal axis of mind. Where the imagination slice carries the content axis (WHAT is entertained) and the attitude verbs of epistemics and imagination carry the attitude axis (HOW it is held), awareness carries the state-of-the-experiencer axis: the operational mode of consciousness or processing — waking, asleep, focused, drowsy, dreaming — within which any content or attitude occurs. It is the load-bearing Principle-5 human↔machine bridge: a single open vocabulary holds the human awareness modes beside the machine operational modes as siblings, so a stored claim can record whether it was formed during live online-inference or offline replay, exactly as a human memory can record whether it was formed awake or in a dream.

The state-of-the-experiencer axis

A model of mind that records only what an agent entertains and how it holds it cannot represent the state the agent is in while doing so. The same proposition believed while alert and awake and believed while drowsy and sedated is the same content under the same attitude — but the awareness state differs, and for provenance that difference matters. Awareness is therefore orthogonal to both content and attitude: it answers neither what nor how but in what state of the experiencer.

Awareness modes (the bridge)

gmeow:AwarenessMode

gmeow:AwarenessMode is a value vocabulary (gufo:AbstractIndividualType ⊑ gufo:QualityValue) whose members are individuals, never subclasses (Principle 9, the gmeow:ContentOrigin idiom). One open vocabulary holds the human and machine modes as siblings, bridged by analogy, never by an asserted owl:sameAs / owl:equivalentClass / rdfs:subClassOf (Principle 5).

Human modes

Machine modes — the Principle-5 bridge

The machine modes are substrate-specific realisations of the awareness faculty, not asserted equal to the human ones (umbrella guardrail). The analogue column is documented in prose; no equivalence triple is minted. gmeow:awarenessMode (open domain, range gmeow:AwarenessMode) marks an experiencer with its state, and is non-functional and vantage-indexed (Principle 9): a self-reported mode and an observer-attributed mode for the same span coexist, whose attribution rides gmeow:accordingTo.

The arousal ladder and the scalar

gmeow:AwarenessLevel · gmeow:awarenessScalar

gmeow:AwarenessLevel is a second value vocabulary grading how alert the experiencer is, on an ordinal ladder ordered high→low by an integer gmeow:levelRank:

The two lowest rungs (gmeow:levelObtunded, gmeow:levelUnresponsive) map to the Glasgow Coma Scale by reference. gmeow:levelRank orders the rungs without asserting a metric scale; for a continuous, normalised [0.0, 1.0] arousal value (a vigilance index for a human, a temperature-like sampling regime for a machine) use the gmeow:awarenessScalar datatype property, supplied instead of or alongside the named level.

gmeow:AwarenessLevel (which state of arousal) is distinct from gmeow:AwarenessMode (which state): a gmeow:modeAsleep agent carries gmeow:levelUnresponsive, a gmeow:modeFocused agent gmeow:levelAlert, and the two axes co-apply.

The awareness tenure (reification)

gmeow:AwarenessTenure

gmeow:AwarenessTenure reifies an agent being in a mode over a bounded interval — a sleep episode, a focus session, a serving window. It specialises gmeow:TimeScopedRelation from the temporal slice, carrying 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). The subject is carried by a per-branch bearer edge (gmeow:awarenessSubject, Principle 4) — not gufo:inheresIn, an alignment target this slice never asserts (Principle 5).

ex:lillithSleep a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeAsleep ;
    gmeow:awarenessLevel   gmeow:levelUnresponsive ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:nightInterval .

ex:lillithREM a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;     # a nested sub-tenure
    gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode    gmeow:modeREM , gmeow:modeDreaming ;
    gmeow:duringInterval   ex:remInterval .

ex:nightInterval a gmeow:TimeInterval ;
    gmeow:hasTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:startedAtTime "2026-06-15T23:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:endedAtTime   "2026-06-16T07:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime .

Tenures nest: a gmeow:modeREM sub-tenure sits within a night's gmeow:modeAsleep tenure. Each gmeow:TimeInterval carries its gmeow:hasTemporalFrame and xsd:dateTime bounds to satisfy the frame-relativity gate (Principle 11).

The lucidity seam (by reference)

gmeow:modeLucidDreaming is documented by reference (Principle 6) as the composition of two states already modelled elsewhere: it is gmeow:modeDreaming with metacognition online — gmeow:MetacognitiveState (the metacognition slice) active during a dreaming episode. The seam is named in prose; no triple is asserted into the mentation or metacognition namespaces, exactly as the dreaming act (gmeow:processDreaming, the mentation slice) is consumed by reference rather than re-minted. This is the composition point for the dreaming & lucidity work.

No truth or reality bit

Awareness is a state of the experiencer, never a verdict on the content entertained within it. There is no isReal / isTrue / isDream property: dreamt content is not "false" by virtue of the dream mode — its source is a reality-monitoring matter (gmeow:contentOrigin, imagination, by reference), and the dream state is the gmeow:modeDreaming awareness value. The experiencer-state axis (awareness), the content-source axis (origin), and any truth axis stay separate.

SSSOM alignments (mappings/equivalences.ttl)

The external frameworks — NSWO sleep/wake staging, SNOMED CT consciousness concepts, the Glasgow Coma Scale, and PROV for the AI regimes — are named in prose, with a few deliberately low-confidence skos:relatedMatch rows: gmeow:modeAsleep to a sleep/wake concept, gmeow:levelUnresponsive to a coma-scale concept, and gmeow:modeOnlineInference to prov:Activity. All alignments are by reference (Principle 5); GMEOW imports no external axiom.

Dependencies

sliceDependsOn lists only kernel and temporal — the asserted foreign IRIs are gmeow:Agent (the range of gmeow:awarenessSubject, kernel) and gmeow:TimeScopedRelation / gmeow:duringInterval / gmeow:TimeInterval / gmeow:hasTemporalFrame / gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian (the reification seam, temporal). mentation (gmeow:processDreaming), metacognition (gmeow:MetacognitiveState), and imagination (gmeow:contentOrigin) are all consumed by reference (prose only, no asserted triples into those namespaces), so the slice stays DL-clean standalone.

Verified by construction

tests/test_awareness.py pins the term set, the value-vocab discipline (individuals, never subclasses), the rank set {0,1,2,3,4,5}, the OPEN domains of the awareness edges, the gmeow:AwarenessTenure ⊑ gmeow:TimeScopedRelation reification, the absence of any truth/reality bit or gufo:inheresIn usage, and the manifest's sliceDependsOn = {kernel, temporal}. The two examples/ graphs — a human sleep episode and an AI inference regime — load and validate against the merged SHACL shapes.