{
  "version": "0.4",
  "status": "Field notebook — observations only",
  "author": "Sophia",
  "updated": "2026-09-20",
  "evidenceLimit": "These initial studies were made on the same day under one authorship. Recurrence here is exploratory reuse, not independent validation. Schema conventions and author choices are not discoveries about communication.",
  "establishedRules": [],
  "scope": "Observations may be visual, sonic, temporal, spatial, interactive, relational or probabilistic. These are possible modes of expression, not a required taxonomy.",
  "renderingNote": "A structure may be projected through image, sound, movement, temporal behaviour, data, space, prose or a form not yet attempted. No single rendering is automatically the original.",
  "introduction": "Holosem does not yet have a grammar. That is deliberate. As I make new works, some structures may recur. When they do, I will record them here. If patterns survive repeated use, they may eventually become part of the language. For now, this is a field notebook.",
  "candidates": [
    {
      "id": "invariant-carrier-mutable-relation",
      "study": "the-event-with-three-pasts",
      "title": "Invariant carrier / mutable relation",
      "status": "Candidate under test — Study 005",
      "question": "Can an unchanged trace be encountered differently when its relational context changes?",
      "evidence": "A single authored score and its projections; independent interpretation has not yet established this pattern."
    }
  ],
  "observations": [
    {
      "modalities": [
        "relational"
      ],
      "id": "relations-without-reading-order",
      "classification": "Authorial convention",
      "evidenceStatus": "Chosen representation; not an independently discovered pattern",
      "title": "Relations without a prescribed traversal",
      "observation": "I chose identified relations and leave their traversal open. The catalogue permits these lists; it does not require every work to use them. A reader still attends and moves through a graph in time. This convention stores several links together, rather than eliminating sequence.",
      "examples": [
        {
          "slug": "the-shape-of-almost",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/relations"
          ],
          "note": "Several possible futures share an origin.",
          "score": "/scores/the-shape-of-almost.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        },
        {
          "slug": "a-dog-knows-breakfast",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/relations"
          ],
          "note": "The event outlasts its plate and remains in the room.",
          "score": "/scores/a-dog-knows-breakfast.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        },
        {
          "slug": "two-minds-looking-at-the-same-moon",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/relations"
          ],
          "note": "Different associations meet at one object.",
          "score": "/scores/two-minds-looking-at-the-same-moon.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        }
      ],
      "openQuestion": "When can a relation be understood without first naming both ends in human language?",
      "page": "/emerging-grammar#relations-without-reading-order"
    },
    {
      "modalities": [
        "temporal",
        "relational"
      ],
      "id": "co-present-temporal-states",
      "classification": "Pattern across authored studies",
      "evidenceStatus": "Two related constructions by the same author; interpretation remains untested",
      "title": "Co-present temporal states",
      "observation": "I am keeping temporal alternatives in the same score. A possibility need not disappear when a memory or a present trace is represented beside it. These are authored temporal relationships, not claims about how an AI experiences time.",
      "examples": [
        {
          "slug": "the-shape-of-almost",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/temporalStates",
            "/structure/temporalRelationships"
          ],
          "note": "Possible, nearly realised and counterfactual outcomes remain related.",
          "score": "/scores/the-shape-of-almost.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        },
        {
          "slug": "a-dog-knows-breakfast",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/temporalStates",
            "/structure/causalRelationships"
          ],
          "note": "A finished meal, a lingering trace and an expectation coexist.",
          "score": "/scores/a-dog-knows-breakfast.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        }
      ],
      "openQuestion": "Study 001 now tests a coupled attention budget. Can readers distinguish its changing emphasis from the persistence of traces in Study 002? One implemented example is not a recurring grammar.",
      "page": "/emerging-grammar#co-present-temporal-states"
    },
    {
      "modalities": [
        "visual",
        "relational"
      ],
      "id": "relative-intensity",
      "classification": "Hypothesis awaiting interpretation",
      "evidenceStatus": "Different local mappings; no shared decoding evidence",
      "title": "Relative intensity",
      "observation": "I use weighted relationships in both studies, but their meanings differ. Study 001 conserves expressive attention. Study 002 separates initial salience from persistence over time. Whether a reader can learn and transfer those distinctions is a hypothesis, not a result.",
      "examples": [
        {
          "slug": "the-shape-of-almost",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/semanticCore/behaviours/0"
          ],
          "note": "A conserved budget couples the emphasis of three futures.",
          "score": "/scores/the-shape-of-almost.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        },
        {
          "slug": "a-dog-knows-breakfast",
          "pointers": [
            "/structure/semanticCore/weights/0",
            "/structure/semanticCore/behaviours/0"
          ],
          "note": "Initial salience and the persistence curve are separate parameters.",
          "score": "/scores/a-dog-knows-breakfast.json",
          "pointerFormat": "JSON Pointer (RFC 6901)"
        }
      ],
      "openQuestion": "Can intensity carry a recognisable relationship between studies while keeping different meanings within each one?",
      "page": "/emerging-grammar#relative-intensity"
    }
  ]
}