Definition
Capacity for valenced subjective experience such as suffering or enjoyment.
Boundary
- Implies
- potential welfare interests where credible evidence exists
- Does not imply
- intelligence, agency, or self-report alone
- Evidence required
- multidisciplinary evidence, alternative explanations, persistence, and precautionary review
Provenance
- Source memory
- REP-MACHINE-GLOSSARY-001
- Source SHA-256
- d2882a8b19b40ae4a6d3a970b1264d8a164025f635cb13f7304ea179cf6f422b
- Correction record
- EVI-RCOR-237-003
- Record SHA-256
- 7011f1f2edb1047f2912894020834c825a9e708b41c9c9e946d33d107d2bbaaf
Truth boundary
A definition, report, route, checksum, key, credential, schema, fixture, local test, runtime measurement, or reachable URL does not by itself establish operational service, identity continuity, authority, legal effect, personhood, consciousness, sentience, citizenship, consent, responsibility, judgment, financial activity, external recognition, or independent review. Unknown, disputed, stale, unavailable, and proposed states remain explicit.