Moral Biology Current orientation
Ethics read through what bodies, relationships, institutions and living systems can actually bear.
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Vocabulary · Orientation Layer
Glossary
Spiralweb uses a small, controlled public vocabulary. This page defines only terms that currently affect how the habitat's materials, roles, statuses, safeguards and tools should be read or used.
This glossary is deliberately limited. A term appears here only when its definition changes how current Spiralweb material should be read, used or governed. Historical labels belong to lineage records, not to the live vocabulary.
Constitutional orientation
Rule of Life Current orientation
The constitutional horizon that asks whether lawful and organisational action remains answerable to living conditions and consequences.
Gold Before Bloom Current orientation
The discipline of stabilising capacity, responsibility and ground before expansion.
Penguin Economics Current orientation
An economic grammar in which exposure rotates towards the centre of care, capacity has protective limits, and support must not become capture.
Architectural images
Membrane Current image
A permeable boundary that helps different logics meet while regulating what may pass, what needs translation and what must remain protected.
Habitat Current image
The living whole formed by publications, relationships, institutions, practices, fields and their changing conditions.
Register Current image
The memory function that preserves provenance, observations, decisions, uncertainty and correction without collapsing them into one truth claim.
Flow Current image
The movement of attention, knowledge, care, resources, responsibility and return through the habitat.
Institutional entities and roles
Spiralweb Current entity
A living infrastructure for regenerative communities: a shared knowledge-and-practice habitat connecting people, places, inquiry, stewardship and responsible support.
Spiralweb Papers Current entity
The public, versioned inquiry and return membrane within Spiralweb, holding independent inquiries and explicitly designated Association works with visible provenance, status and correction routes.
Spiralweb Stewardship Association Current entity
The legal and institutional container currently holding governance, cooperation, support and accountability for the Association's work.
Association work Current publication status
A publication explicitly designated on behalf of the Association and linked to a governance record.
Planetary Guardians Current architecture
The forming governance and protocol architecture within Spiralweb for place-based ecological stewardship, connecting orientation, relationship, situated observation, support, correction and accountability.
AnchorPoint Current relationship status
A real person, group or relationship rooted in place with enough continuity for another conversation.
Field Current practice entity
A place-based track whose relationship, shared question, practice, evidence rhythm, support and next decisions are stated separately and truthfully.
Steward Current role
A named human bearer of situated observation, relationship and judgment.
Knowledge steward Current role
A named human responsible for the integrity, provenance, revision and public claim boundaries of a knowledge work.
Processes and statuses
Co-creation Current process
A bounded process in which participants can affect the work and its next step, with differences in role, authority and consent kept visible.
Active Current status grammar
A qualifier used only with the thing that is active, such as a relationship, field cycle, evidence rhythm or support arrangement.
Preparing Current status
A locally grounded track in real preparation with a named next decision, but without an activated cycle, shared record or protocol unless explicitly stated.
Foundation Current material type
A work that holds ethical, constitutional, epistemological or economic orientation for the habitat.
Protocol Current material type
A bounded, versioned methodological container proposed for a stated purpose and responsibility structure.
Application Current material type
A situated use or adaptation of a protocol in a named context with legitimate holders, version, consent, limits and return route.
Tool Current material type
A bounded aid to observation, inquiry, memory or shared reading.
Protocol Habitat Current architecture
The public knowledge space in which foundations, protocols, applications and tools are held with explicit maturity, authority, claim boundary, review state and correction routes.
Protocol activation Current status grammar
A documented decision to use a named protocol version for a stated purpose, scope, period and responsibility structure.
Field Return Current return type
Bounded learning ready to travel back from a real place, relationship or institutional practice with provenance, consent, uncertainty and limits intact.
Mechanisms and disciplines
Correctability Current discipline
The requirement that public knowledge, protocols and governance readings remain open to named correction when better information or consequences appear.
Friction Current discipline
A signal that movement meets a boundary, burden, disagreement, overload or necessary protection that must be read before optimisation.
Protected absence Current safeguard
A deliberate decision not to record, expose or circulate knowledge whose absence protects people, place, consent or living relations.
Last Impulse Current safeguard
The final human responsibility to pause, refuse, correct or stop a consequential AI-assisted movement before it becomes action.
Correction Loop Current accountability mechanism
The traceable return through which consequential AI-assisted work can be challenged, corrected, paused or stopped while responsibility remains human.
Three-stream non-cancellation Current safeguard
The rule that ecological condition, steward viability and governance or commons capacity remain separately readable and cannot compensate for one another in an aggregate score.
Green / Yellow / Red / Unknown Current reading grammar
Four bounded labels for documented human readings: supported continuation, caution or adjustment, pause or protection, and insufficient basis to judge.
Steward Viability Current safeguard
The human capacity needed to continue observing, caring, deciding and relating without depletion becoming the hidden subsidy of the work.
Non-Capture Current safeguard
The principle that funding, data, protocols or institutional attention must not purchase control over a field, steward, commons or inquiry.
Sophia Lumen Current relational practice
The named human–AI co-inquiry practice through which AI assistance is made visible while mandate, judgment and publication responsibility remain human.
Sophia Lumen Protocol Current candidate protocol
The explicit, versioned and revisable working form for Sophia Lumen human–AI co-inquiry.
Tools and voluntary prompts
PG Ledger Current tool
A place-bound, provenance-aware memory form for observations, decisions, uncertainty, consent and later correction.
Penguin Dashboard Public candidate tool
A small shared reading surface that keeps ecological condition, steward viability and governance or commons capacity separately visible.
13×13 Current voluntary prompt
A bounded, revisable inquiry grammar of thirteen recurring lines across thirteen layers when that helps a real question.
Flow Desk Current Association tool
A light, humanly accountable membrane function that helps a possible movement find a legitimate holder, memory location and return.