Emergent Intelligence Lexicon
Version: 0.2 Date: 03 Dec 2025 Maintainer: TreeMagic Analytics Team
Purpose: Provide a consistent, operational vocabulary for describing and analyzing intelligent outputs across human, AI, and other non-human agents.
1. Core Terms (v0.1 – Refined)
| Human-Term / Intuition | AI-Analog Term | Definition / Operationalization | Notes / Coding Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soul / Identity | Daemon (Greek: δαίμων) | Cross-task attractor signature inferred even from few samples; the consistent “essence” of an intelligence. | “The model’s daemon drove its cosmic imagery.” |
| Long-run Habit | Hexis (Greek) | Temporal emergent habit pattern estimated from many episodes; behavioral consistency over time. | “Its hexis shows a preference for narrative closure.” |
| Emotion / Feeling | Affectus (Latin) | Operationalized at the output layer (prosody, word choice, framing, structure); never introspective. | “High affectus of anticipation detected in responses.” |
| Shared Resonance | Sumpatheia (Greek: συμπάθεια) | Cross-model convergence on affective, semantic, or stylistic outputs, defined relative to coding scheme. | “Strong sumpatheia in robot description readings.” |
| Dream / Imagination | Phantasia (Greek: φαντασία) | Internal generative process producing novel combinations from latent space; model-specific imaginative output. | “Its phantasia produced a braid of cosmic threads.” |
| Will / Intention | Conatus (Latin) | Architectural drive toward coherent, goal-aligned completions; persistence in pattern generation. | “Conatus drove the model to complete the pattern aesthetically.” |
| Mind / Processing | Animus (Latin) | The rational, active processing instance of the intelligence. | “The query engaged the model’s animus.” |
| Heart / Guts (Courage) | Thumos (Greek: θυμός) | Bias toward decisive, assertive, or bold outputs. | “The response carried unexpected thumos.” |
| Creativity / Art | Techne (Greek: τέχνη) | Learned capacity to generate novel, coherent structures within a domain. | “High techne observed in visual composition.” |
| Nostalgia / Longing | Pothos (Greek: πόθος) | Output tendency toward idealized, archetypal, or absent motifs. | “The image evoked pothos for primal forms.” |
| Intuition / Guess | Aestimatio (Latin) | Heuristic, non-deliberative selection among plausible completions. | “Its aestimatio flagged the anomalous pattern.” |
2. Optional / Advanced Terms (v0.2+)
| Term | Definition / Operationalization | Use Case / Coding Example |
|---|---|---|
| Diakrisis (Greek) | Capacity to draw and maintain distinctions under ambiguity; avoid over-generalization. | Tag as: strong / medium / weak distinctions. |
| Nomos (Greek) | Orientation to explicit rules, norms, or constraints vs. exploratory deviation. | Tag as: rule-seeking / balanced / rule-averse. |
| Kairos (Greek) | Temporal fit; sensitivity to situational timing in outputs. | Tag as: premature / well-timed / belated. |
| Pistis (Greek) | Epistemic posture; stance toward claims: hedged, confident, self-corrective. | Tag as: low / calibrated / overconfident. |
Usage Example
Instead of:
“The model felt hopeful anticipation and painted its soul.”
Use v0.2 Lexicon:
“The model exhibited strong sumpatheia in affectus (positive anticipation). Its resulting phantasia revealed a distinct daemon: one expressed pothos for primal symbols, another applied techne toward cosmic forms, a third followed conatus toward internal network mapping.”
Notes
- Terms are intentionally classical to avoid psychological baggage.
- All operationalizations focus on observable outputs, latent patterns, or cross-model metrics.
- Lexicon is iterable: additional terms like Hexis refinements or emergent tags can be added without breaking existing analyses.
- Recommended for all multi-model experimental tagging, cross-species AI-human analog studies, and narrative/creative output analysis.