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The same affect may have different personal baselines; IAGA preserves the calibration reference and Elysium later checks whether it applies to the person being reconstructed.
Story relation: This story can be used to understand mixed affect with several simultaneous components. It is a reading example, not a claim that the chapter directly uses the name IAGA. Causal Stack Overflow and the Dirty Golden Age
Authority links: System overview · Elysium Affective Reconstruction · Aithos Law: Cognitive Privacy
If you only need the worldbuilding context, you can stop here. The sections below contain formal definitions, fields, governance, and implementation details for deeper reference.
Core Principle
Personal Calibration preserves the individual's baseline and mapping. When a downstream system claims personalized reconstruction, a population, cultural, diagnostic, or species average must not silently replace that person's own baseline.
Profile Structure and Use
IAGA preserves / exchanges the calibration reference; Elysium verifies whether it may be used before personalized reconstruction.
| Information | Role |
|---|---|
| version | Profile version. |
| scope | Scope of application. |
| baseline refs | Personal baseline references. |
| individual mapping rules | Individual mapping. |
| valid time | Validity time. |
| confidence | Uncertainty. |
| provenance | Provenance. |
| rights | Use permissions. |
| Check | Requirement |
|---|---|
| subject / profile ID / version | Must match the intended subject and version. |
| integrity reference | Confirms data integrity. |
| requesting actor | Identifies the requesting actor. |
| scoped authorization | Confirms authorized scope. |
| access mode | Normal services use SCOPED_QUERY; RAW_PROFILE is a separate high-sensitivity mode. |
| verification status | A failed verification must not proceed. |
Access and Wrong-Profile Defenses
Knowing a Profile ID does not grant permission to read or use the profile.
The first line validates identity / version / integrity / authorization. If that layer is compromised, the closed loop should still compare predicted versus observed IAGA response; repeated contradiction should invalidate calibration and stop / abort.
Scope, Limits, and Reader Example
The Joy offset +7 / -19 card is only a normalized reader-facing illustration; it is not a universal formula, Core-native scale, or reconstruction control algorithm.
If a wrong profile is not detected immediately, system-level outcomes may include degraded fidelity, wrong-direction movement, oscillation, divergence, rising residual, or safety abort. Without substrate-specific evidence, the system should not claim one deterministic subjective or biological consequence.