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Recording, storing, displaying, training on, and reconstructing affect data are different uses and require separate permission judgments.

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 · Aithos Law: Mental Sovereignty · Aithos Law: Cognitive Privacy

Formal Specification

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

Whether IAGA can technically represent or reconstruct affect is separate from whether that use is authorized. The record must preserve use permissions and provenance; “can be done” must not become “is authorized.”

Permission Surfaces

Each use is judged independently; permission for one surface does not imply permission for another.

Independent Permission Surfaces
Machine keyUse
recordRecord affect data.
storageStore affect data.
projectionCreate a projection / derivative representation.
public_displayPublic display.
trainingUse for training.
reconstructionUse for reconstruction.
inductionActively induce affect.
Valid Permission Combinations
SettingResult
record = ALLOW · training = DENYRecording is allowed without permitting training.
reconstruction = ALLOW · induction = DENYA downstream system may allow planning while blocking active induction.

Provenance, Perspective, and Calibration Access

Material records should make it possible to trace source, observation/inference/simulation status, transformation history, confidence, and review status.

Annotation perspective preserves the source of attribution; SIMULATED or MODEL_INFERRED must not silently become SELF_REPORTED downstream.

Annotation Perspective Formal Values
EnumPerspective
SELF_REPORTEDFirst-person self-report.
WRITER_EXPRESSEDWriter-expressed.
READER_PERCEIVEDReader-perceived.
OBSERVER_INFERREDObserver-inferred.
CLINICIAN_ASSESSEDClinician-assessed.
MODEL_INFERREDModel-inferred.
HISTORICALLY_RECONSTRUCTEDHistorically reconstructed.
SIMULATEDSimulated.
UNKNOWNPerspective currently unresolved.
CalibrationProfile Access Constraints
ConstraintRule
purpose-limitedLimited to the declared purpose.
actor-scopedLimited to the authorized actor.
subject-scopedLimited to the corresponding subject.
minimum-necessaryUses only the minimum data necessary for the purpose.

Scope and Limits

A technically reconstructable affect is not automatically publishable, trainable, or inducible. IAGA rights are compatible with Aithos Law concepts such as Mental Sovereignty, Cognitive Privacy, and the Right to Refuse Modification, but technical conformance does not replace legal process.

Knowing a CalibrationProfile ID does not grant permission to read or use that profile.

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