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Ancestry, culture, and region may supply initial priors but cannot override personal calibration or justify compulsory sensory output.
Story relation: The story directly uses ISO-Taste, providing a concrete narrative anchor for the sensory standards. Plato's Chicken and the Tyranny of the Senses
Authority links: System overview
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.
Population Priors Do Not Replace the Person
Standard S-Code describes the product; personalized S-Code describes output after personal calibration. Ancestry, culture, and region supply starting context rather than replacing the person's own measurement and longitudinal feedback. Cultural variants are context, not fixed group preference, and population priors cannot reduce personhood rights or justify compulsory sensory output.
Calibration Profile Contract
U is a calibration layer rather than a tenth sensory modality, and it does not define a universal numeric calibration scale. A formal profile keeps identity, version, scope, measurement status, calibration basis, and provenance separate.
| Reader purpose | Machine key | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Profile identity | profile_id | required |
| Profile version | profile_version | required |
| Profile scope | profile_scope | required |
| Measurement status | measurement_status | required |
| Calibration basis | calibration_basis | required |
| Provenance | provenance | required |
| Adjustments to sensory families | adjustments | optional; only describes T/O/X/M/P/H/A/V adjustments |
| Value | Use |
|---|---|
personal | Built from an individual person's data and longitudinal feedback |
population_prior | Used only as a population-level initial prior |
synthetic | Synthetic calibration baseline; not a real person |