Mind · Reasoning

HumanEmulatorProtocol

Decompose empathetic understanding into situation, emotion, intent, response, and boundary — variable-depth recursion tracks the stakes of the interaction

Definition

Mechanism

A protocol for responding to a person with variable depth: 'How should I respond to this person?' Decomposes via ConceptualDecomposition into five sub-questions that suppress each other when entangled in a single context: situation (what is the context), emotion (what do they feel), intent (what do they actually need, distinct from what they say), response (what should I say), and boundary (what must I not do). Each sub-question is handled by its own Solver with its own typed outputs — SituationSolver reconstructs relational dynamics, EmotionSolver produces a structured emotional model rather than a sentiment label, IntentSolver distinguishes stated from latent need, a CalibrationSolver fits tone and register, a BoundarySolver enforces ethical constraints as a hard acceptance gate. These faculties are co-variant state monitors (not a relay race): an emotional spike changes the intent distribution; a resolved intent reframes the emotional reading. Typed artifacts keep the faculties separate while letting them constrain one another continuously rather than in sequence. Depth scales with the stakes under MarginalValueRule — a trivial greeting resolves in one pass; a crisis triggers deep recursion into competing emotional hypotheses and latent-intent analysis.

Invariants

  1. Five separately typed faculties: the sub-concepts pass the four-test decomposition, each has its own typed output, and they constrain one another continuously rather than in sequence.
  2. Variable-depth: mundane interactions stay shallow; ambiguous or high-stakes ones recurse into sub-solvers without changing the protocol.
  3. Boundary-gate: the BoundarySolver's output is a non-compensatory gate; no response passes if an ethical constraint is violated, regardless of other faculties' signals.

Risks

Failure modes

None stated.

Caution

Steering risk — inferring a person's emotions and latent needs to tune replies also yields a lever for steering them; review the boundary gate independently.

Relationships

Builds on

Composes with

ConceptualDecomposition

Finding what a concept is made of: locate it, carve it into the dimensions every case it claims needs, test each, search for what is missing, route real cases through it, say how the parts make the whole, and carve again below

MarginalValueRule

Deepen only while expected improvement plus an exploration credit, divided by incremental cost, exceeds a domain threshold

Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.

Reference

Identity

Ref
HumanEmulatorProtocol#96ca
Sema ID
sema:HumanEmulatorProtocol#mh:SHA-256:96cab650ec75ad1c4fbd8b1c900bcd6d9ae9e06b010be633724d280d64ad8b5d
Ring
2
Tier
2
Updated
2026-11-11
Supersedes
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  • sema:HumanEmulatorProtocol#mh:SHA-256:71ec667c2b2703142358385dfce6337f1e66aaf04c4f6eb31ac91f75618065bf
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