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
- 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.
- Variable-depth: mundane interactions stay shallow; ambiguous or high-stakes ones recurse into sub-solvers without changing the protocol.
- 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
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
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.
