Reference
These are the working definitions used across the Aevitas system. Each term has a stable link and is open to documented revision.
The conditioned, trainable capacity to examine present conditions, select a viable response, enact it, and take ownership for outcomes.
A person exercising deliberate participation within the range of action situationally available to them.
The practice of reviewing inherited or previously selected conditions and patterns, then ratifying, revising, or ending their authority over conduct.
A response pattern that becomes reliable through repeated deliberate practice while remaining open to revision when conditions change.
The branch concerned with Agency under resistance, adversity, physical demand, risk, and uncertainty.
The branch concerned with relation, community, institutions, power, and responsibility beyond the self.
A pattern of calibrated demand, adequate recovery, and integration, resulting in increased capacity when done correctly.
An analogy for the drift of untended systems toward disorder, weakness, rigidity, or decay.
The branch concerned with standards, practiced virtue, responsibility, and the continuity of conduct consistent with established Identity over time.
An involuntary bodily or emotional response that arrives before deliberate evaluation.
Trained attention sustained through the Interval, keeping deliberate selection available when distraction, impulse, or strain would otherwise close it.
The present operating space in which conditions are perceived and evaluated and a Selected Output is chosen.
Deliberate action that directs effort outward to alter external conditions.
The accumulating record of costs, consequences, patterns, and repairs brought forth in conduct, relationships, and the body.
The branch concerned with perception, reasoning, interpretation, knowledge, judgment, and Identity.
Disciplined observation of what was done, avoided, and produced in a defined Interval.
The branch concerned with action selection, enactment, feedback, and revision.
The learned return to perspective, evaluation, and selection within the Interval after a First Movement appears.
The response an Agent carries out after selection, whether visible or withheld.
Deliberate action that uses effort to maintain position, wait, refuse, or otherwise withhold outward movement.