---
id: sfoc-technologies-quantified-self
title: "Quantified Self"
primary_class: technologies
primary_domain: power-control
secondary_domains: [technology-infrastructure, body-evolution]
material_modes: [established-science, speculative-science, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Quantified Self

> **the quantified self artificer.** Read Quantified Self as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing shaped by the quantified motif meeting the self motif. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

## Origin

Provenance for Quantified Self is built outward from the earliest attributable context. Identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy before proposing continuity. Because the quantified motif meeting the self motif turns an intention into a repeatable intervention, provenance work must identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

## What It Is

Read Quantified Self as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing shaped by the quantified motif meeting the self motif. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy. In the Oracle it is classified as Technologies, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Quantified Self acquired authority through repetition, affiliation, evidence, or ritual in different proportions. Those routes are not treated as interchangeable. At collective scale, the quantified motif meeting the self motif redistributes skill, dependency, access, and the meaning of expertise; this matters because coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** established-science, speculative-science
- **Evidence state:** well-established
- **Summary:** Quantified Self has a well-established literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** established-science, speculative-science, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Quantified Self has a class-level contextual source but still lacks a concept-specific external source in this release. Its cultural history is an editorial research lead, not a completed provenance claim.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Quantified Self as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Read Quantified Self as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing shaped by the quantified motif meeting the self motif. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.
- **Archetype:** the quantified self artificer
- **Gift:** connect individual perception with the wider conditions expressed by the quantified motif meeting the self motif.
- **Shadow:** confusing a bounded empirical record with permission to claim more than its evidence supports.
- **Guidance:** Turn Quantified Self into a careful experiment concerning the quantified motif meeting the self motif. State what result would support, weaken, or leave the claim unresolved. Use this guidance where the quantified motif meeting the self motif turns an intention into a repeatable intervention; keep visible that coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.
- **Healing / integration:** Find the earliest source and newest remix of Quantified Self. Mark what changed in vocabulary, audience, evidence, and political effect. Review the quantified motif meeting the self motif through authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave, remembering that the card turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.
- **Question:** Which part of Quantified Self is observation, inherited story, active claim, or chosen symbol? Answer by testing how the quantified motif meeting the self motif turns an intention into a repeatable intervention against authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Quantified Self tests the difference between intuition, memory, fear, desire, and observation within authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave. None must be shamed, and none should silently impersonate the others while the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention. A grounded check for the quantified motif meeting the self motif is to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy, especially where the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.

### Social

Around Quantified Self, social proof can become support or substitute for evidence. Separate the value of community from the truth status of every shared claim. In shared life, the quantified motif meeting the self motif redistributes skill, dependency, access, and the meaning of expertise. Test that specific the quantified motif meeting the self motif pattern by asking people to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

### Spiritual

Through the quantified self artificer, the card offers a relationship to the quantified motif meeting the self motif. The reader is asked to receive that relationship without demanding possession of the unknown. In symbolic practice, the quantified motif meeting the self motif can function as sacrament, prosthesis, forbidden shortcut, or mirror of transformation; keep in view that coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.

### Technological

When the quantified motif meeting the self motif is rendered as technology, metaphors can quietly become specifications. Mark which functions are demonstrated, proposed, fictional, or impossible. When the quantified motif meeting the self motif becomes a capability, it must be evaluated through mechanism, constraints, failure modes, and reproducibility. Verify the implementation of the quantified motif meeting the self motif by asking participants to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

### Political

Where Quantified Self promises order, ask whose uncertainty is being reduced and whose freedom is being converted into someone else’s assurance. When the quantified motif meeting the self motif becomes governance, it concentrates or distributes power according to who owns, governs, and can refuse it. Make authority over the quantified motif meeting the self motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Upright, Quantified Self makes hidden structure visible without declaring every unknown solved. Act on what is clear and protect what remains open. The capacity within the quantified motif meeting the self motif is strongest when power is named precisely enough to be challenged, bounded, or made answerable, even as the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.
- **Shadow state:** When Quantified Self contracts the field, reduce scale: one claim, one source, one affected relationship, and one repairable action. To keep the quantified motif meeting the self motif from escalating, identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy, because the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.
- **Threshold state:** Quantified Self becomes relevant when a proposed capability turns intention into an intervention with dependencies and failure modes. The immediate signal is a change in authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave. Operationally, the quantified motif meeting the self motif turns an intention into a repeatable intervention; the reader should identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.
- **Practical move:** Find the earliest source and newest remix of Quantified Self. Mark what changed in vocabulary, audience, evidence, and political effect. Review the quantified motif meeting the self motif through authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave, remembering that the card turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.

## Game and Story Function

- capability
- cost-bearing-tool
- escalation

**Story seed:** A community organizes around Quantified Self, then discovers that coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful. The decisive conflict is over repair after the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention, not possession. The world of the story must show how the quantified motif meeting the self motif turns an intention into a repeatable intervention and why coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-technologies-gene-editing--sfoc-technologies-quantified-self
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-technologies-programmable-matter--sfoc-technologies-quantified-self
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-technologies-quantified-self--sfoc-technologies-quantum-computer
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-programs-mkultra--sfoc-technologies-quantified-self
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-states-chapel-perilous--sfoc-technologies-quantified-self
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-systems-galactic-market--sfoc-technologies-quantified-self

## Visual Direction

Quantified Self visualized as the quantified motif meeting the self motif: a precise instrument diagram reduced to one luminous capability and a readable input-output path. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

No elevated safety flag. Keep claims and metaphor visibly distinct.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Quantified Self? Which communities use Quantified Self differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Quantified Self?
