---
id: sfoc-technologies-hologram
title: "Hologram"
primary_class: technologies
primary_domain: reality-ontology
secondary_domains: [technology-infrastructure, body-evolution]
material_modes: [speculative-science, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Hologram

> **the hologram artificer.** Hologram brings the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology into focus. It operates as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing and asks how world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim alter practical choice.

## Origin

To locate Hologram, the Oracle separates the originating record, the name now used for it, and the synthesis made for this deck. coherence is not the same as demonstration. Because the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology turns an intention into a repeatable intervention, provenance work must state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## What It Is

Hologram brings the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology into focus. It operates as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing and asks how world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim alter practical choice. 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

Different communities recruited Hologram to solve different problems. The record compares those uses through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim instead of declaring one timeless essence. At collective scale, the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology redistributes skill, dependency, access, and the meaning of expertise; this matters because a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** speculative-science
- **Evidence state:** plausible-speculation
- **Summary:** Hologram has a plausible-speculation literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** startrek-holodeck

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** speculative-science, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Hologram; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** startrek-holodeck

### symbolic-and-divinatory

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

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Hologram brings the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology into focus. It operates as a repeatable capability for sensing, transforming, connecting, or constructing and asks how world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim alter practical choice.
- **Archetype:** the hologram artificer
- **Gift:** hold a physically or conceptually motivated extrapolation and symbolic meaning together without collapsing their standards.
- **Shadow:** using technical or sacred language to conceal ordinary power and dependency.
- **Guidance:** Do not ask Hologram to solve every scale at once within world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim. Work at the nearest point where consent and feedback are possible while the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention. Use this guidance where the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology turns an intention into a repeatable intervention; keep visible that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.
- **Healing / integration:** Draft a consent protocol for engaging Hologram: scope, information, refusal, review, revocation, and care after participation. Review the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.
- **Question:** What evidence, relationship, or material condition would distinguish insight from projection here? Answer by testing how the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology turns an intention into a repeatable intervention against world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Encountering Hologram may expose a need for coherence, protection, belonging, mastery, or transformation. Name the need before granting the story causal authority. A grounded check for the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology is to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, especially where the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.

### Social

Socially, Hologram redistributes skill, dependency, access, and the meaning of expertise. The key question is whose account becomes legible and who can contest the arrangement. In shared life, the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology redistributes skill, dependency, access, and the meaning of expertise. Test that specific the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology pattern by asking people to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Spiritual

A spiritual reading of Hologram measures fruit rather than spectacle. Does it deepen compassion, courage, discernment, reciprocity, and grounded agency? In symbolic practice, the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology can function as sacrament, prosthesis, forbidden shortcut, or mirror of transformation; keep in view that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

### Technological

Hologram may be valuable as a design fiction even when unavailable as engineering. Its role then is to expose values, assumptions, and second-order effects. When the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology becomes a capability, it must be evaluated through mechanism, constraints, failure modes, and reproducibility. Verify the implementation of the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology by asking participants to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Political

The political stakes of Hologram appear where a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question. Legitimacy requires more than effective control. When the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology becomes governance, it concentrates or distributes power according to who owns, governs, and can refuse it. Make authority over the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology answerable by requiring decision-makers to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** The constructive movement is toward hold a physically or conceptually motivated extrapolation and symbolic meaning together without collapsing their standards. Keep the evidence layer visible so wonder and discernment can work together. The capacity within the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology is strongest when the model can be used without being mistaken for the whole of reality, even as the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.
- **Shadow state:** Hologram darkens when coherence is not the same as demonstration. Acknowledge the symbolic charge while reducing the factual claim to what sources support. To keep the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology from escalating, state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, because the pattern turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.
- **Threshold state:** When Hologram surfaces, an image, system, or claim may be concentrating too much meaning. Widen the frame before acting. Operationally, the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology turns an intention into a repeatable intervention; the reader should state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.
- **Practical move:** Draft a consent protocol for engaging Hologram: scope, information, refusal, review, revocation, and care after participation. Review the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card turns an intention into a repeatable intervention.

## Game and Story Function

- capability
- cost-bearing-tool
- escalation

**Story seed:** Two cultures encounter Hologram through incompatible evidence layers. Their survival depends on a protocol that preserves disagreement. The world of the story must show how the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology turns an intention into a repeatable intervention and why a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-technologies-antimatter-drive--sfoc-technologies-hologram
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-technologies-holodeck--sfoc-technologies-hologram
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-technologies-hologram--sfoc-technologies-longevity-escape-velocity
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-easter-egg--sfoc-technologies-hologram
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-post-biological-intelligence--sfoc-technologies-hologram
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-forces-evolution--sfoc-technologies-hologram

## Visual Direction

Hologram visualized as the hologram motif placed within reality & ontology: 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: startrek-holodeck, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Hologram? Which communities use Hologram differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Hologram?
