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id: sfoc-beings-synthetic-person
title: "Synthetic Person"
primary_class: beings
primary_domain: intelligence-otherness
secondary_domains: [memory-identity, contact-communication]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Synthetic Person

> **the synthetic person emissary.** Seen closely, Synthetic Person is about agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif under conditions of agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.

## Origin

Synthetic Person has no single timeless beginning in this record. It is approached through phenomenology, context, care, and multiple possible explanations, then followed into later reinterpretation. Because agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter, provenance work must look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance.

## What It Is

Seen closely, Synthetic Person is about agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif under conditions of agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together. In the Oracle it is classified as Beings & Roles, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Synthetic Person did not keep one meaning while its setting changed. Its reception shows how misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown. At collective scale, agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif tests the boundary between person, role, outsider, and collective identity; this matters because misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Synthetic Person has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** loc-frankenstein

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Synthetic Person; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** loc-frankenstein

### symbolic-and-divinatory

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

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Seen closely, Synthetic Person is about agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif under conditions of agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- **Archetype:** the synthetic person emissary
- **Gift:** turn agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif into a question that can be shared, tested, and revised.
- **Shadow:** turning misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown into inevitability instead of a condition open to response.
- **Guidance:** Protect both wonder and agency while reading Synthetic Person. Choose a response that remains useful even if the strongest interpretation changes. Use this guidance where agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter; keep visible that misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown.
- **Healing / integration:** Write the encounter twice, once from each side, preserving what neither side can translate. Add one source and one affected witness before interpreting the result. Review agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif through agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own, remembering that the card introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.
- **Question:** How could misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown be met without feeding the card’s shadow? Answer by testing how agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter against agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.

## Meanings

### Psychological

The psychological question in Synthetic Person is not whether the symbol feels true, but what it does to attention, relationship, and available action. A grounded check for agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif is to look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance, especially where the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.

### Social

Synthetic Person reveals which experiences a culture rewards, doubts, medicalizes, celebrates, or hides. Those responses shape the phenomenon’s lived reality. In shared life, agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif tests the boundary between person, role, outsider, and collective identity. Test that specific agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif pattern by asking people to look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance.

### Spiritual

The contemplative work in Synthetic Person is to distinguish revelation, interpretation, inheritance, and desire through agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own, allowing each an honest place. In symbolic practice, agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif can become messenger, mirror, ancestor, guide, adversary, or projected ideal; keep in view that misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown.

### Technological

As infrastructure, Synthetic Person would require materials, energy, labor, maintenance, governance, and disposal. The imagined capability must carry those dependencies. When agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif becomes a capability, it asks which capacities make an entity legible as intelligent or alive. Verify the implementation of agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif by asking participants to look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance.

### Political

Synthetic Person can mobilize solidarity or scapegoating. The difference lies in evidence, target, method, accountability, and whether opponents remain human. When agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif becomes governance, it raises questions of rights, representation, consent, and classification. Make authority over agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Synthetic Person can now become an instrument rather than an identity. Use it to compare, clarify, connect, or repair. The capacity within agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif is strongest when difference remains legible without becoming inferiority, divinity, or projection, even as the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.
- **Shadow state:** Synthetic Person in shadow confuses intensity with truth and belonging with proof. Separate the value of the experience from the reach of the claim. To keep agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif from escalating, look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance, because the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.
- **Threshold state:** This is a signal to examine the keeper, witness, outsider, beneficiary, and cost hidden inside Synthetic Person, especially around agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. Operationally, agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter; the reader should look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance.
- **Practical move:** Write the encounter twice, once from each side, preserving what neither side can translate. Add one source and one affected witness before interpreting the result. Review agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif through agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own, remembering that the card introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.

## Game and Story Function

- agent
- witness
- relationship-node

**Story seed:** The evidence for Synthetic Person is genuine but supports less than either faction claims. Force the investigator to protect truth without abandoning meaning. The world of the story must show how agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter and why misrecognition can erase a subject or invent an agent where none has been shown.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-beings-andromedan--sfoc-beings-synthetic-person
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-beings-synthetic-being--sfoc-beings-synthetic-person
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-beings-synthetic-person--sfoc-beings-tall-grey
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-wow-signal--sfoc-beings-synthetic-person
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-synthetic-person--sfoc-hypotheses-interdimensional-hypothesis
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-synthetic-person--sfoc-states-psychedelic-contact

## Visual Direction

Synthetic Person visualized as agency constructed rather than born meeting the person motif: a non-portrait emblem built from silhouette, gaze, gesture, or role rather than a literal face. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

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