The Individual as an Axiom

The pre-eminent concept of the pure individual is only now starting to emerge in discourse on identity. This "pure" individual ("pure" being a name I give here for lack of a better adjective, perhaps "abstract" is more fitting) delineates the activity of one set of devices from another. An individual in Clique Space(TM) knows one's self through one's Sovereign - one of a collection of well defined Clique Space Elements. Individuals assert claims on devices through Connections - another type of Clique Space Element, and claims on authority through Affiliations - another type of Clique Space Element.

Individuals project these claims to others via Identities which are another type of Clique Space Element. Individuals interact with each other using combinations of Affiliations and Connections projected through an Identity in a Clique; a Clique is not a Clique Space Element, but it is a collection of a well defined combinations of these earlier stated Elements for each individual which are expressed in a Clique as Participants which are Clique Space Elements. Each Participant expresses characteristics selected by each individual and agreed to by all individuals of the Clique; no Clique can exist without the mutual constraint affinity of each member Participant.

I believe that the preeminent concept of the individual as someone who makes assertions (as opposed to a device which does not - at least not without an individual to govern it) is something discourse in the identity community appears not to have fully embraced at this stage. I think, however, discourse is approaching a precipice over which the individual will be recognised as the only entity having the characteristic of making assertions. Once the individual and their capacity for assertion is accepted as a precondition of identity by society at large, many riddles about identity will resolve themselves, and a system like Clique Space will show its worth.

That's my hunch anyway.

A crucial mechanism.

A short narrative about the structure of the Clique Space(TM) "component" mechanism is disclosed here.

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Components are pieces of information that an Agent Device knows about.

Components are stored in an Agent Device's component container.

Components must implement methods which are called when added to and removed from the Agent Device's component container. These call-backs give the component implementations the opportunity to manage their lifecycle.

Cliques, Elements, Clique Spaces, and data representing external device state when represented in Clique Space, are all components. Cliques, Elements and Clique Spaces comprise state information relevant to Agent Devices - an Agent Device is merely a device which, through one or more Clique Spaces, is modelled in terms of the individual who possesses it as one or more Participants. Each Participant is associated to precisely one Clique and one Clique Space.

An observable component is a component to which an observer Clique can be assigned.

An observer Clique is a Clique that represents all Agent Devices which have a copy of a given observable component.

No observer Clique exists if only one Agent Device has a copy of the given component.

All components except the Clique and its observer Clique subtype are observable.

A communicable component is a component which can be transmitted by one Agent Device and received by another over a synapse.

All observable components except the Sovereign and the Sovereign's Clique Space are communicable.
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One very interesting phenomenon about this mechanism is enabled in what is given in the final point of the above narrative: the Sovereign (specifically, the Sovereign's identifier) is known only to those Agent Devices in which the individual's presence is manifest. The Sovereign, and its Clique Space cannot be disclosed even between Agent Devices in which the individual's presence is manifest. The concept of an individual's sovereignty is so secret that Agent Devices which manifest the same individual presence cannot even communicate this information amongst themselves.

Why would a collection of Agent Devices (an Agent Collaboration) have anything to tell each other when they know who they are? A nervous system that makes up an individual has nothing of substance to share among its member neurons about the individual manifest by this membership; each individual member neuron already knows the individual it helps manifest by virtue of the fact that each member neuron possesses the secret which allows the individual to exist. This piece of information does not need to be communicated.

Instead, the individual manifest by an Agent Collaboration governed by a common Sovereign must be the only individual who knows the identifier of their own Sovereign. This identifier, after all, identifies the scope of their own existence. An individual may connect to their own Sovereign's Clique Space only if they know the value of their Sovereign's identifier. Hence, an individual would be well-placed never to allow another individual to know the value of their Sovereign's identifier; the consequences to such an individual's existence as a sovereign entity could be acutely bad.

On the flip side, the value of the Sovereign's identifier could be used as a private part to a key pair. An individual may still readily be identified as the presence manifest through different Connections, Affiliations or Identities if the individual wishes to disclose a digital signature with these Elements.

Hence, the value of the Sovereign's identifier (also the name of the Sovereign's Clique Space in my implementation) is a property which identifies an individual to themselves; a singular property of absolute value to the individual.

Another Clique Space(TM) usage scenario.

Say, I and two others are going out to have a dinner at a restaurant. The occasion is that it is a mother's day dinner out, and I am taking my mother (one of two other people) out to dinner. I am paying for her dinner, but the other individual is paying for their own meal.

 

Say, we all live in a world where Clique Space is commonplace. What, you might wonder, does this mean? At the most abstract level, this means that you possess one or more Agent Devices and you use your Agent Devices to cooperate with Agent Devices of other people in Cliques which form, grow, shrink, and disband within and between administrative domains called Clique Spaces. Agent Devices are devices like any other and have a physical manifestation like phones, cars, and computers. Other things like credit cards, Facebook pages, twitter accounts, bank accounts, and other abstract entities having a largely conceptual existence can be considered devices in Clique Space if they can exchange state information with one or more Agent Devices.

 

Now, back to the restaurant example, myself and the other two co-diners walk into the restaurant and meet the waiter. Before we are ushered to our table, the waiter verifies with us who is in our Clique, and who the Clique's Owner will be. I say I will be the Clique's Owner as I know who will be paying for who's meal; the waiter, an individual who has activated their "waiter" Affiliation through a selected Identity, gives me the Identity through which they have done this. I possess relevant Identities of my co-diners, and I use all Identities to form the Clique that I will own.

 

This Clique lasts for the duration of our meal. The restaurant uses the information in their account and in the service record of our waiter. I use the Clique to assert that I will pay for myself and my mother. The third diner accepts the condition that they pay for their own meal or the Clique wouldn't have been able to form. The waiter has joined my Clique because the Clique I have formed accepts that payment will be automatically deducted from each diner's account into the restaurant's account sufficient to pay the bill of service.

 

Each Participant has the opportunity to persist their individual Clique Space activity; interactions with others constitute this activity, and so each Participant has the opportunity to keep a record of this Clique in case there is any contention as to the bill, the proportion of the bill payed by each diner, the service offered by the waiter, or the activity recorded against other media like the bank's transaction system.

 

Each Participant except my mother disclosed their bank's transaction facility as a medium in this Clique. When the Clique formed, the devices that compose each Participant's transaction facility were nominated in the relevant Participant as Connections - activated against the relevant Identities by the individuals who hold the Identities (myself, the waiter, my mother, and the third diner) to be expressed in the corresponding Participant. Again, the Clique cannot form if the media requirements set by the Clique's Owner candidate (my candidate Participant) are not met by all other candidate Participants.

 

Hence, the Clique will only form if the medium and all constraints regarding the usage of this medium are met by all candidate Participants. Actual Participant instances will only be instantiated when constraint affinity can be met, and can only exist while ever constraint affinity can continue to be met.