Purpose vector
What direction does this Yawn serve?
Make a chosen direction explicit without confusing it with a prediction or a physical quantity.
proposed · Synthesis of Dave's September 11 design request; open to correction.
What is a purpose vector?What is a purpose vector in Yawn?
Design model · vector metaphor
A record of the direction this Yawn is intended to serve: what matters, which difference is sought, over what horizon, and within which constraints. It is not a numerical vector until coordinates, units, and update rules are defined.
Why is this question here?
Governing inquiry · fixed first
This question orients the model. Reading activity cannot displace it.
The remaining questions follow the selected ordering mode.
Whose direction is this, and has it been chosen?
Distinguish a chosen purpose from an AI proposal and from an inherited preference. Name its source and scope. Missing purpose is an open question; a plausible inference should not silently become the owner's commitment.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before commitment by the source order.
How can something important survive competing demands?
Preserve the commitment separately from what currently attracts attention. Keep in view protects a question in learned order; manual placement remains available. Remove the protection or hold the inquiry when priorities change.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before inheritance by the source order.
How should a parent influence its children?
An accepted preference may apply within its declared scope. A child can record a more specific direction and retain the parent's provenance. Privacy and action authority cannot widen merely because the child is related to a parent.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before time by the source order.
Is purpose the same as velocity or a flow through J-space?
Analogy · mathematical gap remains
Purpose can describe direction across time, but it is not physical velocity. The earlier gradient implementation used natural-language gaps and heuristic magnitude. J-space remains an interpretive lens; a measured flow needs defined states, transitions, and observable predictions.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before boundary by the source order.
What would make us revise the purpose?
A change in chosen values, responsibilities, resources, or consequences. Ask whether the direction still matters and is feasible. A missed goal does not by itself disprove a value, and a strong preference does not make a factual belief true.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Last question in the current order.
