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The applied seed - Engineering

Engineering is applied — different from the philosophical or human-reality views in this seed section. There is no direct fit; SPLectrum Engineering aims for a low-friction translation in the logical design space. This page maps engineering vocabulary onto the seed; further explanation belongs in the engineering section.

P0 — Being implies language.
Within engineering the world is modeled as a visible data state. This data state is made up of data entities. A data entity has an object structure — data with associated functionality that can be executed in the data world to read or transform data state. Being is mapped to data entity, language to that functionality. The word protocol is chosen to map to a software API, where the API both has its own context (in its structure) and can be associated with a wider context (as part of a larger structure). API methods are called operators.

P1 — Language is relational.
What a protocol gives access to depends on what it relates to. A protocol’s reach is the relations it holds — different relations, different reach.

P2 — Language is the medium through which a subject experiences reality.
Within engineering, the word owner is borrowed from microservices — the holder of a set of data entities. So subject is mapped to data owner, and the owner’s data state — its data reality — lives in a data repository (git repo). Experiencing is the activity of reading and transforming data state. Data world subviews — partial views of the data world’s totality — are made available to owners. An owner acts through protocols, composed into personas — structured sets that take on language game roles.

P3 — Language is where subjects share knowledge about reality.
Each owner reads or transforms only its own data state. The data fabric propagates the change, making it visible to other owners as shared data state — visibility is sharing, no separate mechanism. The indirect use of language to share knowledge applies. Direct owner-to-owner communication is not at this level; it emerges at higher levels.

P4 — Languages are interrelational and have equal standing in potential.
P5 — Together they form a web of growing complexity.
Within the engineering design space a protocol structure is aimed for that reflects those of language in general. However, bear in mind that designing a solution for implementation is designing for the creation of clones - individuals - and most of the language (protocol) interrelation exists in design evolution.

See the seed series for the conversation around these principles.