The Kernel of Participanthood presents the minimal structural architecture developed in Victor Wyld’s The Participanthood Problem: Identity Under Continued Carrying.
The figure organizes participanthood around five related conditions: implication, carrying, participation, identity, and scrutinized awareness.
The structure begins with implication as the primitive relation and traces what follows when implication persists across continuation.
What the figure represents
Implication identifies the condition by which something becomes bound to continuation. Carrying is implication across continuation.
Participation is continuation under carried implication. Identity is the stabilized pattern of what has been carried. Scrutinized awareness concerns awareness of what has become something the participant must carry.
These are not merely labels for increasingly sophisticated information processing. The kernel describes a structural relation between what occurs and the participant whose continuation is altered by what has occurred.
The figure therefore distinguishes participanthood from mere persistence. A system may continue, preserve information, or reproduce previous states without continuation occurring under carried implication.
From: The Participanthood Problem: Identity Under Continued Carrying by Victor Wyld.