AMS Guide Part 1 — Charter and Purpose

AMS Guide Part 1 — Charter and Purpose

1. What This Guide Is

This document is a companion guide to the Aetheric Magnetic Substrate (AMS) Ontology.

Its purpose is to:

  • explain the ontology in plain but accurate language
  • reduce cognitive load for readers encountering the ideas for the first time
  • provide intuition, metaphors, and narrative scaffolding
  • allow readers to grasp what the ontology is doing without needing to adopt its formal vocabulary immediately

The guide is not the ontology itself.
It does not replace formal definitions or axioms.
It exists to make them understandable.

2. Intended Audience

Primary Audience

Readers with:

  • a genuine interest in science and how the physical world works
  • some familiarity with scientific ideas and language
  • curiosity rather than professional obligation

A good mental model is:

A regular reader of a BBC science magazine, Scientific American–style articles, or long-form popular science writing.

This reader:

  • is not a practising physicist
  • is not mathematically specialised
  • but is capable of sustained thought and conceptual reasoning

Secondary Audience

Scientifically trained readers (physicists, engineers, researchers) who:

  • want to quickly understand the shape of the framework
  • want to see what problem the ontology is trying to solve
  • are scanning for conceptual coherence before investing effort

For this audience, the guide acts as:

  • a rapid orientation layer
  • a semantic map
  • a way to assess seriousness without wading through axioms

3. What This Guide Is Not

This guide is not:

  • a technical physics textbook
  • a mathematical derivation
  • a proof or validation document
  • a speculative metaphysics essay detached from physical intuition

It does not attempt to:

  • compete with formal theory papers
  • persuade by rhetoric or authority
  • smuggle conclusions via analogy

The guide explains; it does not argue.

4. Tone and Style Commitments

4.1 Clarity Before Compression

  • Readability is prioritised over maximal density.
  • Short explanations are preferred, but not at the expense of understanding.
  • Key ideas may be restated in different ways.

4.2 Metaphors as Scaffolding

Metaphors are:

  • explicitly used
  • clearly marked as metaphors
  • dropped once intuition is established

Metaphors are teaching tools, not ontological claims.

4.3 Vocabulary Discipline

  • Unusual or heavy terms are introduced gradually.
  • When a technical term is used, it is:
    • defined
    • motivated
    • connected to something familiar
  • The guide avoids introducing new jargon unless it already exists in the ontology.

5. Relationship to the Ontology

The guide:

  • mirrors the ontology’s structure
  • explains why concepts exist before how they are formalised
  • points back to ontology sections where precision lives

Rules:

  • The guide does not redefine ontology terms
  • The guide does not introduce new axioms
  • When simplification is used, it is flagged as such

Ontology = authority
Guide = illumination

6. Cognitive Load Management

The guide is written to:

  • reduce the number of new ideas introduced at once
  • separate intuition-building from formal structure
  • allow readers to “get it” in layers

This includes:

  • narrative flow
  • repeated anchoring ideas
  • visual metaphors (described, not diagram-heavy)
  • strategic recap sections

Readers should never feel they must understand everything to proceed.

7. Guardrails Against Misinterpretation

The guide explicitly avoids:

  • anthropomorphising physical processes
  • implying intelligence or agency where none is intrinsic
  • conflating explanatory metaphor with literal mechanism

Where common misreadings are likely, they are:

  • named
  • explained
  • calmly ruled out

This protects both scientific and metaphysical coherence.

8. Success Criteria

The guide succeeds if:

  • a curious non-specialist can explain the basic idea of AMS to someone else
  • a scientist can skim it and accurately summarise what AMS claims and does not claim
  • readers feel less intimidated by the ontology, not more
  • metaphors illuminate rather than obscure

If the guide makes the ontology feel mysterious or mystical, it has failed.

9. Scope Boundary

This guide operates entirely within:

  • runtime physical reality
  • conceptual explanation
  • lawful constraint-based reasoning

Questions of:

  • ultimate origin
  • consciousness
  • divine agency

are acknowledged only where needed to prevent category errors, not explored in depth.

10. Final Orientation Statement

This guide exists to help readers see that the AMS ontology is:

  • conceptually grounded
  • intuitively motivated
  • disciplined about what it does and does not claim

It invites understanding first, judgement later.

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