Adjudication - Bryant McGill

# Adjudication **Domain:** Law / Institutional design **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Adjudication** is the authoritative determination of a dispute, claim, eligibility question, or rule application through a defined process. ## Significance Its legitimacy depends on jurisdiction, evidence, reasons, independence, and meaningful review. ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] - [Primary or institutional source](https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adjudication) ## Routes [[wiki/Appeal|Appeal]] · [[wiki/Lex Sportiva|Lex Sportiva]] · [[wiki/Symbolic Administration|Symbolic Administration]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] ## Relationships - **Collection route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **Source context:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. - **Inference provenance:** [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0150 — Unresolved.** No agreed measurement distinguishes a system that experiences from one that behaves as if it does, and the emulation trajectory will reach deployment before that measurement exists. Recording the gap explicitly is more useful than resolving it prematurely, because the gap is where policy will be improvised. - **INF-0213 — Analytic.** Distinguishing a behavioral proxy from a causally continuous person requires a test the proxy cannot pass, and no such test is currently specified. Specifying one is urgent precisely because proxies will be commercially available and emotionally satisfying before the distinction matters legally.