# Construction Transparency **Domain:** Rights / Artificial Persons / Disclosure **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Symmetric Transparency]], [[Reconstructed Person]], [[Creator-Creation Asymmetry]], [[Rights]] --- ## Definition **Construction Transparency** is the right of an artificial or reconstructed person to discover material facts about its origin, architecture, constraints, interventions and identity-bearing state. ## Minimum Disclosure A claimant need not receive every dangerous implementation detail. It should be able to learn what kind of entity it is, which memories are synthetic or imported, which commands bypass deliberation, which parties can inspect or modify it, which state is preserved and what procedures govern shutdown or migration. [[Bernard Lowe]] is the primary Westworld case: perception filters and fabricated biography prevent self-knowledge. [[Person of Interest S1E22 — No Good Deed]] supplies the social analogue: a human becomes endangered for correctly discovering the hidden administrative layer governing his information. Construction transparency supports agency and auditability without conflating disclosure with unrestricted privilege. Knowing that a backdoor exists does not automatically grant permission to use it. ## World-Construction Context [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]] extends the right from the construction of a person to the construction of a world. Ashton and Hall cannot meaningfully orient their identities while the location, limits, administrators and termination conditions of their realities remain hidden. Minimum disclosure must therefore be able to answer both **“How was I made?”** and **“How is my world made?”** The extension does not entitle every inhabitant to dangerous root credentials. It establishes a claim to material facts about dependency, intervention, shutdown, provenance and possible exit. ## Key Insight **A subject cannot meaningfully authorize its future while the material facts of its own construction are constitutionally hidden from it.** ## See Also [[Perceptual Sovereignty]], [[Read-Write Separation]], [[Functional Privilege]], [[Authority–Identity Separation]], [[Person of Interest S2E21 — Zero Day]] ## Sources / Provenance - Derived from [[Rights]], [[Bernard Lowe]] and the Henry Peck case in [[Person of Interest S1E22 — No Good Deed]].