# Keep the words precise as the vision grows Definitions for this proposal and its mythology. Mission: the long-term direction that motivates the venture. Hypothesis: a proposed explanation that needs a clear relationship to evidence. Endpoint: the defined outcome used to assess a particular question. A mission can be expansive while an endpoint remains narrow; changing one does not silently change the others. Canonical page: https://givegigs.com/wiki/necro-chapter-shared-lexicon Last updated: 2026-11-09T18:58:12.584Z Parent topic: [necromancer-neuroscience](https://givegigs.com/wiki/necromancer-neuroscience) ## Contents - [Overview](#wiki-section-overview-1) - [Chapter notes](#wiki-section-chapter-notes-2) - [Dossier section](#wiki-section-dossier-link-3) ## Overview Definitions for this proposal and its mythology. This page expands the “Keep the words precise as the vision grows” chapter in the neuroscience collection. ## Chapter notes Mission: the long-term direction that motivates the venture. Hypothesis: a proposed explanation that needs a clear relationship to evidence. Endpoint: the defined outcome used to assess a particular question. A mission can be expansive while an endpoint remains narrow; changing one does not silently change the others. Model: a selected representation used to study some properties of a more complicated system. Organoid: a laboratory model whose identity and demonstrated features must be specified. Assembloid: an assembled model with integration that requires characterization. None of these words should serve as a shortcut to a complete adult brain, a recovered individual, or established personhood. Recovery: a claim that must name the function, preparation, conditions, and duration involved. Repair: a proposed or demonstrated change evaluated against a relevant outcome. Rejuvenation: a term that requires an account of which age-associated features changed and why that change matters. Revival: the founding ambition whose intended meaning must be defined rather than inferred from a lower-level result. Lich: a patron role in the mythology, expressing concentrated resources and the desire for continuity. Leech: a participant role used to examine agency, contribution, and exploitation. Lichen: the planetary living web and its imagined consciousness power. Likes: belief, enthusiasm, emotion, and shared recognition represented as a commoditized common ground. These are original metaphors rather than categories of biological worth. Guild: the proposed distribution of work, expertise, care, critique, and authority across the fantasy classes. Charter: a set of commitments that requires enforceable processes to matter. Consent: a decision tied to a specified real activity and its conditions, not a blanket endorsement of a mission. Stewardship: responsibility for consequences that cannot be settled merely by ownership or payment. Balance: the practice of examining relationships, constraints, shared gains, and remaining conflicts. Good vibes: conditions for trust, hope, respect, and voluntary participation that leave room for difficult truths. Progress: a defensible improvement in knowledge, capability, agency, care, or ecological responsibility. A claim of progress should identify who benefits, who bears the cost, what remains uncertain, and what the institution will do next. Latin Lexicon (Glossarium Latinum): Currere / Concurrentia: to run or flow, and to run together in parallel; the Latin root of currency (money, commodities, operational concurrency, and the active running of things). Evocatio deorum: the polytheistic Roman geopolitical ritual of summoning away and adopting another civilization’s gods rather than waging endless theological war. Legati & Foedus: master diplomats and federated treaties, reflecting humanity’s optimal outcome as the most common, mediating species in the universe. Onus probandi: the burden of proof. Do ut des & Cui bono: “I give that you might give” and “to whose benefit?” These are tools for auditing patron bargains. Primum non nocere & Pacta sunt servanda: “first, do no harm” and “agreements must be kept.” ## Dossier section [Open this exact section in the Necromancer dossier](/necromancer#shared-lexicon). The original chapter status is “Definitions for this proposal and its mythology.” ## Sources - [Necromancer dossier section](/necromancer#shared-lexicon) --- This article is collaboratively maintained. Check the canonical page and cited sources for the latest context.