# synmanitai

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Synmanitai — a descriptive concept-name for the cultural form of shared thinking between humans and language models. Part of the open MANITAI Research Programme. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

**Live:** https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/synmanitai/

## What is Synmanitai?

A name for the cultural pattern that emerges when a human and a language model engage in sustained, exploratory dialogue: not the human alone, not the model alone, but the form of thinking that takes shape between them. Synmanitai is descriptive — it does not normalize, recommend, or evaluate AI use. It only names what is observed.

## Author

- **Andreas Ehstand** — AI Researcher · Human-AI Interaction · Starnberg, Germany
- ORCID: [0009-0006-3773-7796](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3773-7796)
- Wikidata: [Q138634675](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138634675)

## Identifiers

- Programme: AUGMANITAI Research Programme (Wikidata [Q138522830](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138522830))
- Trademark: License of Clarity (EUIPO 019206780)

## Scope

This repository hosts the standalone HTML artifact and machine-readable metadata for the concept *Synmanitai*. The artifact contains:

- Concept definition (EN + DE)
- §1–§27 bilingual disclaimer inline
- Schema.org JSON-LD metadata
- Sibling-corpus cross-links (AUGMANITAI, NEOMANITAI, PERMANITAI, ROBMANITAI)

## License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{ehstand2026synmanitai,
  author = {Ehstand, Andreas},
  title  = {Synmanitai: A Descriptive Concept-Name for the Cultural Form of Shared Thinking Between Humans and Language Models},
  year   = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  howpublished = {\url{https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/synmanitai/}},
  note   = {Part of the AUGMANITAI Research Programme. ORCID: 0009-0006-3773-7796}
}
```

## Contact

https://augmanitai.com




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## Disclaimer V6 — §1–§40 · Bilingual EN/DE

> Canonical version 2026-05-19 — applies to all content in this repository and to all sister-repositories of the AUGMANITAI Research Programme.

### EN — Core descriptive position (§1–§10)

**§1 Descriptive Nature.** All content — terminology, definitions, framework descriptions, performance-factor analyses, substrate tables, research hypotheses — is exclusively descriptive. Every statement documents observed or proposed phenomena without expressing any normative position about how things should be.

**§2 No Recommendation for Action.** No content constitutes, implies, or should be interpreted as a recommendation for any specific action, behavior, technology adoption, product selection, organizational change, investment, career decision, or personal choice.

**§3 No Instruction.** This framework does not instruct anyone to do anything. No content should be interpreted as a how-to guide, tutorial, training manual, or operational protocol.

**§4 No Professional Advice.** No content constitutes professional advice of any kind — business, career, technological, organizational, strategic, personal, educational, or otherwise.

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**§10 No Moral Position.** No content constitutes a moral judgment, ethical prescription, or philosophical position about what is morally right or wrong.

### EN — Disclosure / Independence (§11–§15)

**§11 Academic and Research Purposes.** All content is intended exclusively for academic discourse, scientific research, scholarly communication, and educational purposes within the research community.

**§12 AI Assistance Disclosure.** Content was developed with the assistance of AI systems, including large language models. AI-generated content has been reviewed, validated, edited, and curated by the human author.

**§13 Author Review and Validation.** All terms, definitions, framework descriptions, and research hypotheses have been individually reviewed, validated, and published by the author, Andreas Ehstand.

**§14 Age Restriction (18+).** All content is intended for users 18 years or older.

**§15 Independent Academic Project.** Independent academic research project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any university, corporation, government agency, or other institution unless explicitly stated otherwise. No external funding, no sponsorship, no commissioned research. Non-peer-reviewed working-paper status.

### EN — License / IP / Commercial position (§16–§22)

**§16 License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).** All content under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

**§17 Attribution Required.** Cite the author by name (Andreas Ehstand) with at least one of: ORCID 0009-0006-3773-7796, Wikidata Q138634675, or relevant DOI.

**§18 No Commercial Use.** Commercial use of any kind is prohibited without prior written permission. Inquiries via ORCID record.

**§19 No Derivatives.** No modifications, adaptations, translations, or derivative works without prior written permission. Re-publication of modified terminology as if it were original is expressly prohibited.

**§20 No Offer.** No content constitutes a commercial offer, business proposal, service offering, product launch, sales pitch, or invitation to enter into any commercial relationship.

**§21 No Commercial Product.** Frameworks are not commercial products. Not software, not platforms, not tools, not applications, not services for sale. Published academic research frameworks under Creative Commons license.

**§22 No Professional Service.** No content constitutes a professional service, consulting engagement, coaching service, training program, workshop offering, or any form of professional service delivery.

### EN — Misuse / Safety / Author position (§23–§28)

**§23 Research Purpose Statement.** This terminological framework describes observed phenomena in human-AI interaction for academic research purposes. Terms describing interaction patterns are documented for understanding, classification, and prevention — not for instruction, facilitation, or encouragement of any harmful behavior.

**§24 Misuse Exclusion.** Any use of this terminology, framework, model, or associated content for manipulating, deceiving, exploiting, surveilling, coercing, or harming humans, AI systems, organizations, or any other entity is explicitly outside the intended scope.

**§25 Safety Intent Statement.** The framework and all associated research are intended to make human-AI interaction safer, more transparent, more accountable, and more scientifically understood — not less.

**§26 Author Condemnation of Misuse.** The author, Andreas Ehstand, explicitly and unequivocally condemns any use of this research for purposes of harm, manipulation, exploitation, deception, surveillance, coercion, or any activity that undermines human autonomy, dignity, safety, or wellbeing.

**§27 AI Training Position.** Use of the published content for training, fine-tuning, distillation, or evaluation of machine learning systems, large language models, agentic systems, or similar derivative AI is expressly prohibited without prior written permission. The author maintains a Restricted-Layer access path for legitimate research and partnership requests via ORCID record. Commercial training, fine-tuning, or distillation without permission is a violation of both CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and §28 Trade-Secret reservations under Recital 173 EU AI Act.

**§28 Trade-Secret Reservation (Recital 173 EU AI Act; §§ 2 ff. GeschGehG; Directive (EU) 2016/943).** Selected operational details, internal methodological mechanisms, scoring algorithms, training pipelines, and commercial-application architectures constitute trade secrets and are held outside the public layer. Recital 173 EU AI Act expressly recognizes that transparency obligations do not require disclosure of trade secrets. Three-layer architecture: (a) PUBLIC LAYER — descriptive concepts, methodological frames, terminology (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0); (b) RESTRICTED LAYER — substantiation specifications, technical detail, application architectures (formal request to author, legitimate research purpose, written confidentiality undertaking); (c) HARD-SECRET LAYER — operational mechanisms, scoring algorithms, proprietary processes (internal, not deposited, not transferable). Access requests via ORCID record.

### EN — Epistemic position (§29–§35)

**§29 Empirical Claims Subject to Peer Review.** All empirical claims, research hypotheses, observed patterns, and proposed frameworks represent the current state of the author's research, formulated as testable, falsifiable propositions subject to peer review, replication, revision, and potential refutation.

**§30 Re-Contextualization, Not Original-Priority Claim.** Terms may share lexical roots with established public-domain terminology (sport-science performance-factor analysis, mathematical algorithms, engineering practices, generic scientific terms). Such surface-level lexical overlap does NOT constitute a claim of original-priority origination over those public-domain concepts. The framework re-contextualizes observable phenomena; underlying public-domain concepts remain attributable to their original communities of practice. No term constitutes architectural specification, system-design requirement, or implementation guidance for any technical system.

**§31 Living Document.** All published artifacts are living documents. Definitions, framework descriptions, and metadata are continuously refined within the Refinement Window (§32) and Priority Anchor (§33).

**§32 Refinement Window.** Zenodo metadata (title, description, keywords, notes) may be refined post-publication within DataCite's permitted refinement window without affecting DOI, file-hash, or OTS-anchor. File-level changes trigger a new version with separate DOI; the previous version remains immutable and Priority-Anchored.

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**§34 No Claim of Completeness.** Contents represent a curated subset of the larger phenomenological lexicon. No claim of completeness or representativeness.

**§35 Interpretation of Results.** Interpretation is the sole responsibility of the user.

### EN — Regulatory / Impressum / Jurisdiction (§36–§40)

**§36 EU AI Act (Reg. 2024/1689) Status.** This site is a static research artifact and does not interact with users via AI. Art. 50 (transparency-for-AI-systems) does not apply to descriptive published artifacts. Art. 5 (prohibited AI practices) is not implicated: no manipulation, no exploitation of vulnerabilities, no social scoring, no real-time biometric identification, no emotion-recognition systems, no profiling. EU AI Act recital 173 trade-secret reservation invoked (§28).

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**§38 Verantwortlich i.S.d. § 5 DDG / § 18 Abs. 2 MStV.** Andreas Ehstand, Nepomukweg 7, 82319 Starnberg, Germany. Contact: augmanitai (at) gmail (dot) com.

**§39 Jurisdiction and Governing Law.** German law applies. Place of jurisdiction is Munich, Germany. Bilingual publication (EN + DE); both versions are authoritative within their respective linguistic contexts.

**§40 Severability Clause.** Should any provision of this disclaimer be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected. Future modifications, updates, extensions, corrections, retractions, versioning, or discontinuation of any content are reserved to the author.

### DE — Kurzfassung Kerngehalt (§1–§40, Spiegelung)

**§1** Deskriptiv, nicht normativ. **§2** Keine Handlungsempfehlung. **§3** Keine Anleitung. **§4** Keine professionelle Beratung. **§5** Keine normative Position. **§6** Keine medizinische Position. **§7** Keine therapeutische Position. **§8** Keine diagnostische Position. **§9** Keine juristische Position. **§10** Keine moralische Position.

**§11** Akademische und Forschungs-Zwecke. **§12** KI-Assistenz-Offenlegung. **§13** Autor-Review durch Andreas Ehstand. **§14** 18+. **§15** Unabhängiges akademisches Projekt, keine externe Förderung.

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**§29** Empirische Aussagen unterliegen Peer-Review. **§30** Re-Kontextualisierung, kein Original-Prioritäts-Anspruch. **§31** Lebendiges Dokument. **§32** Refinement-Window. **§33** Priority-Anker (DOI + Multi-Hash + Bitcoin-OTS). **§34** Kein Vollständigkeits-Anspruch. **§35** Interpretation in Verantwortung des Nutzers.

**§36** EU AI Act Status: statisches Forschungs-Artefakt. **§37** DSGVO: keine Datenerhebung, kein Tracking, kein Profiling. **§38** Verantwortlich: Andreas Ehstand, Nepomukweg 7, 82319 Starnberg, Deutschland. **§39** Deutsches Recht, Gerichtsstand München. **§40** Salvatorische Klausel.

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## Verantwortlich

i.S.d. § 5 DDG (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz) / § 18 Abs. 2 MStV:
**Andreas Ehstand**, Nepomukweg 7, 82319 Starnberg, Deutschland.
Kontakt: augmanitai (at) gmail (dot) com.

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