A person may speak with authority about the fact and character of their own experience: what they perceived, felt, valued, or found meaningful.
PUBLIC STANDARD · VERSION 1.1
THE JCEE LABS CHARTER
Hypotheses may
begin anywhere.
Consequential authority cannot. This first-principle addendum joins ontological openness to evidence discipline, bounded authority, and human responsibility.
ADOPTED · AUGUST 31, 2026VERSION 1.0 FOUNDATION · PRESERVED
JCEE FIRST PRINCIPLE
Hypotheses may begin anywhere. Authority cannot.
First-person experience, intuition, coherence, imagination, serendipity, faith, love, and felt meaning may legitimately generate hypotheses, research questions, and human values.
They do not, by themselves, establish shared-world empirical claims, prove an external causal account, or create authority for consequential execution.
ONTOLOGICAL OPENNESSEMPIRICAL DISCIPLINE
Meaning may open the inquiry. Evidence governs the claim.
An experience alone does not establish an external mechanism, universal ontology, physical cause, or permission to impose a consequential interpretation on others.
JCEE may investigate unusual, intuitive, spiritual, consciousness-related, mathematical, or physical hypotheses when the claim, evidence, uncertainty, and consequence boundary remain explicit.
NON-CONSEQUENTIAL STATE NON-AUTHORITYPUBLIC GOVERNING RULES
What follows from the first principle.
State is not authority.
A model output, prediction, memory, simulation, belief, confidence score, or internal representation does not become consequential authority merely because it exists.
Unknown is not permission.
Missing evidence, ambiguity, timeout, convenience, or expected success cannot silently become authorization. Unresolved conditions remain unresolved.
Consequential authority must be current.
Permission for a real-world effect must come from the relevant authorized boundary and remain bound to the current evidence, scope, policy, state, and effect.
Human responsibility remains.
Intelligent software does not absorb responsibility from the people and institutions that choose its objectives, authority, deployment conditions, and tolerated consequences.
RELATION TO VERSION 1.0
The foundation remains in force.
Version 1.1 supplements rather than rewrites the August 4, 2026 Charter. Its commitments to falsifiable claims, preserved failures, bounded authority, durable evidence, responsible disclosure, and human accountability remain governing.
The preserved Version 1.0 page and Markdown remain available as the historical foundation. This successor addendum records the accepted first-principle layer without altering the earlier artifact.
PUBLICATION AND ACTION BOUNDARY
Openness expands what may be asked. It does not weaken what must be proved.
Every JCEE experiment, product, agent, architecture, review, and consequential-action system remains subject to evidence before judgment, current authority before effect, explicit uncertainty, and responsibility that resolves upward to the humans and institutions involved.