A clear doorway into better decisions.
RippleLogic is the MathGov decision engine for rights-constrained, ripple-aware ethical governance. It helps people, institutions, and AI/hybrid systems ask one disciplined question: what is the best feasible action after rights violations, catastrophic risk, and larger-system harm are ruled out?
What RippleLogic is
RippleLogic is a practical ethical operating system. It does not ask decision-makers to be perfect. It asks them to be clear: name the stakeholders, identify the harms, protect the floor, measure the ripples, document the reasoning, act, and learn.
Union-based
Decisions are evaluated across nested Union Scopes: Self, Household, Community, Organization, Polity, Humanity/CMIU, and Biosphere.
Ripple-aware
Actions are scored through impacts across seven welfare dimensions: Material, Health, Social, Knowledge, Agency, Meaning, and Environment.
Auditable
Serious decisions produce a traceable record: assumptions, evidence, gate results, weights, uncertainty, and reviewable conclusions.
Important boundary: Cosmic and Universal/AIU language can guide humility and long-range orientation, but the current Tier 1-3 scoring stack uses seven operational Union Scopes. The horizon inspires the work; the operational framework stays measurable.
The governance spine
The current Canon does not treat ethics as one blended score. It uses a strict cascade. Earlier gates decide feasibility. Welfare ranking happens only after unsafe options are removed.
Plain-language rule: do not violate rights, do not gamble with ruin, do not hollow out the larger system, then choose the best remaining option.
The NCAR learning loop
NCAR is the everyday practice layer: Notice, Choose, Act, Reflect. It turns RippleLogic from a document into a repeatable habit of better perception, cleaner choice, and honest learning.
Notice
Name the real decision, the affected stakeholders, the time horizon, and the uncertainty.
Choose
List options, test the gates, estimate ripples, and select from the feasible set.
Act
Take the smallest clean action that moves the system toward better alignment.
Reflect
Compare predictions to outcomes, update assumptions, and improve the next run.
Where SGP fits
The Sentience Gradient Protocol (SGP v5.3) is the moral-status and protection interface for beings whose welfare may matter across substrates. It asks when evidence is strong enough to justify protection, while keeping crucial boundaries intact.
Protection
SGP helps determine when an entity should receive welfare-relevant moral consideration and protection under uncertainty.
Standing
Plateau standing is a constitutional status, not a prestige score. Human persons remain at the full rights plateau by normative commitment.
Authority
Protection does not automatically create governance authority. Authority requires separate responsibility, competence, alignment, and role-fit review.
- SGP is not a consciousness oracle. It is an auditable protection protocol under uncertainty.
- Fluent language is not proof of sentience. Self-report, emotion-like words, or intelligence alone are not sufficient.
- SGP cannot reduce human rights. Human persons remain full rights-plateau stakeholders regardless of measured capacity.
- SGP cannot bypass RippleLogic gates. SGP-derived welfare scalars may inform welfare-stream ranking only where the canon permits.
How to use this site
Start simple. Then go deeper only as the stakes require. A personal reflection and a high-stakes institutional decision should not require the same level of rigor, but both should follow the same ethical spine.
Use this page to understand the purpose, the cascade, the NCAR loop, and the SGP boundary.
Read the full operating logic: Union Scopes, dimensions, NCRC, TRC, Containment, RLS, UCI/HOI, PCC, and Refusal.
Use a quick NCAR run for daily decisions, or a deeper worksheet/PCC-style record for institutional or AI-governance decisions.
For serious implementation, use the v10.6 Canon and SGP v5.3 release files as controlling sources.
Current public release
The current public package is MathGov / RippleLogic v10.6 + SGP v5.3, a Tier 1-3 core-foundation and synchronized companion release. It is architecture-complete within its declared scope and ready for public review, education, implementation pilots, and tooling development.
Claim boundary: this release does not claim empirical validation, ProofPack completeness, Tier 4 readiness, legal certification, deployment certification, completed biological SGP measurement, machine-verifiable ecosystem completeness, or current-AI sentience.