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Instances | AutonomousAgent | Something or someone that can act on its own and produce changes in the world. |
| CognitiveAgent | A CognitiveAgent is an AutonomousAgent that has the ability to reason, deliberate, make plans, and experience emotions. Although Human is a subclass of CognitiveAgent, there may be instances of CognitiveAgent which are not also instances of Human. For example, Primates, dolphins, whales, and some extraterrestrials (if they exist) might be considered CognitiveAgents. |
| Deity | A Deity is a CognitiveAgent with the rank or essential nature of a god. Includes both monotheistic and polytheistic gods. |
| Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| Object | Corresponds roughly to the class of ordinary objects. Examples include normal physical objects, geographical regions, and locations of Processes, the complement of Objects in the Physical class. In a 4D ontology, an Object is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into spatial parts roughly parallel to the time-axis. |
| Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| SentientAgent | A SentientAgent is an AutonomousAgent that is capable of Perception and experiences some level of consciousness (see ConsciousnessAttribute). If the AutonomousAgent is able to reason at a comparatively high level (evinced by the ability to learn, plan, and feel emotions), then it is also an instance of CognitiveAgent. A DomesticAnimal is a SentientAgent, but may or may not be a CognitiveAgent, depending on the type of Animal. |
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