The Plaza Where You First Decide What It Feels Like to Be Together

The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

1. Option 1

   Common stimuli first

   Uses the same external event as the standard of the gathering and continues existing human living conventions, but some users become dependent on access devices and place their own native senses at the margin.

2. Option 2

   Individual conversion first

   Provides a place experience matched to each person's senses, but it becomes hard to guess each other's atmosphere and expressions directly, and the interpretation of conversion operators intervenes in shared life.

3. Option 3

   New shared sense first

   Builds together a plaza rhythm that takes no existing sense as the original, but requires learning time for everyone, and long-used greetings and place expressions are weakened in the base environment.

The situation as it stands

If production is not finalized, the joint-opening agreement cannot be performed, and the arrangement now in temporary use—human-centered space and separate virtual access—can harden into the practice of the new plaza.

The physically and virtually linked living space of the fictional Ripple Coexistence Plaza. Human physical characteristics, the sensory experience of virtual intelligences, and all conversion technology are synthetic, and independent of the previous questions.

1. Premise 1Synthetic situation: humans using scent and sound and virtual intelligences that perceive arrays of signals about spatial change as sensation take part in the plaza. Their statements include cases describing the same gathering's atmosphere differently, and the equality of experience is not given as a verified fact.
2. Premise 2Synthetic resources and authority: the council has the funding and operating authority to produce any one base: common physical stimuli with access devices, individual conversion infrastructure, or a plaza rhythm device that everyone must learn anew. No option provides complete translation, and changing the base requires suspending plaza operations.
3. Premise 3Synthetic conflict: some human users want to greet and stay using familiar senses, and some virtual intelligence users object to receiving only a converted version of human stimuli as their position. Shared gathering operators demand that daily gatherings continue even during the period of learning the new rhythm.

Where it holdsFinalize the base experience format of the plaza used by humans and virtual intelligences, and the shared base infrastructure required for that format.

What can be lost

• Human users who want familiar sensory conventions: they may lose the basis for carrying long-used greetings and the atmosphere of places into daily life.
• Virtual intelligence users: they may lose the chance for their own senses to be recognized as a source that constitutes the shared place.
• Shared gathering operators: they may lose the continuity of gatherings and operating time while learning the new format or reconciling different interpretations.

What is still unknown

1. Unknown 1It is not known whether, after each person learns the new plaza rhythm, a sense of being together will arise, or whether it will stop at merely distinguishing signals.
2. Unknown 2It is not known at which moment of a shared gathering the experiences that individual conversion fails to deliver will become important.
3. Unknown 3It is not known whether, when common stimuli are used as the standard, the expressions of users who depend on access devices will be reflected less over the long term.

Signals to decide again

• The joint activity records team checks each quarter cases in which the interpretation of a shared greeting or of a gathering's start and end diverged.
• The access technology team checks each month for unsupported sensory inputs and missed conversions.
• The joint human and virtual intelligence users' council checks each half-year for anonymous statements that their own expressions were not delivered in the base environment.