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The Anatomy of ~WellbeingIdentity

Eight concentric identity nodes, their canonical facets, and the consent boundary around a living state.

Observer Attention Is All You Need · v0.8 · edition history · Moses Sam Paul Johnraj

Canonical identity anatomy

The rings are the nodes.

Select a ring to inspect its complete registry-backed facets. No personal facet values are used in this teaching view.

Given identity

Given identityFull Name · National Id · Birth Date+9 more

Selected ring

~~GivenIdentity

Starting coordinates that precede choice.Given or legally anchored identity context.

~~~FullNameFull legal or chosen name.
~~~NationalIdNational identity reference.
~~~BirthDateBirth date.
~~~BirthPlaceBirth place.
~~~SexSex marker.
~~~LanguageLanguage context.
~~~NationalityNationality context.
~~~CitizenshipCitizenship context.
~~~ReligionReligion context.
~~~CasteCaste or caste-community context controlled by Consent And Disclosure.
~~~GeneticsGenetic context.
~~~DIDDecentralized identifier.

One person, eight concentric views

~WellbeingIdentity is not a profile placed at the end of a transaction. It is the living state from which an observed moment begins and to which scoped results may return.

The concentric rings express a social fact: identity is layered without becoming eight separate people. Inner rings locate conditions and formations. Outer rings hold capability, narrative, changing state, and the governance of disclosure. No ring is a universal ranking.

Identity stock

Three nodes describe relatively slow-changing coordinates and accumulated formation.

~~GivenIdentity contains legally or socially anchored context that precedes choice. Its facets include name, birth context, language, nationality, citizenship, and highly sensitive attributes whose use requires particular care.
~~EarnedIdentity contains education, certifications, work experience, and portfolio evidence accumulated over time.
~~RentedIdentity contains identity surfaces hosted by external systems: social platforms, publishing accounts, code repositories, websites, and contact locators.

“Slow-changing” does not mean permanent or public. It means these nodes usually change at a different tempo from a feeling, thought, or activity.

Capability, orientation, and narrative

Three nodes answer different questions that institutions often collapse.

~~Skills asks what the person can express, at what level, with what evidence, and along what trajectory.
~~MoralCompass asks what values, virtues, and explicit ethical boundaries orient action.
~~Story asks how the person understands past, present, future, turning points, and vision.

Capability is not character. Declared values are not proof of conduct. A story is not a permanent verdict. Keeping the nodes distinct prevents one kind of evidence from quietly impersonating another.

Current state and governance

~~IdentityState is the changing convergence layer. ~~~WellbeingScore, ~~~ScoreHistory, and ~~~ProtocolConvergence can locate current state and provenance without becoming the whole identity.

~~ConsentAndDisclosure is the outer architectural boundary. Its facets govern disclosure policy, selective disclosure, facet-level rules, audience scopes, consent grants, expiry, and revocation.

Consent is therefore not a checkbox beneath the identity. It is the gate through which information may leave or return.

The rings describe one person. The outer ring governs which part of that description may travel.

Evidence and limitation

The interactive atlas above reads node and facet names from the canonical registry and uses the shared product renderer. It demonstrates a coherent representation grammar. It does not establish that every facet should be collected, scored, disclosed, or used in every context.