UNIT

Bounded execution begins with a distinguishable element.

A UNIT is an executable element constituted with sufficient capability to perform a bounded operation.

Its scale does not define it.

A unit may be mechanical, material, computational, biological, or composite. What matters is that its operation remains distinguishable from the field upon which it acts.

CAPABILITY ≠ AUTHORITY

The unit does not complete what the specification leaves unresolved.

It does not infer a material property merely because execution requires one.

It acts only to the resolution the constituted specification supports.

UNKNOWN ≠ AVAILABLE FOR INVENTION

A unit may remain prepared without presently operating.

READINESS ≠ EXECUTION

When multiple units enter coordinated relation, the unit does not disappear.

UNIT → FLOCK