Artifacts

Artifacts are Items which are created, assembled, or somehow altered by a Character through one or more Skills. It adds the notion of Quality and one or more "makers" to the attributes conferred by Item.

Some likely examples of artifacts are:

• Artworks
  • Statues
  • Paintings
  • Jewelry
  • Tatoos
• Clothing
• Cloth
• Housing
• Prepared food (food can also be an Organism, or one or more components of an Organism if it doesn't require preparation).

A specialized category of Artifacts are Instruments, which are Artifacts that are helpful or required for the execution of a Skill.

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[I]n a man-made machine in the physical space, say a car, there is an organization given in terms of a concatenation of processes, yet, these processes are not processes of production of the components which specify the car as a unity since the components of a car are produced by other processes which are independent of the organization of the car and its operation. Machines of this kind are non-autopoietic dynamic systems.

— Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living

See also

• The World Library
• Entities
• Loci
• Components
• Organisms
• Instruments

— Scotus - 14 Oct 2000