Nagi Glossary
This glossary gives stable English readings for Nagi’s central terms. It is not a replacement for the Japanese vocabulary; it is a bridge for discussing the philosophy across languages.
Nagi (凪)
Literally, a calm sea or a lull in the wind. In this project, Nagi is not stillness as passivity. It is a condition in which many lives can breathe without one force taking over the whole field.
Non-Ownership (非所有)
A principle against forms of ownership that turn land, knowledge, culture, nature, infrastructure, or human attention into instruments of domination.
It does not mean abolishing personal life, homes, private memory, or the personhood of creators. It means loosening monopolies that prevent others from living, participating, caring, or inheriting.
Resonance (共鳴)
A relation in which different people, histories, cultures, and tempos can affect one another without becoming identical.
Resonance is not agreement, popularity, compliance, emotional synchronization, or a score of human worth.
Breathing (呼吸)
A social principle that restores pause, recovery, care, circulation, and intergenerational time.
Breathing opposes systems that treat uninterrupted speed, optimization, and productivity as the only measure of a good life.
Resonant Democracy (共鳴民主主義)
A democratic orientation that protects dissent, silence, refusal, and exit so that different voices can reach public decisions.
It is not a technique for forcing consensus. It does not treat silence as consent or disagreement as failure.
Exit (離脱)
The freedom to stop participating, choose another path, decline a system, withhold personal data, use a human route instead of an AI route, or leave a relationship with an institution.
Exit is not betrayal. It is one of the conditions that keeps participation voluntary and resonance real.
Re-breathing (再呼吸)
A regular process of review, repair, reduction, and renewal.
Re-breathing is not merely adding functions or expanding systems. It also means removing unnecessary surveillance, excessive automation, and centralizing power.
Basic Breath (基礎呼吸)
The social ground that must not depend on reputation, participation, contribution, ideological agreement, or AI use: access to food, housing, health care, education, communication, and culture.
Centerless Structures (中心なき構造)
A way of understanding society, culture, cities, states, and AI as layered and distributed realities rather than objects fully owned or directed from a single center.
Centerless does not mean irresponsible. It requires visible roles, shared accountability, and real ways to question power.
Social Systems (社会的装置)
Institutions, platforms, markets, media, organizations, public services, educational systems, and AI that coordinate people and shape attention, choice, relationships, and life chances.
They are not neutral merely because they are technical or administrative. When they affect people, their ethics must be built into their design.
The Ethics of Social Systems (社会的装置の倫理)
The principle that systems which coordinate people must not convert attention, behavior, relationships, time, or dissent into resources they own.
Such systems require visible purposes, explanations, contestability, refusal, exit, portability, alternatives, distributed accountability, audit, remedy, and the ability to stop.
Public AI (公共AI)
AI designed as an accountable, optional, plural public helper—not as a central authority, human-value scorer, or final decision-maker over rights and life conditions.
Translation note
The Japanese text is the reference edition for questions of philosophical nuance. This glossary may evolve through documented discussion and repair.