Pulse

A Pulse is the smallest represented perception in Intention Space.

It is not simply a variable, event, property, or data field. A Pulse carries a phrase, a perceptual status, and an optional response area.

Pulse := <phrase, TV, Response>

The Pulse is where human-centred computation begins to become representable.

Phrase

The phrase is the semantic identity of the Pulse.

Examples:

"username"
"password entered"
"credentials valid"
"cart item selected"
"door open"
"human confirmed intention"

The phrase should be meaningful enough for a human designer to understand, not only convenient for code.

This matters because CPUX is not only coordinating data. It is coordinating represented perceptions.

The TV value is the trivalent status of the Pulse:

Y | N | UN

The TV value says how the perception currently stands inside a situation.

It is not merely a boolean. It is a way to hold affirmed, negated, and unresolved perceptual status without forcing premature certainty.

The Response area carries values associated with the Pulse.

For example:

<"username", Y, ["alice"]>
<"selected product", Y, ["P001"]>
<"credentials valid", N, ["false"]>
<"shipping estimate", UN, []>

In CPUX, Response can also support accumulation. O_holder may keep an ordered history of values across successive activations.

In the Green Light sample, the current light is represented as a Pulse:

{
  "phrase": "current light",
  "tv": "Y",
  "response": ["green"]
}

This does more than store a string.

It says:

If the value later becomes red, the Pulse can keep the same phrase while changing the response:

{
  "phrase": "current light",
  "tv": "Y",
  "response": ["red"]
}

The phrase remains stable. The situation changes.

A data field often says:

username = "alice"

A Pulse says more:

<"username", Y, ["alice"]>

This tells us:

The Pulse keeps the meaning closer to the human situation.

When defining a Pulse, ask:

What perception is this phrase making explicit?
Who or what has authority over its current status?
What response value must remain visible?

If those questions cannot be answered, the Pulse may be too vague.