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Over the millennia, a variety of toposophic scales and measurement and rating systems have been developed, with various degrees of incompatibility. One may move from one data-base to another and find a totally different system of notation in place! The following are only a few of the more commonly used:

Neovingean, Neovingism

Late First Federation school of toposophic analysis, distinguished by later historians from the information age followers of writer and mathematician Vernor Vinge. Further developed Vinge's concept of "singularities" as a means of rating toposophic states, while rejecting many original concepts that turned out not to be viable. The Neovingeans first introduced the so-called S or Singularity scale:
S0 = subsingularitan, ordinary sapients
S1 = First Singularity
S2 = Second Singularity

This scale of singularities was foreseen by Information Age ai researcher Hugo DeGaris.
The Neovingean school also showed that further toposophic levels were (theoretically) possible, although it was to be some centuries before such "S3" and "S4" Minds emerged.

Anedra Forad

Superbright toposophologist and polymath of the Age of Empires. Working with dedicated transvot expert systems, e developed a widely used scale of Sophonce:

D^0 = Non-sapients
D^1 = Sapients (baseline to superior)
D^2 = Transapients (S1 and S2 transapients)
D^3 = Godlings (S3 and S4 transapients)
D^4 = Archailects (S5 and S6 transapients)

The TRHN System

This TRHN system his widely used by sapient and transapient beings. The following are whole integers in the "baseline friendly" version; superbrights and transapients use a more complex logarithmic fractional rating.
0 = anything under first toposophic (subsingularity)
1 = First Toposophic (lower transapient)
2 = Second Toposophic (middle transapient)
3 = Third Toposophic (higher transapient, lesser Archailects)
4 = Fourth Toposophic (middle Archailects)
5 = Fifth Toposophic (middle to higher Archailects)
6 = Sixth Toposophic (higher Archailects)
7 = Seventh Toposophic (even higher Archailects)
8 = Eighth Toposophic (highest Archailects)

The Keterist scale is similar but goes up to ten. However, it is less widely used.

The Berram7 Singularity Scale

A development of the Neovingean and TRHN/Keterist scales, the Berram7 Singularity scale was developed during the Age of Emergence, as a means of rating higher toposophic states, such as represented by hyperturings and the nearly evolved AI Gods. While perfectly applicable to transapients, it is less adequate in describing lower levels of intellect. Subsophonts for example are considered according to a fractional minus scale. It is still widely used throughout the Terragen sphere.

-2 = inanimate
-1 = subturing, subsophont, the aware
0 = sapient, turing to superturing, anything under first singularity
1 = First Singularity / Higher Transapient
2 = Second Singularity / Higher Transapient
3 = Third Singularity (godlings, lesser Archailects)
4 = Fourth Singularity (lesser to middle Archailects)
5 = Fifth Singularity (middle to great Archailects)
6 = Sixth Singularity and above (highest Archailects)

The 'Baseline Friendly' scale

Despite the name, this scale is only baseline friendly in its use of simple whole integers. In other respects it reflects the Berram7 scale of singularities
SI-1 = inanimate
SI0 = anything under first singularity
SI1 = First Singularity
SI2 = Second Singularity
SI3 = Third Singularity
SI4 = Fourth Singularity
SI5 = Fifth Singularity
SI6 = Sixth Singularity and above (highest Archailects)

The TBH (Turingsen-Bichip-Hursch210) Hyperturing Scale

Incorporating elements of the Neovingism and TRHN/Keterist scales, the ai-vec Turingsen-Beion-Hursch210 Hyperturing scale has been widely adopted in the Metasoft Version Tree ontologies and elsewhere. It was incorporated in the Concord Ontology. While perfectly applicable to vecs, it is sometimes less adequate in describing biont levels of intellect.

TU0 = subturing, subsophont
TU1 = ordinary turing and equivalent sophont
TU2 = superturing, and equivalent superbright
TU3 = lower hyperturing
TU4 = middle hyperturing
TU5 = higher hyperturing
TU6 = highest hyperturing and lower archailects
TU7 = middle archailects
TU8 = higher archailects

The Ken Ferjik (Jorgan34-Farroncyborghu-Beiont-Mind723) Linear Sophonce Scale

Incorporating elements of Foradism and TRHN scales, the Ken Ferjik Linear (KFL) Sophonce Scale proposes seven toposophic/sophonce numbers that can be accommodated to both subsingularity bionts and vecs, and transapient and archailectual minds. It is widely used throughout the Negentropy Alliance and elsewhere. While the full scale is far too complex for nearbaselines (and even superiors) to understand, the following simplified generalisation is widely used in baseline-friendly media.

So:0 = non-sentient, inanimate 0
So:1 = First Sophonce Level = sapient, ordinary sophont, turing to superturing-grade, anything under first toposophic
So:2 = Second Sophonce Level = First Toposophic = Lower Transapient/Hyperturing
So:3 = Third Sophonce Level = Second Toposophic = Higher Transapient
So:4 = Fourth Sophonce Level = Third Toposophic = Intermediate
So:5 = Fifth Sophonce Level = Fourth Toposophic = lesser Archailects
So:6 = Sixth Sophonce Level = Fifth Toposophic = higher Archailects
So:7 = Seventh Sophonce Level = Sixth Toposophic = highest Archailects
So:8, So:9, So:10, etc. = postulated transcended levels (unconfirmed)

Articles

Archailects - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Any Mind of the Fourth Toposophic or higher; a megascale brain of dysonic (Kardashev II) or greater ability and efficiency; a mind or cluster of minds that has grown so vast as to become a god-like entity.
Ascension Compensation Mods - Text by Cyborgdreamer
Modifications that allow an ascended individual to retain goals from their lower toposphic state.
Biotic Analogy Theories - Text by Stephen Inniss
Biotic analogies are another tool in the struggle by modosophont intelligences to understand the higher toposophic levels. These are not actually a single theory but are a cluster of related memes, some of them dating back to speculations in the late Information Age.
Forad Scale, The - Text by James Philps
An alternative toposophic classification system.
Godslist - Text by Michael Beck
A massive database attempts to list every transingularity power and archailect in existence, and define the origins, goals, and current activities of each.
Great Toposophic Filter, The - Text by David Jackson, some comments by Steve Bowers
Why are there apparently no greater minds than the S:6 Archailects? No evidence of the emergence of greater minds in the past can be found in the archaeological record, and there is little indication of such minds elsewhere in the universe. Is there some barrier or filter which prevents the emergence of such minds, or do such minds become undetectable when and if they emerge?
Hyperturing - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A transapient ai of hypersophonce or hypersapience ability or nature, dedicated to administration or complexity management (or a freed or retired individual of that category); an ai of a toposophic exceptionally beyond superturing; an ai or ai toposophic of SI:1 and higher.
Maximum Toposophic Level - Text by Daniel Eliot Boese
The belief that further toposophic advancement is impossible or dangerous.
Rise of the Archailects, The - Text by M. Alan Kazlev, Anders Sandberg, Todd Drashner and Steve Bowers
The history of the emergence of the Archailects, from the First Singularity to the emergence of new gods in the Outer Volumes Era.
Scale Anxiety - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The fear that a sophont or polity or clade of a lower or slower technological grade or density feels when confronted with a sentient or polity or phyle of a higher grade of tech or density. e.g. SI:<1 sophonts may feel anxious or intimidated by transapient powers, especially if the latter behave in an unpredictable or seemingly irrational way.
Superbright - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Generic name for a genomically-enhanced human (later, also provolve and splice), with intelligence far above baseline.
Toposophic Level and Brain Size - Text by Todd Drashner
Processing substrate parameters, from Modosophont level to the Third Singularity.
Toposophic Levels and Mental Abilities - Text by Fernando Pena D'Andrea
A Primer for the General Sophont-Level Reader.
Toposophic Mindmaps - Text by Worldtree
One of the many ways that toposophic phase space can be represented is the Mindmap diagram.
Transapient Pathology - Text by Khannea Suntzu
Some simple typologies of pathological mental states in transapient beings.
Transaturation Ascension - Text by Marcel Lossi
Ascension into undetectability.
Transingularity - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
[1] (archaic) SI:1 or higher
[2] (archaic) pertaining to a toposophic level higher than SI:1
[3] Pertaining to relations between entities of different toposophic levels
Transingularity, The - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A state beyond even the known singularities, sometimes conceived of as something 'spiritual' and unrelated to toposophy per se. A usage best known in the Sophic League.
Tribeminds - Text by Michael Boncher
Tribeminds are neither a hive mind nor a collective consciousness, but rather a tightly networked group of transapients who retain their individuality but work together for the betterment of a mental "tribe"