BUREAU DISCLOSURES / NO FINE PRINT REQUIRED

A very limited authority.

The Bureau of Consciousness Licensing is an invented, unofficial institution by Alexis Gallagher. A license signifies a passing submission on conceptual distinctions and arguments. It confers no legal authority, professional qualification, or special access to the truth.

Your examination

Fifteen questions are drawn from a balanced bank. Twelve correct answers qualify. There is no countdown, no required philosophical position, and no lifetime limit on retries. Short request limits keep the service available. The exam is open book; proxy test-taking and assistance are not policed.

What we keep

Issued licenses persist in the database: a random identifier, optional self-declared handle, UTC issue date, and examination version are public. The public record contains no score. Private ownership is represented by a hash of a random browser cookie; the secret cookie is not stored in the database.

Temporary examination questions, results, and submitted answers are private. Completed attempts are removed after seven days; unfinished attempts after thirty days without reopening them. Issued licenses survive cleanup. Answers in progress are saved in this browser when browser storage is available.

Your browser is your editing key

An essential cookie retains private access for up to one year, renewed when you open the examination. There is no account signup or recovery service. Clearing cookies, switching browsers, or losing the cookie loses editing access. Save the public URL to return to the license. An optional handle can be changed or removed from the issuing browser.

Limits of verification

Handles are not reserved or ownership-checked. The database record is authoritative; an image can be copied or edited. Sharing a matching record from your account lets others associate it with you. It does not prove who took the examination.

Service data

No application analytics, email collection, X integration, or runtime AI calls. The hosting provider processes network requests. Temporary daily hashes of IP addresses are used for request limits and removed after their limit window expires. They are pseudonymous abuse-control data, not a promise of anonymity from the hosting provider.