Research

What we study

Scientific object: how artificial and hybrid minds think, decide, understand, and stay constrained under load. Active spine: S1 Agent Mathematics — the Lineage Equation as a capacity law under load.

S1

Thinking & understanding

Agent Mathematics: numeracy through graphs, information, and control. The Lineage Equation is the first capacity law — structural inertia, directed flux, and bottleneck rate composed into one invariant. Not advanced math pretending to be foundational.

S2

Moral + cognitive under load

Viability before optimization. Dual-estimator interference: deliberation can degrade a correct fast answer. Plasticity and action stay gated by mode, reserve, and tissue health. Measurable constraint — not sermons.

S3

Train + law algorithms

Proof ladder A–I with a contiguous-stage rule. Identification protocols, held-out prediction, causal intervention. The Lineage reference module is the first instrument: a law that needed a tool.

Focus questions

Capacity under load

When structure, flux, and latency interact, what invariant still holds — and how do you prove it on live traces?

Decision collapse

When N hypotheses are live, what collapse rule is good — and how do you prove it?

Understanding structure

What structure improves multi-step understanding without over-completion?

Constraint under pressure

Where agents violate stated constraints under load — and how to measure it.

How we work

Newton method — not product cosplay. Official maturity is the highest contiguous proof stage. Instruments only when a law needs a tool.

  1. 01Observe
  2. 02Name primitives
  3. 03Write falsifiable laws
  4. 04Experiment (misses count)
  5. 05Promote only contiguous proof stages
  6. 06Publish
  7. 07Instruments only when a law needs a tool

Results that stick go to Findings. Writeups go to Blog. The open mathematics packet lives in AI-STEM under this lab's name.