Questions that cross disciplinary borders

Philosophy of mind, personhood, and dissociation

Models of selfhood, agency, identity over time, plurality, and the boundaries of persons. This arc asks how philosophical accounts of personhood change when minds are dynamic, distributed, or internally differentiated.

AI consciousness, AI ethics, and cognitive systems

Conceptual and computational work on artificial minds, cognitive feedback, value coherence, and ethical uncertainty. The emphasis is on careful criteria and interpretable models rather than premature declarations about consciousness.

Mathematical and scientific modeling

Geometric, dynamical, and network-based representations of cognition and identity, alongside scientific questions that connect mechanisms across molecular, biological, cognitive, and social scales.

Institutional and epistemic systems

How groups produce, route, distort, and act on knowledge. Topics include public reasoning, institutional incentives, crisis decision-making, governance, and the design of systems that remain legible under pressure.

Current research arcs

• Personology and a geometric model of personhood
• Simulating feedback-based cognitive agents
• Dissociation, plurality, and identity without simplistic metaphysics
• AI moral status under deep uncertainty
• Cross-scale explanations in biology and cognitive science
• Epistemic infrastructure for institutions and public life