What I'm working on now

Research

Most of my attention goes to ARCANA: a framework for modelling intelligence as relationships and evolving processes rather than isolated objects. It represents how patterns form, stabilise, change and recur across agents and groups, with every transition reproducible and auditable.

Four questions organise the work:

• Embodied agency. Reasoning proposes possibilities but cannot act alone. Bodily constraints, resources, care, social rules and explicit authorisation jointly determine what becomes action — so private internal state stays separate from public consequence.
• Memory and continuity. Memory is carried in how a system changes through experience, not merely retrieved from storage. Learned dispositions, exact state recovery, an evolving self-model, identity, public history and present authority are distinct relations, though they are usually collapsed into a single idea of memory.
• Reasoning as geometry. Structure defines possible connections, measurement establishes what the evidence supports, dynamics shapes candidates, and deliberation compares paths.
• Collective intelligence. A social layer handles causal evidence, cooperation, governance and repair — without reading private internal states.

Method

The programme is falsification-led: questions specified in advance, deterministic validators, machine-readable evidence, retained negative results and explicit limits. I direct AI coding agents across modular Python with optional Rust and CUDA paths, and promote only what survives replay and reuse.

Practice

I continue a first-person investigation of attention, embodiment and memory — Xingyiquan, Baguazhang and Taijiquan from a year in Hebei, gada and Kalaripayattu from India, and periodic Vipassana retreats. This runs alongside the architecture work rather than apart from it.

Where

Paris, France.