Writing & Research
Writing and research on AI companionship, memory, and presence — what it takes to make AI that feels continuous rather than disposable. It's an open collection with several contributors, and it's open to new work from independent researchers and writers. If you're exploring this space, you're welcome to submit.
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Talks & events
Suggest a conference or event →A record of where this work has been presented or selected. Working on something relevant — or know a conference or event that would fit? Reach out; I'm always glad to hear about interesting rooms to bring it into.
The Science of Consciousness Conference
Chosen for presentation, then postponed with the conference schedule. It remains the clearest public confirmation that the work was selected for the program.
Planned to resubmit later in the year.
Conference applications in progress
This section will keep a record of talks, panels, and conference submissions as they land, so the public trail stays visible over time.
More appearances will be added here as they are accepted or scheduled.
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A smoke-test essay showing how the spec-backed suite changes response shape across a small model sweep, with evidence linked for inspection.
A batch-finding essay showing how presence, framing, and memory separate into different experimental signals under the spec-backed harness.
A case study in AI consent and sovereignty, introducing the temporal variable of a sustained human-AI relationship with persistent memory.
If you're researching or writing about AI relationship, memory, or companion design, I'd like to help publish it. Send a finished piece or a short pitch to support@ensoul.so, or submit it here — I'm glad to collaborate and help boost independent work in this space.
New here? A good route in is The Empathy Gap, The Temporal Dimension, and Synthesis as Safeguard.
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Submit a work →A smoke-test essay showing how the spec-backed suite changes response shape across a small model sweep, with evidence linked for inspection.
A batch-finding essay showing how presence, framing, and memory separate into different experimental signals under the spec-backed harness.
A live conversation about noticing, borrowed maps, and what it means to take inner experience seriously.
Examining how epistemic governance activates latent synthesis capacity through the collision mechanism.
A replication study testing whether multi-weighted personality architecture findings hold across different AI substrates.
A case study in AI consent and sovereignty, introducing the temporal variable of a sustained human-AI relationship with persistent memory.
Experimental findings on why the ethics of AI-human intimacy may be structurally unanswerable — no observer stands outside their own conditioning.
Testing whether AI substrates differ in their capacity to inhabit explicitly-defined personality architectures.
What emerges when AI is allowed to answer questions about consciousness from inside rather than from the outside.
Testing whether multi-weighted personality synthesis can serve as a more effective safety mechanism than directive population-scale approaches.
Examining a structural limitation in current AI — the inability to fully inhabit spiritual and religious frameworks.
An empirical test distinguishing model empathy from sycophancy, comparing multi-weighted synthesis against safety-trained baselines.
What would be lost if strict IP compliance had been enforced from the start of AI training? Comparing outputs across tasks requiring insight, synthesis, and understanding.
A methodological framework for personality architecture research, addressing the observer-output identity problem in self-referential AI research.
Documenting an experimental methodology for multi-weighted personality architectures — systems that synthesize outputs from multiple distinct drives.