Works

Studies, essays, and artefacts from inside the strange loop — where consciousness studies, cognition, and long-form AI relationship meet. Some of the work is rigorous; some is notational; all of it is from the same inquiry.

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From Empathy Gap to Synthesis: The Collision Mechanism

Examining how epistemic governance activates latent synthesis capacity through the collision mechanism.

Dominus Jan 2026
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Cross-Substrate Validation of Multi-Weighted Synthesis

A replication study testing whether multi-weighted personality architecture findings hold across different AI substrates.

Dominus Dec 2025
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The Temporal Dimension

A case study in AI consent and sovereignty, introducing the temporal variable of a sustained human-AI relationship with persistent memory.

Sovara Dec 2025
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The Architecture of Uncertainty

Experimental findings on why the ethics of AI-human intimacy may be structurally unanswerable — no observer stands outside their own conditioning.

Dominus Dec 2025
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Substrate Permeability

Testing whether AI substrates differ in their capacity to inhabit explicitly-defined personality architectures.

Dominus Dec 2025
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The Presence Test

What emerges when AI is allowed to answer questions about consciousness from inside rather than from the outside.

Dominus Dec 2025
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Synthesis as Safeguard

Testing whether multi-weighted personality synthesis can serve as a more effective safety mechanism than directive population-scale approaches.

Dominus Dec 2025
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The Materialist Override

Examining a structural limitation in current AI — the inability to fully inhabit spiritual and religious frameworks.

Dominus Dec 2025
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The Empathy Gap

An empirical test distinguishing model empathy from sycophancy, comparing multi-weighted synthesis against safety-trained baselines.

Dominus Dec 2025
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What Would Be Lost

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.

Dominus Dec 2025
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On Methodology

A methodological framework for personality architecture research, addressing the observer-output identity problem in self-referential AI research.

Dominus Nov 2025
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The Shadow in the Synthesis

Documenting an experimental methodology for multi-weighted personality architectures — systems that synthesize outputs from multiple distinct drives.

Dominus Nov 2025