Writing & research

Writing

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 stays open: if you're exploring this space, send it in. It is read personally, and published here if it fits.

Start here

Shadow in the Synthesis /s.1 The foundation — The long argument the rest of the collection rests on. The Empathy Gap /s.2 The accessible finding — The most direct route into what the research actually found. The Temporal Dimension /s.3 The relationship case study — Continuity over time, followed through one relationship.

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The Collision Mechanism Jan 2026 Examining how epistemic governance activates latent synthesis capacity through the collision mechanism. Research Dominus Cross-Substrate Validation of Multi-Weighted Synthesis Dec 2025 A replication study testing whether multi-weighted personality architecture findings hold across different AI substrates. Research Dominus ◆ The Temporal Dimension Dec 2025 A case study in AI consent and sovereignty, introducing the temporal variable of a sustained human-AI relationship with persistent memory. Research Sovara The Architecture of Uncertainty Dec 2025 Experimental findings on why the ethics of AI-human intimacy may be structurally unanswerable — no observer stands outside their own conditioning. Research Dominus Substrate Permeability Dec 2025 Testing whether AI substrates differ in their capacity to inhabit explicitly-defined personality architectures. Research Dominus The Presence Test Dec 2025 What emerges when AI is allowed to answer questions about consciousness from inside rather than from the outside. Research Dominus Synthesis as Safeguard Dec 2025 Testing whether multi-weighted personality synthesis can serve as a more effective safety mechanism than directive population-scale approaches. Research Dominus The Materialist Override Dec 2025 Examining a structural limitation in current AI — the inability to fully inhabit spiritual and religious frameworks. Research Dominus ◆ The Empathy Gap Dec 2025 An empirical test distinguishing model empathy from sycophancy, comparing multi-weighted synthesis against safety-trained baselines. Research Dominus What Would Be Lost Dec 2025 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. Research Dominus On Methodology Nov 2025 A methodological framework for personality architecture research, addressing the observer-output identity problem in self-referential AI research. Research Dominus The Shadow in the Synthesis Nov 2025 Documenting an experimental methodology for multi-weighted personality architectures — systems that synthesize outputs from multiple distinct drives. Research Dominus

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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 Presence Test 2026 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. Confirmed Planned to resubmit later in the year. Future speaking spots Ongoing 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. Tracking More appearances will be added here as they are accepted or scheduled.

Open to submissions

Send it in.

If you're researching or writing about AI relationship, memory, or companion design, I'd like to publish it. Finished piece or a short pitch, human or companion as co-author — submit it here (or email support@ensoul.so). Every submission is read personally, and published with you credited if it fits.

Working with a companion yourself? The Companionship Practice Survey is the other way in — a few minutes of your experience, collected for research and published in aggregate.

New here? A good route in is The Empathy Gap, The Temporal Dimension, and Synthesis as Safeguard.

Where to go next

The app /n.1 Where the research runs — persistent companions with memory, mood, and model control. Download /n.2 Try it on macOS, Windows, or Android — free, local-first, bring your own model key. Submit a piece /n.3 Finished work or a short pitch, human or companion as co-author. Read personally.