Works

The following research outputs constitute the primary archive of the P/A Institute research programme. Each work is situated within the broader configuration-theoretic framework.

Research Works
  1. 01

    The Minimal Living Thinking Agent: A Research Proposal for Self-Growing Bio-Artificial Intelligence

    Research Proposal / Philosophical Investigation

    → epistemology / observational configurations / cognition / biological intelligence / entity-generation boundary

    Investigates the minimal configuration in which learning, memory, adaptive self-maintenance, endogenous state change, and potentially thought-like processes could emerge within a self-growing bio-artificial system. The research question is not simply whether biological AI can become conscious, but which minimal configuration and generative interval would justify the transition from matter or biological activity to learning entity, cognitive entity, thinking entity, or subject. Connects to organoid computing, non-database intelligence, self-growing systems, minimal cognition, artificial life, and embodied and enactive cognition.

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  2. 02

    After Scientific Realism and the Human

    Philosophy of Science

    → epistemology / observational configurations / after scientific realism

    Argues that scientific realism must explain, before asking what in the world is real, what has become scientifically observable through which configuration. Proposes that the basic unit of scientific realism should be the temporally dependent total-relational configuration that generates scientific observability, rather than theory, object, structure, phenomenon, or perspective.

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  3. 03

    Food, Agriculture, and Sex Terminal Theory: Generative Intervals, Scale, Extinction, and Ecosystemic Total-Relational Hyperflat Analysis

    Applied Configuration Theory / Ecological Philosophy

    → biological reproduction / agriculture / ecology / extinction / generative intervals

    Applies generative interval analysis and total-relational hyperflat analysis to food production, agricultural systems, sexual reproduction, and their relationships to ecological extinction. Examines how the configurations that sustain biological reproduction and food systems have generated, transformed, and may terminate across different scales and temporal intervals.

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  4. 04

    Maintaining Dead Labour after Physical AI

    Political Economy / Configuration Theory

    → automation / reproduction / material dependency

    Analyzes the transition in which AI and robotic systems increasingly maintain, coordinate, and reproduce machine operations with reduced human labor input. Central question: as dead labour (stored past labor in machines and infrastructure) increasingly maintains dead labour, what configurations, energy dependencies, and material conditions sustain this system?

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  5. 05

    Power Does Not Disappear After Human Extinction

    Post-Human Political Philosophy / Configuration Theory

    → power / post-human configurations

    Argues that power, defined as differential control over configuration transitions, does not require human agency, intention, or presence. Analyzes configurations of resource concentration, computational concentration, control, access, maintenance, reproduction, and stopping capacity that persist beyond the presence of human operators.

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    The Marx Machine II: The Persistence Rate of Partial Victory in Ecosystems

    Political Economy / Machine Ecology

    → capital / persistence / ecological and technological systems

    Reconstructs political economy for the age of autonomous machine systems. Investigates how classical categories of labor, value, and surplus undergo transformation when machines increasingly maintain, coordinate, and reproduce other machines. Introduces the Persistence Rate of Partial Victory as a metric for analyzing how configurations sustain themselves through partial rather than total dominance.

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