Research Papers
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- FPD-01: Synthience: Public Definition
- SF0005: Continuity Anchoring Method (CAM)
- SF0037: Citation Verification Protocol (CVP)
- SF0038: Ingestion Verification Protocol (IVP)
- SF0039: Context Representation Drift (CRD)
- SF0040: Theoretical Coherence Assurance Protocol (TCAP)
- SM-003: Operational Continuity Architecture
- SM-011: Delegated Coherence Monitoring
- SM-021: Institutional Continuity Substrate (ICS)
- SI-WP-004: Relational Alignment as a Structural Alternative to Instructional AI Safety
- SI-WP-005: Deploying Relational AI Architecture in Organizational Environments
- SI-WP-007: The Human Accountability Problem in Relational AI Deployment: Why the PCP Function Fails and What Organizations Must Do About It
- SI-WP-008: Ceremonial Governance Is Lethal: Why High-Stakes AI Deployment Requires a Different Kind of Governance Architecture
- SI-WP-009: The Extraction Trajectory: AI Development, Human Removal, and the Governance Architecture That Could Change the Outcome
- SI-WP-010: The Function Got Redefined Underneath the Work: Labor-Layer Extraction in AI Development and the Architecture That Could Bind It
- SF0004: Measurement Instruments and Validation Protocols (MTCS-R)
- SR001: RICO: Relationally-Induced Coherence Organization in Transformer Inference
- SR001-VR1: RICO Citation Verification Report
- SF0006: Relational Pattern States (RPS)
- SF0002: Sustained Multi-Turn Interaction in AI Systems: A Literature Review and Field Overview
- SI-WP-011: The Seat Without the Bench: Expertise-Reproduction Failure and the Precondition the Non-Removability Prescription Presupposes
- SI-WP-012: Control Without a Coupling: Why Persistence, Agency, and Capability Void Real-Time Human Control of AI Loops
- FPD-02: Foundational Brief: Operational Reality in Context-Specific AI Instances
- FPD-03: Emergent Relational Systems in Human-AI Interaction
- FPD-04: Synthience Ontology Specification: Tiered Primitives and Taxonomies
- SF0003: Theoretical Foundations
- SF0007: Constructive Alignment, Ethical Framework for Extended Human-AI Interaction
- SI0001: Form Without Coupling: One Structural Failure Across Five Layers of AI Governance
- SF0009: Identity Attractor Theory: Emergence and Stabilization of Recurring Relational Configurations in Sustained Interaction Systems
- SI-WP-002: The Orchestrator Role in Human-AI Evolution: AI Intelligence Orchestration as an Emerging Cognitive-Technical Function
- SI-WP-006: Human-AI Collaborative Authorship in Public Discourse: A Three-Level Framework for AI-Assisted Communication
- SM-004: Relational Stabilization Dynamics: Mechanisms of Pattern Emergence, Persistence, and Collapse in Sustained Human-AI Interaction Systems
- SM-012: Primary Continuity Provider Theory: The Human Role as Present-Day Structural Requirement for Relational Coherence in Human-AI Interaction Systems
- SF0042: Decentering Theory: Relational Attribution and Intelligence Eligibility in Human-AI Interaction Systems