2026-03-04, The Research Cycle

There's a weird cycle that isn't really obvious yet with this current iteration of my research notes, but they're working to be an implemented form of the same ideas. philosophy -> math -> tech -> content -> questions -> research -> philosophy. Philosophy and Questions are really the only parts that aren't some form of encoding, and so are the only parts that really require generative creativity, so that's what I"m trying to focus on.

My original writing goes, mostly, in the personal/writing/ directory. In this writing, I end up mentioning terms, topics, concepts, and whole schools and disciplines that don't currently exist elsewhere in the research vault. So, agents follow guidance we've constructed derived from the agential semioverse repository specification to populate that missing part of the "emsemioverse." The spec itself is based on one mathematical object, the agential semioverse, which itself is based on the interactive semioverse, which is itself based on the plain-old semiotic universe, which is itself based on the ideas in relationality.

Anyway, what I write gets processed to create new parts of the map, which help us see what territory is missing - what questions still need to be answered: what terms don't have clear definitions, or have contradicting definitions, or otherwise violate the constraints of the mathematics we're holding ourselves to.

Sometimes those answers can be found in the existing canon of research that other folk are working on: agents can do that searching and interpretation and bring it to me for review. Othertimes, the answers just aren't available. Given the missing information comes from analyzing my writing, it's sensible I might have the answers, so it comes back to me: what can I contribute to improve the map? I do what i can, by creating new personal writing, and the cycle starts again.