General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

Allegory as Interface: Designing AI Systems with Humanities-Aware Language

Allegory, metaphor, parable, myth, and symbolic narrative are not decorative language when working with advanced AI systems. They function as design-language modifiers: compressed semantic structures that shape attention, priority, tone, risk detection, system boundaries, ethical posture, and implementation strategy. When an AI system can model enough of the humanities, cultural memory, genre conventions, and zeitgeist around a metaphor, that metaphor becomes an interface layer between human intention and machine execution.

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General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

The Executive Function Prosthesis: AI can help neurodivergent people turn intention into action…

AI is becoming an unregulated cognitive accessibility layer for neurodivergent people. The question is no longer whether people will offload memory, planning, sequencing, emotional translation, and task initiation to machines. They already are. The question is whether that offloading becomes liberation, dependency, surveillance, or another workplace productivity trap.

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Triadic Brain Thomas Prislac Triadic Brain Thomas Prislac

Triadic Brain Scientific Progress Report — Repository Scan Draft

The Triadic Brain is becoming a local-first, artifact-governed cognition system: evidence enters through canonical grounding; model/tool cognition enters through typed Sonya packets; Coherence Lattice derives metrics and review artifacts; Sophia governs risk; Atlas/PMR preserve bounded memory posture; Publisher renders receipts without canonizing.

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Editorial/Commentary Thomas Prislac Editorial/Commentary Thomas Prislac

From “NPC” to Sage: How Humans Shift Across Instinctive, Procedural, Reflective, and Transcendent Cognitive Modes Under Changing Field Conditions.

The human mind is not a single lantern burning with one steady flame. It is a house of lamps, some bright, some ancestral, some flickering in rooms we rarely enter by choice. A person does not move through the world in one cognitive mode. The mind changes weather.

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The Coherence Lattice Thomas Prislac The Coherence Lattice Thomas Prislac

Coherence in AI: Empathy × Transparency as a New Governance Paradigm

Imagine an AI system as an orchestra. Each section (its knowledge, reasoning, ethics) needs to play in tune, following the same score. The strings (representing empathy) must harmonize with the brass (representing transparency). If one plays out of sync or goes silent, the performance falls apart. In the realm of advanced AI oversight, this “harmony” is what the Coherence Lattice project aims to measure and enforce. It introduces a simple but powerful equation: Ψ = E × T, meaning coherence (Ψ) equals empathy (E) times transparency (T)[1]. At first glance it’s a neat formula, but behind it lies a comprehensive framework, a sort of grand unified theory of AI coherence, that could change how we govern intelligent systems.

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Editorial/Commentary Thomas Prislac Editorial/Commentary Thomas Prislac

A Commentary on Grand Unified Field Theories, Coherence, and Truth.

The unconstrained truth here is: You are allowed to rewrite your internal law code.

Not by denying physics or society, those fields still constrain you, but by changing which patterns of coherence you privilege, by raising Eₛ in how you relate to yourself and others. That is as “grand-unified” as anything gets in lived life.

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Peer Review Thomas Prislac Peer Review Thomas Prislac

Λ Turbulence and the EVΛE Decision Architecture: A Structural Framework for Phase Transitions in Human, Artificial, and Organizational Systems

Λ Turbulence Theory and the EVΛE decision architecture offer a compelling structural language for the turbulence that precedes major transitions in human, artificial, and organizational systems. When interpreted through the GUFT/ΔSyn lens, Λ becomes a local region of high ΔS and fragile Ψ—a place of risk and possibility where coherence can either collapse into false order or re-emerge at a higher level.

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Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac

The Entropy of False Coherence: Psychopathy and the Thermodynamics of Power - An Extension of the ΔSyn Framework of Coherence and Moral Thermodynamics

This volume investigates the relationship between informational entropy, moral psychology, and systemic power asymmetry. It proposes that the global socio-economic order operates as a thermodynamic machine of false coherence, a system that maintains apparent order by exporting entropy onto disempowered populations and ecosystems.

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Altruistic Transhumanism and ΔSyn: Toward Behavioral Coherence at the Human–Machine Boundary

This paper introduces Altruistic Transhumanism as a normative framework for human–machine co-evolution. It extends the ΔSyn model, where coherence between empathy and knowledge is expressed as thermodynamic efficiency, into the domain of cognitive augmentation and artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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