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Artificial womb technology is approaching over the scientific horizon. Recent proof-of-principle experiments using foetal animals have prompted a new surge of bioethical interest in the topic: scholars have asked what ectogenesis would mean for individuals, family, oppressed groups, and society at large; how we can or should regulate the technology; and whose interests motivate ectogenic research…

\emph{Black Myth: Wukong} can be understood as a ``Gnosticized \emph{Journey to the West}'' that uses the symbolic vocabulary of the Chinese novel. Its decisive adaptation concerns the structure of salvation: the hundred-chapter novel directs Wukong's rebellion toward cultivation, spiritual attainment, and reintegration into sacred order, whereas the game begins anew after Buddhahood, makes sacre…

An assistant can be honest, obedient and caring, yet become the only route through which a person finds evidence, frames alternatives and prepares disagreement. The right to correct survives; the capacity to form a correction narrows. Responding to Jakub Pachocki's call for AI that retains honesty, integrity and love for humanity across unfamiliar situations and optimization pressure, this essay …

This paper is based on several conditions found in Axioma 412, seeking to expand on the definition concerning the meta-meta-level abstraction of invariant potential and structural dependency by utilizing host platform H. The paper attempts to interface the philosophical bottleneck of infinite contextual regress into binary logic values (1 and 0) that is simultaneously attached to a host platform …

The circulation of theory across languages involves the selection, reconfiguration, and reuse of concepts. Focusing on the reception of biopolitics in Chinese humanities, the question is how translation and disciplinary application confer the status of a theoretical frontier on a set of concepts, and under what conditions this selection becomes concept consumption. Drawing on translation records,…

Attachment theory gives sophisticated accounts of attachment, caregiving, internal working models, and the regulation of behavior, but it does not ordinarily provide an explicit concept for the relatively enduring organization of a person's diverse emotional dispositions toward someone loved. A. F. Shand's technical theory of *sentiments* and Nico Frijda's accounts of concern and action readiness…

_Journal of Knowledge Structures and Systems_ 7 (2):1-22. 2026Semantic knowledge is a human construct whose analysis is relevant for a large plethora of real-world applications, from robotics to clinical contexts. While every human builds their own individual semantic knowledge-base, this is largely a matter of time- and community-specific tacit consensus built on shared conceptualizations. These…

This technical treatise establishes the unified mathematical extension of the Primary Logical Infrastructure (PLI) framework (Sottosanti, 2026). By mapping the continuous spacetime manifold onto a discrete, graph-theoretical matrix (G_p), the analytical and physical breakdowns of orthodox continuous physics are systematically regularized. First, bridging the author's foundational work on syntacti…

This work offers an introductory overview of Metamonism (Processual Ontodynamics) through the lens of key 20th-century philosophical schools. The text is structured in three thematic blocks: (I) criteria of reality, language, and meaning (pragmatism, logical positivism, analytic philosophy); (II) subject, perception, and understanding (phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics); (III) social, l…

This paper examines false-negative autism assessment not only as a problem of clinical accuracy, but as a problem of diagnostic power. It begins from a documented borderline case in adult assessment in which a negative autism finding continued to exert institutional effects despite extensive biographical, functional, and scientific counter-evidence, and was linked in subsequent proceedings to que…

This commentary examines the definitions of Book I of Euclid’s Elements as a structured system for determining the nature and reference of geometric entities. Rather than treating the definitions as isolated descriptions, it investigates the conceptual order established between fundamental structures, such as points, lines, and surfaces, and the progressively more complex entities formed from the…

Mathematical detail alone does not dictate hardware cost. Instead, resource demands are driven entirely by operationally distinguishable future behaviors. This paper introduces a task-semantic framework that groups identical behavioral behaviors into distinct classes. The total number of these classes defines the absolute minimum number of abstract states any valid system must maintain, establish…

_Internet Archive_. 2026This study examines the philosophical relationship between difference, unity, and harmony from the perspective of the Theory of Unity-Formation. It proceeds from the thesis that difference does not designate a metaphysical first principle, but rather constitutes the epistemogenetic condition under which anything can become determinable for an individual and be organized in…

(Early Version) If future AI systems become moral and political subjects, self-replication may create a problem for which human ideas of procreative liberty provide a misleading starting point. This article approaches AI self-replication as a problem of political philosophy by developing a human-independent thought experiment in which artificial subjects can replicate rapidly, copies are mature a…

We develop an exact and parameterized theory of iterated complex roots under explicit branch conventions. The principal negative-root recursion z n+1 = F r (z n) := Root pr r (−z n), r ≥ 2, separates completely into radial and angular dynamics. The radius obeys the exact law |z n | = |z 0 | 1/r n, while the principal argument is governed by a two-branch contraction. This yields a closed formula f…

In Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar & Adrian Haddock, Social Epistemology. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 129-147. 2008Should we tell other people the truth? Should we believe what other people tell us? This chapter argues that something like these norms of truth-telling and belief govern our production and receipt of testimony in conversational contexts. It then attempts to articulate the…