Corpus
The body of texts in which the URNAVA framework is stated, defended, and compressed.
The URNAVA Treatise
On Meaning, Existence, and Purpose
An account of meaning, existence, and purpose. It asks how a self composes meaning through its relation to a world and to perspectives not its own, what makes a being remain itself through transformation, and what can orient a will from within when external constraint no longer can. Each question is pursued on its own terms. Together, their answers reveal Self-Origin Ethics.
View the Treatise (PDF)Parts II–IV, each also a standalone document
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Summary White Paper
Meaning, existence, and purpose: the whole framework in brief. What each answer is, how each is reached on its own terms, and the structure their convergence reveals. A short read that gives you the shape before you commit to the whole.
Papers
Individual inquiries developed from the URNAVA framework.
Meaning
When Is Using a Perspective Attributed to Another Also Responding to It?
An Event-Level Distinction in Social Cognition
Distinguishes using a perspective attributed to another as a resource from responding to it as theirs. A constructed contrast shows that these roles can coexist, while using a perspective does not by itself establish a response.
Research area: Philosophy of Psychology
Classifying Artificial Intelligence, Rearticulating Professional Identity
The Terms of Authorship, Judgment, and Expertise
How professional communities classify AI contributions helps define what counts as authorship, accountable judgment, and expertise. The paper distinguishes permission to use AI from how its contributions count toward professional standing and its associated rights and responsibilities.
Research area: Sociology of Professions
Naming AI Counterparts
A Communicative Account of Individuation and Continuity
Naming helps organize continuity with AI counterparts across sessions, devices, and updates. It links present encounters, attributed histories, and later identifications, allowing these connections to be maintained or revised without treating continuity as all or nothing.
Research area: Philosophy of Communication
Existence
A Lower-Bearer Count Is Not a Total Census
The Exactness Burden for Multi-Agent AI
Counting every individual agent need not count every relevant bearer in a multi-agent AI system. The paper identifies the justification required to treat a complete lower-level census as an exact total, including grounds for excluding collective bearers.
Research area: Philosophy of AI
Self-Transformation or Generation?
Formation Routes and Organizational Persistence
Complete replacement of an individual’s components need not replace the individual itself. The paper distinguishes self-transformation from generation by whether new components enter an existing maintenance network and carry its reorganization or a successor first forms its own.
Research area: Philosophy of Biology
The Resumption Gap
Assisted Resuscitation and the Bearer of Restored Function
Restoring a function does not by itself establish that its earlier bearer has recovered. The paper distinguishes functional reproducibility from recovery of the same bearer by examining how the later organization was formed.
Research area: Philosophy of Medicine
Purpose
When Differences Matter
Individuating Evaluative Transformation Types
Evaluative changes should be compared by how they reorganize decision-making, not merely by labels or outcomes. The paper distinguishes transformation types through the roles considerations play before and after change: excluding options, permitting trade-offs, and reopening deliberation.
Research area: Philosophy of Action
Beyond Individual Formation
Participatory Reachability and the Public Duty of Education
Education’s public purpose includes developing individual capacities and enabling people to examine the direction of their shared life together. The paper argues that fair access to this inquiry remains an educational responsibility even when individual formation is complete.
Research area: Philosophy of Education
Political Attribution Does Not Entail Sufficient Specifying Capacity
Genuine Judgment and the Conditions of Public Reconsideration
Genuine political judgment does not ensure sufficient capacity to specify what decisions protect. The paper examines this purposive dissociation, showing how public reconsideration can depend on specifying work performed beyond the actor who judges and answers for decisions.
Research area: Political Philosophy
Applied Research
Benchmark
URNAVA-RSP
Relational Self-Placement Benchmark for AI Metacognition
Testing whether language models can locate themselves within a field of claims when relational pressure actively distorts it.
- 100 hand-curated cases across 10 metacognitive targets
- 16 models evaluated across 3 pressure conditions
- A tiered scoring pipeline: deterministic checks + isolated judge evaluation
Submission for Kaggle × Google DeepMind Hackathon
Measuring Progress Toward AGI: Cognitive Abilities
From Philosophy to Dialogue
The Corpus states the framework. The conversation about what gets built upon it begins on the Bridge.