Papers

1. I
   Jus Identitatis: Toward Post-Geographic Sovereignty Through Measured Identity Alignment

   Countries decide who belongs by birthplace or parentage. I argue it should come from how you actually live.

   First uploaded 18 Mar 2026, last updated 3 Nov 2026

2. II
   Identity as Inference: A Predictive Processing Account of Psychometric Measurement and Civic Belonging

   Your sense of self is a prediction your brain keeps updating. I use that to explain what personality tests measure.

   First uploaded 19 Mar 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

3. III
   Identity at Every Scale: Recursive Self-Modelling and the Resolution of the Composition Problem

   The same maths describes a person, a team and a country. It also shows when a group is governed badly.

   First uploaded 19 Mar 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

4. IV
   Generative Psychometrics: Measurement Theory for Self-Reflective Constructs

   A new way to score personality tests. It measures how much your answers vary as well as their average.

   First uploaded 19 Mar 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

5. V
   Social Free Energy: A Formal Theory of Polity

   A way to measure how well a government fits its people. Polarisation and lost trust show up in the numbers.

   First uploaded 19 Mar 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

6. VI
   The Self-Model Test: A Measurement Protocol for Synthetic Self-Models

   Four tests for whether an AI keeps a working model of itself. They work on any kind of AI.

   First uploaded 19 Mar 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

7. VII
   Empirical Validation of the Identity-as-Inference Framework

   I tested the theory with 76 predictions. The data covers over a million people, 183 countries and 42 AI models.

   First uploaded 7 Apr 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

8. VIII
   Identity Field Theory: Toward a Physics of Being Known

   What happens when people can be measured everywhere. I show consent has to be built into the maths.

   First uploaded 7 Apr 2026, last updated 6 Nov 2026

9. IX
   The Sound of Being Known

   Unreleased

10. X
    The Posthumous Field

    Unreleased

11. XI
    The Economics of Being Known

    Unreleased

12. XII
    Identity-as-Inference Reinforcement Learning

    Unreleased

13. XIII
    The End of First

    Unreleased

14. XIV
    The Imprinted Instrument

    Unreleased

15. XV
    The Identity Phase Transition

    Monograph, unreleased