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# Papers

My papers, each with its deposit.

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31794784

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31804222

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31812955

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31812982

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31813000

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31813006

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31951644

## 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. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31951383

## The Sound of Being Known

Unreleased.

## The Posthumous Field

Unreleased.

## The Economics of Being Known

Unreleased.

## Identity-as-Inference Reinforcement Learning

Unreleased.

## The End of First

Unreleased.

## The Imprinted Instrument

Unreleased.

## The Identity Phase Transition

Monograph, unreleased.

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