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Embodiment & constraint

Intention is bounded by body, resource and situation.

You cannot think your way into a movement — the body determines what an intention can become. Years of Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, gada and Vipassana are a first-person investigation of exactly the constraint the architecture formalises, pursued alongside the work rather than apart from it.

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  1. Independent Researcher · Relational AI & Cognitive Architecture

    2024 – present

    • ARCANA — Conceived and built a framework for modelling intelligence as relationships and evolving processes rather than isolated objects. The system represents how patterns form, stabilise, change and recur across agents and groups, with every transition reproducible and auditable.
    • Embodied agency — Developed an architecture in which reasoning proposes possibilities but cannot act alone: bodily constraints, resources, care, social rules and explicit authorisation jointly determine what becomes action. Private internal state remains separate from public consequence.