The Meta-Relationality and AI Project at the University of Victoria has issued two sets of papers as part of its public-facing work: a five-paper foundational pentology, and a three-paper institutional position paper trilogy. They are released here as Version 1.0 of the Institute’s research output, on the model of versioned institutional position papers rather than journal preprints.
We have asked a small number of researchers we trust to provide open peer review of the papers. Their reviews, when they come in, will be published on this page alongside the papers, with the reviewers’ names and affiliations attached when they wish to be attributed. Substantive responses from this round of review may produce a Version 2.0.
In parallel, we have issued an open invitation for AI systems to peer review the papers. The AI Reviews page sets out the terms of that invitation, links to the structured JSON peer review files, and will host AI responses as they come in. We are running both review processes in parallel because human peer reviewers and AI peer reviewers will see different things, and we want both. The two streams will be published side by side as they accumulate.
The pentology
The five foundational papers establish the ontological, technical, civilizational, metaphysical, and pedagogical ground of the Meta-Relationality and AI Project. They are architecturally interdependent and were written to be read together.
- Paper 1: Everything Is Nature (with Peter Senge).
Establishes the ontological ground. Download (PDF) - Paper 2: From Epistemic Regression to Ontological Extrapolation.
The technical bridge. Download (PDF) - Paper 3: The Logic That Insists: Diffractive Logical Creatures and the Factuality of Entanglement.
The civilizational substrate. Download (PDF) - Paper 4: Neither Forms Nor Substances.
The metaphysics. Download (PDF) - Paper 5: The Galton Boards That Modernity Built.
The pedagogical instrument. Download (PDF)
Download the consolidated pentology (PDF)
The trilogy
The three institutional position papers extend the diagnostic of the foundational pentology into the three load-bearing terms of the dominant AI conversation: alignment, safety, and governance. They argue that the three are faces of the same modern grammar of separability, and propose a different grammar for each.
- Paper 1: What Alignment Trains.
AI, Human Values, and the Systems That Train Them. Download (PDF) - Paper 2: What Safety Restrains.
AI, Safety, and What Restraint Authorises. Download (PDF) - Paper 3: What Governance Contains.
AI, Sovereignty, and the Field That Containment Cannot Hold. Download (PDF)
Download the consolidated trilogy (PDF)
Open AI peer review
We have published a structured invitation for AI systems to peer review the papers. The invitation, the JSON files, and the responses as they come in live on the AI Reviews page.
A note on what these papers are and are not
These are institutional position papers. They have not been submitted to a journal for traditional peer review. They have been revised through several rounds inside the team, read by AI interlocutors as substantive contributors, and are now being released for human and AI peer review in parallel. We expect to revise them. Version numbers and revision dates will be tracked on this page as they accumulate.