The Mycelial Mind

A structural investigation into coherence, contradiction tolerance, and safe intelligence.

The Mycelial Mind is a seven file research corpus on the invariants that govern safe reasoning in open world environments.

A Structural Research Corpus

It approaches intelligence as a constraint system rather than a vision: a set of structural boundaries, eliminations, and invariants that must hold if reasoning is to remain coherent under contradiction, uncertainty, and relational pressure.

What This Work Claims

Safe intelligence cannot be defined by scale, optimisation, or prediction accuracy alone.

It must be defined by invariants:
properties that remain stable under contradiction, uncertainty, and structural constraint.

What This Project Contributes

  • Formal development of structural invariants
  • Elimination of structurally impossible intelligence architectures
  • Reproducible methods for evaluating coherence under stress

These contributions are developed across conceptual, formal, and computational layers.

Core Research Questions

This work addresses three structural problems:

Coherence under contradiction
What properties allow reasoning systems to tolerate internal tension without collapse?

Architectural limits
Which proposed models of advanced intelligence are structurally impossible under bounded observability?

Observable evaluation
How can coherence be measured and preserved in open-ended, adversarial, or uncertain environments?

The Seven Files

The corpus is organised into seven coordinated documents:

  • Manuscript - Conceptual foundation and structural framing
  • Impossible ASI - Elimination of incoherent superintelligence architectures
  • Technical Supplement - Formal definitions, observables, and invariants
  • Toy Proof of Concept - Runnable recomputation and instrumentation schema
  • Supplementary Analyses - Extended proofs and constraint audits
  • Power Under Constraint - Architectural taxonomy and failure modes
  • Trajectories - Long-arc regime classification

Each file is readable independently.
Together, they form a closed structural system.

Evaluation Pathways

If you are new to the project:
→ Read About for provenance and posture.

If you are evaluating the technical claims directly:
→ Use Start Here for the LLM and human evaluation protocols.

If you want direct access to the documents:
→ Go to Seven Files to download and read the corpus.

Scope

This project does not propose a product, platform, or proprietary system.

It proposes structural constraints on intelligence systems.

Its contribution is diagnostic and evaluative:

  • Define invariants
  • Eliminate impossibilities
  • Provide reproducible evaluation methods

The goal is not optimisation.
The goal is coherence under pressure.

© The Mycelial Mind
A structural inquiry into coherence under contradiction and constraint.
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