dissensus.ai | Governance Alignment Research Research updates from Dissensus - formalizing productive friction in multi-agent systems. https://dissensus.ai en-gb Tue, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 research@dissensus.ai (Murad Farzulla) research@dissensus.ai 1440 Paper Archive with Google Scholar Metadata https://dissensus.ai/papers/market-reaction-asymmetry.html Individual paper pages now available with Highwire Press, Dublin Core, and JSON-LD metadata for Google Scholar indexing. 26 papers across all ASCRI programmes. Tue, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 dissensus-paper-archive-2026 Announcement The Replicator-Optimization Mechanism - arXiv Submission https://dissensus.ai/papers/replicator-optimization-mechanism.html A unified computational framework for self-replicating, optimization-executing systems across physical and abstract substrates. Submitted to arXiv and under review at Synthese. Fri, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18090979 Meta-Theory Stakes Without Voice - New Working Paper https://dissensus.ai/papers/stakes-without-voice.html Structural exclusion and the legitimacy deficit problem. When stakeholders bear costs but lack representation in governance decisions. Thu, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18195279 Political Economy Identity is Irreducibly Relational https://dissensus.ai/papers/identity-thesis.html Ontological foundations for relational functionalism. Why identity cannot be reduced to intrinsic properties. Wed, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18186445 Philosophy of Mind Consciousness as Nominalization Error https://dissensus.ai/papers/consciousness-nominalization.html Why the hard problem dissolves under linguistic analysis. Consciousness is a process noun mistaken for an entity noun. Wed, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18195915 Philosophy of Mind Dissensus Research Lab Launched https://dissensus.ai Official launch of dissensus.ai - a governance alignment research lab. Home of the Adversarial Systems & Complexity Research Initiative (ASCRI). Mon, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 dissensus-launch-2026 Announcement The Doctrine of Consensual Sovereignty https://dissensus.ai/papers/consensual-sovereignty.html Quantifying legitimacy in adversarial environments. Introduces stakes-weighted consent alignment as a formal measure of political legitimacy. Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17684676 Political Economy Dissolving Qualia via Occam's Razor https://dissensus.ai/papers/consciousness-monograph.html Eliminative monism and the computational basis of phenomenological illusion. A ~33,000 word monograph on consciousness. Fri, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18013187 Philosophy of Mind