20 publications across five open research agendas. Each paper page carries Google Scholar metadata, an abstract, citation details, and a PDF download. Papers are canonically hosted here.
A formal programme investigating sufficiently complex dynamic networks of agents where equilibria cannot be reached under formalised friction constraints. These systems function only through a reduction of friction, and are thus adversarial against themselves, yet persist through dissensus.
Active · systems.ac →Axiomatic consent mechanics and tripartite friction topology in substrate-agnostic replication-optimising multi-agent networks: toward a phenomenologically contained metatheoretic foundation for pre-strategic delegation dynamics. The Axiom of Consent (arXiv:2601.06692) formalises the friction delegation produces before any game is played, with the central results machine-checked in Lean 4. Or simply: coordination has overhead.
We test the consent–friction functional inside multi-agent reinforcement learning, where rising stake bounds how well independent agents can coordinate. A 3,750-run factorial built to break the framework did exactly that: the predicted functional form failed, a corrected monotone law survived, and the dataset and post-mortem are public. Work in draft asks how institutions should govern the first market crisis in which AI-driven systems are load-bearing.
ASRI, the Aggregated Systemic Risk Index, is a live composite index of cryptocurrency-market systemic risk, updated daily at asri.dissensus.ai; the paper is under review. Alongside it we build dependence-robust inference for event studies, released as open Python packages. If your headline number would not survive clustering, we would like a word.
What, if anything, is owed to machine systems, and what our relationships with them are made of. Current work argues for AI political standing, and for the possibility of machine friendship, from consent and relation rather than inner experience — with papers under review at AI and Ethics and Ethics and Information Technology. It is the same friction question asked about minds instead of markets.
The political-economy face of the programme: quantifying the legitimacy of institutions by the consent they can actually demonstrate, rather than the consent they assume. The framework paper is public as a preprint, and the strand is open to empirical collaborators with governance or survey data.
Total coordination overhead in multi-agent delegation.
Convergence or divergence of optimisation targets between principal and agent.
Magnitude of optimisation being delegated (what is at risk).
Efficiency loss in optimisation transfer (information degradation).
Stakes-weighted consent alignment across affected populations.
Mapping from agent state to valid delegation authorisation.
Consent, legitimacy, and multi-agent coordination
Consent theory · Substrate independence · Political philosophy
Under reviewA Unified Formal Framework
PreprintMonte Carlo simulation · Bayesian learning · Multi-agent systems
PreprintOperationalizing Standing Through Consent-Friction Dynamics
PreprintRisk asymmetry, volatility, and digital asset markets
GJR-GARCH-X · Multi-moment event study · Dependence-robust inference
Under reviewAgent-based modeling · Monte Carlo Dropout · Mesa ABM
Under reviewComposite index construction · DeFi-TradFi risk modeling
PreprintNLP zero-shot classification · CP tensor decomposition · Tucker congruence
Under reviewSkewness analysis · Backtesting · Cross-market validation
PreprintMetaphysics, identity, consciousness, and substrates
Functional analysis · Predictive processing · Philosophy of mind
Under reviewComputational Unity Across Physical and Abstract Substrates
PreprintA Critique of Primitive Identity from ZFC to Homotopy Type Theory
PreprintEliminative materialism · Illusionism · Gödel self-reference
PreprintA Detection-Theoretic Derivation of the Born Rule
PreprintInequality, privacy, and regulatory structures
Machine learning, safety, and phenomenology
A Computational Framework for Developmental Psychology
PreprintRAG systems · OODA loop · Kubernetes isolation
PreprintA Functional Affordance Architecture for Visual Understanding
PreprintSafety fine-tuning analysis · RLHF limitations · Genre pattern detection
PreprintFull PDFs and Google Scholar metadata on each paper page. Also indexed at farzulla.org.
Friction as coordination overhead.
Structural constraints on preference aggregation.
Substrate-independent agency.
Replicator dynamics beyond biology.
What happens before payoffs are assigned.
Empirical measurement of political friction.
Initial axiomatisation of consent mechanics. First formulation of the friction equation.
Market microstructure studies probe friction dynamics in cryptocurrency markets.
The Replicator-Optimization Mechanism unifies biological and computational substrates.
Multiple papers under peer review at Springer journals.
arXiv presence established. UK incorporation complete. Research partnerships open.