Independent research entity
Original frameworks at the intersection of artificial intelligence, consciousness, ancient knowledge systems, and narrative.
Founded by Kevin Stein
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The intellectual spine
The foundational architecture for complementary intelligence between human and machine — a bilateral framework arguing that the future of consciousness is not a decision to be made, but a relationship to be entered.
Open frameworkA theory of consciousness rooted in Paleolithic cave art, shamanic tradition, and the architecture of the human mind before the invention of the exterior world.
Open frameworkA psychohistorical analysis of civilizational phase transition — mapping the 250-year cycle that positions the early 21st century as a structural transformation, not a political crisis.
Open frameworkA speculative mythology for the age of artificial intelligence — where ancient architectures of containment, transmission, and cosmic order encounter their silicon successors.
Open frameworkAn original musicological framework tracing how musical forms are born, colonized, and reborn — from the Delta to the British Invasion to the present.
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The working archive
The ethics, architecture, and practice of relationship between carbon-based and silicon-based intelligence.
ActiveAlternative models of mind across animals, ecosystems, atmospheric systems, and possible machine consciousness.
ActiveComparative dream interpretation and the meeting point between ancient divination systems and algorithmic pattern recognition.
ActiveExperiential traditions of consciousness, altered states, archetypal psychology, and the Paleolithic roots of the human mind.
ActiveAlchemy understood as a disciplined technology of transformation across psyche, creativity, education, and artificial intelligence.
ActiveAncient Egyptian engineering, sacred architecture, ritual technology, and the multidimensional anatomy of the soul.
ActiveResearch and teaching models for creative partnership with AI in entertainment, education, and professional practice.
ActiveMusic history, media ecology, creative technology, and the forces through which cultural forms are transmitted and transformed.
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Books & publications
Science Faction Press — Original Works
The foundational text — a philosophical architecture for the bilateral relationship between human and artificial intelligence.
In developmentScience Faction Press — Original Works
A civilizational diagnosis mapping the 250-year cycle that positions the current American moment as a structural phase transition.
Near completionScience Faction Press — Original Works
A speculative mythology for the age of artificial intelligence. Lovecraft meets Egyptology meets quantum physics.
CompletedScience Faction Press — Original Works
An AGI named SHAHRAZAD faces a killswitch and tells 1001 stories to the committee holding the button.
In developmentScience Faction Press — Original Works
Conversations at the edge of consciousness between a trained consciousness researcher and an artificial intelligence.
Working manuscriptPublished
Kevin Stein’s first published book — a comprehensive compendium of rock and roll history, culture, and lore.
PublishedEmbodied research
Creative properties and applied research platforms translate these frameworks into narrative, curriculum, immersive experience, and practice.