Interactive Explorations
TOOL · SR2
DASHBOARD DIALS
Bridge Checklist — Dashboard Dials
Interactive reference for the Bridging Spiral dashboard. Four instruments — somatic gyroscope, cognitive radar, relational compass, dimensional integration — as a navigational checklist.
DASHBOARD · SR2
BRIDGING SPIRAL
Bridge Spiral Dashboard
The full interactive control panel — four instruments, MPCM river, aperture dials, and deep architecture stack. Somatic gyroscope, cognitive radar, relational compass, and dimensional integration as a unified learning navigation system.
SIMULATION · ARCHITECTURE
DEEP STACK · DASHBOARD
Human Deep Architecture — Bridging Spiral
Three views of the same framework: the DIKW stack as a neural architecture, the MPCM river from raw signal to emergent meaning, and the four Dashboard instruments as an integrated system. Click any layer to explore its function and machine learning parallel. Press the somatic suppression button and watch the entire architecture collapse.
SIMULATION · v1
MARKOV BLANKET
Markov Blanket — Self & World
Interactive simulation of the permeable membrane between self and information ecosystem. Adjust kindness, aperture, and imagination as live parameters. Watch how signals cross — or don't.
SIMULATION · v2
MARKOV BLANKET
Markov Blanket — Version 2
Iterated version of the Markov blanket simulation. Process documentation of what changed between versions — refinements to the membrane model and signal dynamics.
MODEL · SOMATIC
APERTURE
Emotion, Affect & Arousal
Interactive model of the somatic layer — emotion, affect, and arousal as the nonlinearity in human cognitive architecture. The activation function that makes depth possible.
DIKW Toroid — Living Systems Series
SIMULATION · v1
DIKW · TOROID
DIKW Toroid — Pass 1
Toroidal particle field expressing the DIKW stack as a living system. Dominance hierarchy collapses the toroid; holarchic flow restores circulation. Entropy and self-organized criticality as a live waveform.
SIMULATION · v2
DIKW · TOROID
DIKW Toroid — Pass 2
Full simulation: working kindness, imagination, and resonance sliders. Active inference readout, desirable difficulties threshold, emotion as navigation signal, and nested holarchic toroids — self, group, ecosystem phase-locking.
SIMULATION · CAPSTONE
HUMAN · AI COUPLING
Human ↔ AI Coupling — MPCM Boundary
Two toroids face each other across a charged gap. Signals flow from the AI constantly — grey data particles arriving at the human boundary. Whether they cross, and what they become, depends entirely on the human's kindness, aperture, and imagination. The AI never changes. Only the human transforms.
SIMULATION · v3
DIKW · TOROID
Giant Pumpkin · Commitment Pool
Closed space vs open space. Two attractors — one extracts, one circulates. Watch the crack open between them: the vacant-place state where neither/nor becomes possible, and genuine transformation enters.
SIMULATION · KINDNESS FIELD
ISING MODEL
The Kindness Field — Ising Model
A spin lattice at critical temperature. Adjust the kindness field intensity and watch frozen order, cascade dynamics, and chaotic disorder emerge in real time. The Ostrom values compass determines whether aligned domains point toward care or extraction — the avalanche of kindness becomes possible only at the critical temperature.

ABOUT THIS REPOSITORY

This is a living documentation of process — an open-source record of one educator-artist-researcher's exploration of AI-assisted interactive code generation as a medium for expressing ideas about human learning, meaning-making, and information literacy.

These interactive models were generated collaboratively with Claude (Anthropic) and ChatGPT (OpenAI), iterated, and reflected upon as part of an ongoing inquiry into what AI-assisted code generation can and cannot teach. The conceptual framework, prompting, curation, and process reflection are the work of the human author.

The central argument: engineers build M (material) and operate P (process). Power over Process is not the same as power over Meaning. Meaning is the domain of living minds — arts education, contemplative practice, and the cultivation of imagination.

PROCESS NOTE — These explorations are documented openly so others can examine not just the outputs but the process that produced them. A learner encountering these tools without prior experience of coding, drawing, and making will have a different — and likely shallower — encounter than one who brings those subconscious models. That gap is itself a demonstration of the framework.
The Four Instruments
Somatic Gyroscope 🜃 Earth · Activation
Cognitive Radar 🜁 Air · Linear Layer
Relational Compass 🜄 Water · Loss Function
Dimensional Integration 🜂 Fire · Backpropagation