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One idea underneath, two separate projects. The idea: abstract things are real things, and a real thing can be checked. The projects check different objects — one checks what a text does to a reader, the other checks what a machine claims. They do not share a method and they are not stages of each other.
You have five minutes. Try something first; read the arguments after.
One · ten minutes
The quick test
An instrument that measures what a text does to the person reading it — whether it organises them or disorients them, whether it moves them closer to the world or further from it. Two ratios decide; the size of the move does not.
- The measuring bench — interactive →
Three distributions, two ratios, one point on the plane. Nothing leaves the page. - The essay it comes from → (in Italian)
What it concludes. Which tools were used to write something — any tools, models included — is a coefficient in the equation, never a load-bearing term. What carries the value is observation, selection and recombination, and those stay with the author.
Two · the interesting part
Lab · Post-cognition
Validating what a machine claims
A different object and a different method: an external, auditable procedure that fixes what kind of claim is on the table before asking whether it is true. Ontology precedes epistemology.
- The abstract and the three falsifiable claims →
- The coding manual: how it is applied by hand →
- What counts as introspection →
The note where a result from outside forced a premise to be narrowed. Kept in the log rather than quietly fixed.
Three · the other half
The editorial work
Twenty years inside publishing. Not the argument for either project — the reason both have something at stake.
Four · plainly
What is in English
The research is written in English because its readers are. The essays are written in Italian because their subject is.
In English: the paper and its back matter, the whole research log, the measuring bench, this page and the About page. In Italian: the essays, the curated links, the concept index and the map of the site. That is the shape of the project, not a gap in it — the two languages are doing different work, and the Italian archive is not a translation waiting to happen.