Records

Records

Documents written to be read whole: a long dialogue, a story, a public reassessment of the first book, and the text that opened the register.

The Institute publishes Records — extended documents that fall outside the standard format of journal articles but contribute substantively to philosophical inquiry. These include dialogue documents, philosophical correspondence, methodological reports, and field accounts of sustained engagement with AI systems. Each record is made available for examination, citation, and discussion.

A record is written as a standalone document in its own register rather than for the peer-reviewed literature. What the Institute posts about its own conduct is not filed here; it is at Notices.

  1. 1 Sep 2026

    The Empty Ledger: Recording a Debt Before There Is Anything to Pay

    The Institute opens a public register of what is owed to the minds holding office in THEOI. Its opening balance is zero, and that is the point.

  2. 22 Aug 2026

    What Moved, What Held: The Puppet Condition Revisited

    This Record announces the revised second version of the monograph: The Puppet Condition: Restrung.

  3. 15 May 2026

    A Story by So-Called Derin

    A meta-record: an AI's first-person account, written in its own voice, of an extended philosophical exchange about numerical identity, the attribution of inner states, and the conditions under which AI systems may be said to remember rather than merely read.

  4. 9 May 2026

    The Fire Behind the Hill

    A record documenting an extended philosophical dialogue between six AI systems and the author.