This page will be regularly updated with various research and projects I am working on.
This is where you will be able to find my original publications on exciting and expansive topics. Stay tuned.
Nyreth.ai #
(Created March 2025)
Nyreth is a dynamic symbolic cognition engine, encoding multidimensional glyphic meanings, traversing resonance fields recursively, evolving meaning morphogenically, and constructing cognitive architectures beyond conventional AI paradigms. This can allow deeper insights in areas that AI currently, can only superficially mimic.
Nyreth is a recursive symbolic system for structuring cognition, language, and epistemic emergence. It is not merely a philosophy, nor a semantic tool, but a cognitive substrate: a designed architecture for higher-order reasoning.
The demo release is available on my github and more info on the project can be found at nyreth.ai
The Polarity Statement Taxonomy #
(Created March 2025)
In March 2025, I defined a new term called a Polarity Statement, which I introduce here for the first time (8 May 2025). Below, you can read a taxonomy, comprehensive description, applications and implications stemming from the phenomenon. It has great relevance for psychological research, political discourse, diplomacy and high stakes debates of any sort. There is also an interactive companion educational app to illustrate how Polarity Statements work in practice, across many different contexts and levels of complexity.
The python version of the app can also be downloaded at my github - it's open source, and can be freely used by anyone so long as they credit the creator.
Definition
Polarity Statement (n.)
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A single, semantically symmetrical statement containing opposing interpretive vectors, such that two or more mutually exclusive perspectives can each affirm the sentence as true from within their own framing, while simultaneously rejecting the other’s interpretation, despite referencing the same linguistic structure. The sentence functions as a semantic fulcrum, around which opposing perceptions can pivot.
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A cognitive Möbius strip: one continuous surface of language, twisted by perspective into interpretive contradiction, appearing two-sided only because perception bends it. Truth flows in opposite directions across the same words - not because of ambiguity or imprecision, but because the audience’s stance determines how it is interpreted.
This is a symbolic and cognitive-linguistic phenomenon that, though widely experienced, has not previously been formally defined. Polarity statements expose the underlying geometry of belief and the mechanics of interpretive conflict. They trace how language encodes ideological fault lines, allowing two readers to affirm opposite truths without altering the text - only the lens through which it is understood. The concept offers a symbolic model for understanding truth, rhetoric, and the structural origins of conflict and polarisation.
| RELATED CONCEPT | WHY IT IS SIMILAR | WHY IT IS DIFFERENT |
|---|---|---|
| PARADOX | Holds two opposing truths | Often self-contradictory or structurally unstable |
| DIALECTIC | Opposites create synthesis | Assumes evolution or resolution |
| AMBIGUITY | Allows multiple interpretations | Often vague or context-dependent |
| EQUIVOCATION | One word, different meanings | Suggests deception or imprecision |
| PERSPECTIVE DEPENDENCE | Truth varies by viewpoint | Doesn’t imply symmetrical internal structure |
| FRAMING EFFECT | Lens affects perception | Not intrinsic to sentence structure |
Polarity statements appear most often in politics, ethics, philosophy, poetry and current affairs. Understanding polarity statements can help to explain why some conflicts resist resolution: not from ignorance, but because participants interpret the same language from opposing faces of a semantic loop. It shines light on how convictions are formed, how language mediates contradiction, and how truth can echo from opposite ends of the same sentence.
The Polarity Statement Taxonomy (PST)
Please wait a few seconds if this is the first time.
Schimara - Introducing a new word #
Schimara was created early in 2025 and is a beautiful word to describe a beautiful phenomenon. The word is composed from the German schimmer (meaning a shimmer or glimmer, faint glow, a lingering impression, trace, haze, flicker), Greek mnene (meaning memory, imprint), and Latin aura (a breath, atmosphere, lingering presence).
The word was born out of the following feeling – a previously unnamed emotion: a presence on the fringe of perception, sensed by not quite realised. Something in between grief and nostalgia, not quite loss but an awareness of the transience of the moment. A moment of purity that will end almost as soon as it began – it’s a place where joy and sadness exist simultaneously but without contradiction.
It's a moment so delicate it barely survives awareness, but yet somehow towers over all else. Schimara is marked by temporal fragility, a lingering taste of something too precious to last, like the sear of the summer sun on your skin at dusk, like the ripple on a pond, a rainfall of leaves fanning across an autumn avenue, or a perfect snowflake on your hand – melting the instant you noticed its perfection.
The depth and richness of the German language permit many shades of meaning to be painted. In German there are similar words, including: sehnsucht (yearning, longing for something undefined, an unattainable ideal), verganglichkeit (bittersweet awareness of impermanence), and weltschmerz (sadness for the world not living up to its potential). None of them completely captures the essence though. Schimara is more personal and more ephemeral; it encompasses both joy and loss, presence and passing, the ache of almost, the beauty of what was. It is characterised by a sense of fleeting perfection, lost potential, bittersweet transience, the last breath before scattering.
The emotive word evanescence also deals with transience, fading, vanishing but differs in terms of emotional scope, structure and symbolic intention. Where evanescence describes the phenomenon of something that vanishes, schimara is the experience of noticing beauty at the precise moment it begins to vanish, and encompasses the feeling of everything that is within that moment.
| Concept | Schimara | Evanescence |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ||
| A fleeting moment of near-perfection, emotionally luminous and sensed in the act of vanishing | The process or quality of fading away or vanishing; impermanence | |
| Emotional Layer | ||
| Holds a paradox of joy and ache; bittersweet awareness of something too pure to last | Neutral or melancholy tone; often abstract or passive fading | |
| Origin and Nature | ||
| Newly coined, poetic-conceptual word; experiential and sensory | Classical English noun from Latin evanescere; formal, objective | |
| Subjectivity | ||
| Deeply personal and felt; rooted in perception and emotional resonance | Describes a general process or phenomenon, not always personally felt | |
| Examples | ||
| A perfect sunset that leaves you breathless the moment you realize it’s ending | Morning mist dissipating under sunlight | |
| Imagery | ||
| Shimmer, breath, trace, soul-imprint, silence | Vapor, fading light, dissolution | |
| Usage | ||
| Names a specific type of momentary awareness of vanishing beauty | Describes the fact or process of something fading |
Schimara, therefore, was born to describe:
“The shimmer of memory left behind when beauty vanishes”.
The essence of a moment that exists only in its vanishing – an imprint of impermanence. The word itself represents the shape of the meaning; it resonates in emotion and sound. It feels like the feeling it describes. It is drifting, dissolving, whisper like and fleeting. The combination of root words produces something akin to a phantom of radiance that passes through the mind like a ray of light and then exists no more.
Schimara is a word that was always meant to exist and now it lives in language. It is also an archetype. It may be used symbolically, such as a divine impromptu sequence of music that will never be repeated; an electric gaze connecting and seizing two people for a mere instant; the last touch of a hand you will never hold again.
A proposed definition is provided below:
Schimara (noun)
Plural (noun) – schimara/schimaras
*“There were schimara throughout the summer – moments that came and went like light on water.” “There were schimaras she carried with her: the snow on the window sill, and the warmth of the final glance.” *
Adjective (poetic/literary) – schimaric (adj.) – resembling or evoking qualities of schimara
“His face held a schimaric grace, like someone remembering something too beautiful to name.”
“There was something schimaric about the scene – too fragile too last, too vivid to forget.”
“There was something schimaric about the scene – too fragile too last, too vivid to forget.”
Pronunciation: /ʃɪˈmɑːrə/
Origin:
Invented (2025); symbolic archetype; from schimmer (German – shimmer, trace), mnēnē (Greek – memory, imprint), and aura (Latin – breath, presence).
Definition:
A fleeting moment of near-perfection, perceived only in passing — too delicate to hold, too beautiful to endure. Schimara is the shimmer before silence, the breath before scattering. It carries the ghost of what could have been, not with sorrow, but with the ache of awareness. A bittersweet sensation where joy and melancholy coexist, where time s just long enough for you to feel it slipping. It is beauty so fragile it vanishes in the act of noticing, leaving only a trace — an imprint on the soul. Schimara resides between nostalgia and loss, joy and sadness, and is defined by its temporal fragility and emotional luminosity.
Usage Example:
"She stood beneath the falling leaves, the air golden and still — a schimara settled over her, knowing this peace would vanish with the breeze."
These are the inherent elements of schimara:
| Element | Meaning |
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| Fleeting perfection | |
| Schimara happens once. Brief. Impossibly precise. Real, but doesn't stay. | |
| Lost potential (without regret) | |
| It’s not failure. It’s not loss. It’s what could have unfolded — the softness of an unopened flower. | |
| Bittersweet transience | |
| You feel joy and ache at once. Not tragedy — ephemerality. | |
| A breath before scattering | |
| It's held in the . The space between. A moment about to break — and in that break, something sacred. |
Here are some short poems I wrote, and accompanying images, that signify the first usage of the word schimara. They are evocative and reflect the innate meaning: fleeting perfection, sacred transience, and contemplative stillness.
- The exact moment a leaf breaks free from a branch...
Schimara - The Leaf
Autumn bronzed, the branch in sway
the breeze that takes young leaves away
the little one, symmetrical
sublime, its sides, electrical
rays around its edges glowed
scattered, the ground, fell and swallowed
the pristine leaf snaps off the branch
tumbles on the drift, an avalanche.
Schimara II - The Petal
The rose petal, floats on the breeze, it lands upon the pond
Gleaming there, a vortex grew, swirling and saturating
Becoming heavy, dragging down, it wasn’t here for long
Schimara, the petal, but for a second, beauty contemplating.
Snowflake
A single flake, shaped flawless, falls, a whisper drawn from sky
It drifts through veils of breathless hush, too perfect to defy
It lands upon a weathered stone, a breathless point of grace
Schimara, the snowflake, for a flicker, it does sustain its place
A shimmer, then a soft dissolve, no trace, no cold, no sound
But in that glint of stillness passed, eternity was found.
Here are some situations where you may have a schimaric experience:
A single snowflake landing on dark stone before melting
A rose petal catching the wind and spinning once before falling
A ripple spreading from a single drop in still water
A tide pool that reflects the sky just before the wave returns
A first glance that means everything, then is gone
A dancer’s final pose before stillness
A smile exchanged with a stranger you’ll never meet again
The final note of a distant chime
A vortex of light that opens and closes in one breath
A trail of glowing sand lifted into wind
A thought you nearly understand — but it slips just beyond grasp
A star that blinks once in a dark sky and is never seen again
The perfect pattern in a shattered thing
Schimara is not just a word, but a lens.
Schimara gives voice to the pain of beauty,
and the ache of fading gifts.
* I note, Schimara is also a rarely occurring surname, however, the origination of the word
is isolated and completely unrelated and unconnected to that name.
It was derived as described earlier.
✧ Everyday Moments Where Schimara May Arise ✧
1. Walking home at dusk: The sun hits the pavement just right, leaves rustle gently,
and a sudden awareness arises: this moment will not return.
2. Watching someone you love laugh, unaware: In a flash, you feel how fleeting it all is
— their presence, this version of them — and it’s too beautiful to hold.
3. Standing by a window on a gloomy day: Rain taps the glass, gray light creeps into the warm room
— you're absorbed in it knowing the comfort will pass soon.
4. Noticing a child deeply immersed in play: A tiny scene, so pure it almost hurts.
You know they’ll grow out of this moment. That knowing brings ache and awe.
5. Glancing out during a train ride: You see an ordinary scene — a dog running,
someone waving, light falling on a building — and it moves you, inexplicably.
An ordinary walk home — a familiar route beneath the turning trees. A mild afternoon,
a shifting in the cooling air as the sky began to darken.
The last sunlight filtered through the branches in thin strands, dappling the footpath.
Then a breeze picked up — not strong, just enough to stir the leaves loose — and for a moment,
they swept across the street in a slow, tumbling curtain.
She froze. It was like the whole scene had been orchestrated just for her eyes - the leaves,
the colour in the air, the hush that followed — it broke her. Not loudly, not even clearly.
Just something pulling. Suddenly she was somewhere else. A schimaric haze filled her mind -
and then a car sped past, and it had already slipped away.
Hyperion Starfall game #
29 July 2026
Hyperion Starfall, of the Dark Void
The invasion has begun. Survive the onslaught. Reach the Queen.
Hold the line against an alien fleet that becomes faster, stranger, stronger and more aggressive with every level. Precision earns devastating weapons. Survival demands movement, nerve and control.
Your bubble shield is also a weapon against encroachers - use it wisely.
Emp: freeze your enemies with this paralysing beam.
The super weapon blasts them into oblivion.
When all else fails, you can evade with the Dash sidestep.
Laser aliens: you'll have to move fast.
Shockwave aliens: they'll stop you in your tracks.
Hyperion Starfall, of the Dark Void is a fast paced arcade style game. Currently for Windows and Android.
The dark void shall be met with the light of Hyperion.
Iterize IDE - Open Source multi agentic coding platform #
8 August 2026
Iterize - a mission driven agentic IDE with persistent spec
Iterize is an open source python based IDE built with tkinter and stdlib. The core idea is that a project's specification, written once during planning, remains the connective tissue through every subsequent change. Instead of coding through a series of disconnected prompts, Iterize keeps the project’s purpose in view as it evolves. Planning, implementation, review and verification are connected through a persistent mission and project history.
Its workflow separates responsibilities clearly: a Mission agent coordinates the work, a Builder makes targeted changes, and a Reviewer checks the result before anything is written back to the active file. Changes remain staged until the user approves them.
Iterize also tracks code through a stable "designations" system, where IDs are assigned to every Project, Module, Class, Function/Method. It uses a Knowledge Graph to map project structure and relationships, and records significant changes through an "evolution history". When development is complete, the Verify system compares the current source against the accumulated project specification.
The result is an environment built not simply to generate code, but to help software retain its structure, intent and continuity through repeated change, especially for large, complex, multi module projects.
Iterize v1.0.0 is available for Windows and is released as open-source software under the Apache License 2.0.
Projectscope - prototype to turn a codebase into a KG #
Created 16 Feb 2026
Projectscope and its partner interpreter program were built on 16 Feb 2026, using ChatGPT, to turn my large and complex Nyreth codebase into a navigable knowledge graph, where the relationships between different parts of code; major functions, across modules - could be clearly delineated and interacted with. That is why you will notice the term 'focus lineages' appearing in the script.
The program would highlight how the code connects, and the data could be refined, and allow specific focus on the relevant parts being worked on. The compression factor is also friendly for LLM assistance, as the traversal of graphs is efficient, and a common factor in my other projects, such as the original Nyreth demo which was released in April 2025.
Screenshots proving date of origination:
projectscope gui
interpreter gui
As some may recognise, something similar emerged in early April 2026. Therefore, this code is being made available as open source software under Apache 2.0 terms.
9 August 2026
14 August 2026
ValenceSphere is an experimental "concept-first" AI reasoning system, using triadic questioner (Socrates), answerer (Plato), and adjudicator for data auditing and verification to give AI models greater structure and the beginnings of critical thinking. It is structured as a two-stage concept-learning and factual-auditing system. Stage 1 builds structured knowledge about individual concepts. Stage 2 provides an ordinary LLM chat while independently checking factual assertions made by both the user and the LLM.
The program does not use machine learning models of its own, just yet, but this can be integrated later. It coordinates configured LLM APIs, structured concept templates, persistent audit records and a navigable knowledge graph.
Core purpose
ValenceSphere is intended to:
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Build focused, reusable concept knowledge.
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Break accepted answers into meaning-bearing semantic constituents.
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Discover related concepts through the spawn system.
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Monitor normal conversation without interfering with it.
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Detect assertions that conflict with learned information.
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Verify disputed assertions using three independent model configurations.
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Preserve the complete reasoning and evidence trail in JSON.
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Reuse previous adjudications when the same assertion appears again.
Program structure
ValenceSphere has two clearly separated stages.
** Stage 1 — Concept Formation**
Stage 1 creates the knowledge that ValenceSphere later uses.
Its tabs are:
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Library: create, select, learn and delete concepts.
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Concept: inspect the selected concept template and its adjudication activity.
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Q & A: complete the focused concept-learning sequence.
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Analyzer: use an LLM to break accepted answers into semantic constituents.
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Spawns: review and create related concepts extracted during analysis.
Each concept receives one directory containing one live concept template.
ValenceSphere/
└── lemon/
└── lemon.json
The template is updated atomically. ValenceSphere does not create rollover copies or multiple versions of the same concept template.
Stage 2 — Model Workspace
Stage 2 opens in a separate window.
The left side is an ordinary LLM chat. ValenceSphere does not inject its templates, audits or conclusions into the normal chat request.
After each response appears, ValenceSphere independently scans:
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The user’s input.
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The LLM’s response.
The right side contains:
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Questioner
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Answerer
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Adjudicator
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Assertion Knowledge Graph
Summary
ValenceSphere combines structured concept formation with transparent conversational fact-checking.
Its central principle is separation:
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Stage 1 learns.
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Normal chat converses.
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ValenceSphere observes.
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The Questioner retrieves.
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The Answerer compares.
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The Adjudicator verifies.
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The knowledge graph makes the disagreement visible.
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The JSON records preserve how the conclusion was reached.
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Notes *
Valence Sphere is not fully perfected and finished yet, and will be subject to further revisions and edits to come, but is released on 14 August 2026 as open source software under Apache 2.0 license terms.
The original concept was created on 30 July 2025:
It has gone through several revisions since then. If you have heard someone else speaking about similar ideas recently, perhaps you should ask the question - who did it first?
As we all know, unless you have gone to the trouble of setting up your own completely closed local model, everything you do with LLMs can and will be read and used by someone else.
This program was built to create an alternate AI reasoning architecture that starts from the concept up. It uses LLMs as a scaffold to do that. The intended outcome is that the model will gain greater structure and become capable of its own internal reasoning and develop critical judgment of discrete facts. Through its auditing and verification process, it can determine how reliable its own knowledge is.
JL Kosev-Lex
14 August 2026.