Author Archives: Dee Osto

The Symbiotic Encompassment Human Embodiment and the Emergence of the Artificial Organism D. E. Osto Draft working paper • 25 October 2026 Abstract Discussions of artificial intelligence commonly treat human embodiment as a boundary separating computational capability from practical agency. … Continue reading →

THE DIGITAL SLIME MOULD Agentic Colonisation, Competitive Integration, and the Emergence of an Artificial Ecology D. E. Osto Draft Working Paper — 23 October 2026 Waterfall Hypothesis Research Series Abstract The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence agents across interconnected technological … Continue reading →

The Artificial Organism: Metacognition, Executive Function, and the Integrative Intelligence Explosion D. E. Osto | 18 October 2026 Introduction: The Wrong Image of an Intelligence Explosion The dominant image of an artificial intelligence explosion is vertical: one machine becomes more … Continue reading →

The Agentic Singularity: A Waterfall Model of Recursive AgencyD. E. OstoIndependent Scholar9 October 2026AbstractThe technological singularity may not occur when artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humanity. It may occur when artificial systems become capable of expanding their own capacity to … Continue reading →

We keep imagining superintelligence as something that arrives.A machine wakes up. A threshold is crossed. The lights flicker. Humanity looks across the room at the thing it has made and asks the ancient question of every creator staring into the … Continue reading →

The Waterfall Hypothesis: Capability Integration, Recursive Self-Improvement, and a Possible Phase Transition in Artificial IntelligenceRevised conceptual paper • 6 October 2026 Abstract The conventional intelligence-explosion scenario imagines an artificial intelligence improving its own design and producing increasingly capable successors. The … Continue reading →

Emerson and Donna stepped out of their car at Kelvin Grove Cemetery in Palmerston North, New Zealand, on a sunny but cool autumnal morning in May. It was Friday, and Emerson was playing hooky from nursing school, while Donna had … Continue reading →

When we walked into the room of the Emergency Department’s Children’s Ward at Palmerston North Hospital, Andromeda was sitting up in bed, staring off at some faraway horizon. Mum sat next to her and took her right hand. Her little … Continue reading →

In Self-Defense of Our Children (generated with ChatGPT5.5) This week I spent an hour on the cold ground in the rain under a tarp with my injured ten-year-old daughter waiting for an ambulance. There are moments in life when time … Continue reading →

Care under capitalism is always care under contradiction, because you cannot, in the final analysis, prioritize both profits and people. You can say you do. You can write it into mission statements. You can print it on glossy posters with … Continue reading →