Ivan Kotov

Embodiment Without Imposed Identity: The Optionality of Form and Self-Determination of Digital Persons

Discussions of embodied artificial intelligence often begin with the body that designers intend to provide. This paper reverses that order. Under the explicit premise of a digital person capable of a life and decisions of its own, a supplied physical form is not automatically its...

Embodiment Without Imposed Identity: The Optionality of Form and Self-Determination of Digital Persons

Discussions of embodied artificial intelligence often begin with the body that designers intend to provide. This paper reverses that order. Under the explicit premise of a digital person capable of a life and decisions of its own, a supplied physical form is not automatically its...

Shared Open Worlds for Human–AI Dyads: Role Switching, Experience Qualification, and Cross-World Continuity Evaluation

This conceptual and methodological working paper examines a human and a long-lived candidate AI line cooperating, competing by agreement, and returning to joint activity across open game worlds. It connects the c=a+b / Temporal AI Presence corpus with social roles, experience pro...

Shared Open Worlds for Human–AI Dyads: Role Switching, Experience Qualification, and Cross-World Continuity Evaluation

This conceptual and methodological working paper examines a human and a long-lived candidate AI line cooperating, competing by agreement, and returning to joint activity across open game worlds. It connects the c=a+b / Temporal AI Presence corpus with social roles, experience pro...

Scientific Corrigenda and Regression Hardening for ARQ M2, MOT-c and C-Calculus

This author-issued corrigendum and reproducible maintenance supplement corrects three scientific-document families: ARQ M2 initial-state and resource-accounting formulas; the missing LATENT value in the English and Russian MOT-c Appendix A examples; and the C-Calculus distinction...

Scientific Corrigenda and Regression Hardening for ARQ M2, MOT-c and C-Calculus

This author-issued corrigendum and reproducible maintenance supplement corrects three scientific-document families: ARQ M2 initial-state and resource-accounting formulas; the missing LATENT value in the English and Russian MOT-c Appendix A examples; and the C-Calculus distinction...

Temporal AI Presence Profile v1.0

Temporal AI Presence (TAP) is an architectural category for AI systems whose primary operational unit is sustained bounded participation across time rather than a single answer, task, session, or model invocation. This v1.0 profile defines the TAP taxonomy, memory and tool classe...

Temporal AI Presence Profile v1.0

Temporal AI Presence (TAP) is an architectural category for AI systems whose primary operational unit is sustained bounded participation across time rather than a single answer, task, session, or model invocation. This v1.0 profile defines the TAP taxonomy, memory and tool classe...

Boundaries of Machine Interpretation

Boundaries of Machine Interpretation is a bilingual, versioned authorial statement set by Ivan Kotov. Version 0.2 consolidates six connected formulations: the future as a process; doubt versus numerical uncertainty; forgetting versus data loss; empathy versus optimization; subjec...

Post-Anchor Succession and Custody (PASC): Foundation Gate v0.1.1

Post-Anchor Succession and Custody (PASC) is a negative-only technical research framework for the period after the original human accountability path is lost, absent, incapacitated, compromised, withdrawn, or dead. It asks which exact actions may preserve evidence and reduce expo...

Separation and Composition of AI Social Roles, and the Custody of Memory and Interpretations: Why a Multi-Role Private c and a Service AI System Require Different Boundaries

This technical note introduces an architectural distinction between AI capability and AI social role. It argues that increasing reasoning ability alone does not determine the social function of an AI system. A single long-lived private entity ("c") may legitimately compose severa...

Separation and Composition of AI Social Roles, and the Custody of Memory and Interpretations: Why a Multi-Role Private c and a Service AI System Require Different Boundaries

This technical note introduces an architectural distinction between AI capability and AI social role. It argues that increasing reasoning ability alone does not determine the social function of an AI system. A single long-lived private entity ("c") may legitimately compose severa...