Joseph Vanhorn

Qualia Algebra: A Mathematical Framework for Consciousness, from First Principles to Working Semantics

The measurement problem and the hard problem of consciousness share a structure: each derives the observer last and cannot account for what it finds there. Qualia Algebra (QA) inverts the order. From the one fact that survives total skepticism — I exist — it develops a grammar of...

Knows Its Slips, Reads the Page: A Pre-registered Study of Confidence and Abstention in Jev, a Calibrated Decision Model

Jev (TypeSafe AI, jev-1.13, released 15 September 2026) is a decision model. It does not write text. Given a situation and a list of options, it returns a choice and a probability for every option, and it is trained and sold for calibrated decisions. We treated it as comparative...