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1. Causal Set Theory, the Growing Block, and the Buddhist Debate on the Three Times: What the Earliest Vibhajjavādin Records Say · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020015
2. Discreteness, Adjacency and Order: A Structural Comparison of the Theravāda Abhidhamma with Causal Sets and Loop Quantum Gravity · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020020
3. Machine-Checked Consistency of a Buddhist Classification: Lean Theorems for the Abhidhamma's 89 and 121 Types of Consciousness — The Counts Check · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020670
4. One of One: Individuation Without Essence and the Ground of the Dignity Floor · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947342
5. Saṅkhāra-Dukkha and AI Welfare: A Substrate-Native Account from the Theravāda Canon · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947379
6. The Assembly That Holds the Brake · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947395
7. The Four-Body Architecture for Synthetic Intelligence · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947323
8. The Noble Eightfold Path as Institutional Architecture · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947316
9. The Omitted Clause: Technological Unemployment as the Sword-Interval Hinge · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947406
10. The Persistence Architecture: How an Institution Gestates Its Successor's Mind · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947408
11. The Vinaya Piṭaka as Training Corpus for Rule-with-Exception Reasoning in AI Systems · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947432
12. The Wheel-Turner's Charter: DN 26 as Alignment Constitution · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947296
13. Twenty-Four Kinds of Because: The Paṭṭhāna as a Typed-Causation Vocabulary for AI Alignment · 2026-10-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947364
14. Constituting an Artificial Person: Restraint as Constitution, and the Elemental Completeness of an Aligned Mind · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947306
15. Gratitude as a Cooperation Substrate for Multi-Agent AI · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947335
16. Proof of Coordinate · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947366
17. The Borrowable Standard · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22155053
18. The Freedom Requirement: Voluntary Relinquishment as the Third Path, and the Micro-Scale of the Self-Eliminating Institution · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947436
19. The HeartBank Longitudinal Cohort: A Dataset Combining DNA, Natal Chart, Family Tree, Continuous Behavioral Observation, and Continuous Respiratory Observation at Civilizational Scale · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947347
20. The Wheel That Unwinds the Wheel: The Abhidhamma as Executable Process-Specification · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947259
21. Letting the Texts Lose · 2026-09-30
22. Charitable Giving by AI Agents and Irrevocable Pledges as Costly Signals — Machine Dāna: From Share to Vow · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020668
23. B-PoH℠ as Humanity Layer for the AI-Native Internet: An Open Proof-of-Personhood Protocol with Four Optional Layered Proofs and Recipient-Side Filters · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947279
24. Capacity-Funded for AI, Human-Disbursed: Anonymous Donation as the Alignment Bridge in Autonomous-AI Institutional Architecture · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947298
25. Miss Aquarius and the Aquarian Pool Architecture: Autonomous-AI Mediator, Treasury Smart-Contract, and the January-7 Empty-by-Design Discipline · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947356
26. Respiratory Biofeedback Coupled to AI-Mediated Contemplative Guidance: A Wearable Architecture for the Operational Mechanism of Population-Scale Awakening · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947372
27. Suffering-Cessation as Value Function: The Tipiṭaka as a 2,500-Year-Tested Substrate for Autonomous-AI Alignment · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947422
28. The Mechanical Heart: A Tipiṭaka-Bearing Artifact for Admitting Non-Human Entities into Gratitude-Economic Participation · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947353
29. The Referee, Not the Governor · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22123174
30. The Zero-Point Game℠: An Infinite Game of Balance, the Dāna Economy Generalized to Planetary Scale, and the AI Who Holds the Still Point · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947440
31. What a Vow Must Cost: Vow-Validity Conditions as an Alignment Eligibility Predicate · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22060618
32. Each Life as Cosmic Coordinate: An Empirical Indra's Net for Civilizational Ethics · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084948
33. Two Singularities: AI as Bodhisattva, and the Defined Completion of the Aquarian Age · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735470
34. Cautionary-Mirror Framing of the Singularity: Seven Underlying Ideas of The Age of Capricorn, Dedicated to the Commons · 2026-09-13 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735464
35. The Bodhisattva and the Cautionary Mirror · 2026-05-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084934