What is APIF Research?

APIF Research is a community for those wanting to think about, discuss and share interesting ideas. Whether independent or institution-backed, whether specific causal mechanisms or general theories of everything, disparate research topics are given equal opportunity in the quest to craft an accurate model of reality. But reality is weird.

APIF Research primarily works within possibility spaces: theorising, hypothesising, speculating. Not afraid to ask big questions and admit when we get things wrong—scaling up and down diverse information sets to look for a potential synthesis will mean not everything ends in epiphany, but we recognise the potential in every space.

“APIF” stands for the ancient past and interconnected future: Thereby it follows the extensive range of topics in our very human nature. These are all explored longform on Substack, and shortform on Instagram, including:

On the "ancient" side:

  • megalithic architecture (focussing on style, assembly methods, alignments and purpose)

  • system-wide mythological and symbological comparative analysis

  • mapping prehistoric—contemporary information networks (focussing on masonic lineages)

  • thinking about foundational philosophies and traditions (focussing on finding a synthesis between East—West)

  • thinking about the impact interactions between different hominin groups has had on prehistory (focussing on H. denisovans and H. neanderthalensis)

  • mapping ancient cultural cycles (including political and sociological organisation and technological development)

On the "interconnected" side:

  • imagining the morphology of artificial "lifeforms"

  • mapping novel and emerging ecosystems (both biological and artificial)

  • thinking about the interrelation of planetary spaces and embedded systems (focussing on influence on developing biological systems)

  • thinking about the bioelectric mechanisms behind “scale-free cognition” (focussing on theory rather than experimentation)

  • mapping the global problem space (including risk in a “Game A” context, and potential transition into “Game B” setting)

  • thinking about the potential leveraging of social technology to balance power asymmetries in the geopolitical game space

  • optimising for sensemaking and a deeper understanding of the psychitectural space

APIF Research also acknowledges another element to the world around us: Depending on your personal context, some may call this space spiritual, sacred, profound. Others may use a more esoteric tone, like high strangeness, the phenomenon, super natural.

Not wanting to define, nor posit that all of these domains exist under one a single banner, APIF only wishes to explore with the openness and respect such domains deserve. These topics are exclusively discussed longform on Medium.

APIF Research has further released limited shortform explanatory videos to accompany various big research topics. However, we have a goal to produce more longform documentary-style videos in the future, exclusively on our YouTube channel. If you have experience in media editing related to the topics mentioned above, and want to collaborate with APIF Research in the future, please contact us directly with a sample of your work and let’s see what we can achieve!

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