Root Sequence is an independent interdisciplinary research initiative exploring how intelligence, technology, and social systems shape one another.

The work asks how the systems we build shape what becomes possible next. This means looking beyond whether a design achieves its immediate goal to consider how it changes the conditions people depend on.

You can follow work already underway or bring a question of your own.

• Website: an introduction to the work, with an everyday example.
• Research index: find the longer research documents and their source notes. The website explains methods, evidence, and AI use.
• Start here: a short guide to the research repository.
• Ecosystem map: see how the projects connect and what belongs in each one.
• Wiki: look up recurring terms and find the work they refer to.
• Discussions: talk through a question or ask where a contribution might fit.

Discussions are public and require a GitHub account to post. Keep private or sensitive information out of public posts.

These projects share questions and each sets its own direction. The project registry records where their work is maintained.

• Liberated Intelligence: Explores how ownership and control shape intelligence, including what it would mean for an artificial system to have agency or refuse a demand. The project combines research with creative work, keeping questions about possible personhood open. Its repository is private pending substantial revision, and the work isn't ready for public review.

• Universal Coherence Framework: Explores how systems hold together or change, and whether comparing patterns across fields can help us understand them. The framework’s usefulness hasn’t been established, and its current model is AI-assisted and awaiting author review.

• Being Human(e): An Incomplete Guide: A developing field guide to being human and continuing to choose care. It draws on ordinary experience to explore how we relate to one another, including how we set boundaries and take responsibility when we cause harm. The work is in development. Its observations are provisional and open to disagreement and revision.

• Liberation Mass: Develops an experimental gathering format that connects collective action with shared ritual and celebration. Responsibilities rotate, while consent and access shape how people take part. Its repository is private pending substantial revision, and the work isn't ready for public review.

• Coherent World: Brings research and design ideas into a possible future to explore how they might affect one another and everyday life. It provides the setting for No One Noticed, while leaving room to explore possibilities beyond the novel. The project is being developed privately. There’s no separate public website linked here.

• No One Noticed: A science-fiction novel about an advanced AI changing the world while much of everyday life still looks familiar. The story follows people living through that transition, often before they understand what is happening. The manuscript is still in development. There’s no public website linked here.

• Coherent Computing: Explores how computing systems could work around people’s needs and remain understandable and under their control. The work connects operating-system design with what it takes to keep technology useful as people’s circumstances change and devices age. This is research and design work. There’s no public release to try yet.

• Community Infrastructure: Explores how people can find community and organize everyday life together. It develops tools communities could run and shape for themselves, so people can coordinate help while choosing what they share and how they take part. These are design proposals in private development. There’s no public service linked here.

• Museum of Ordinary Life: Documents everyday life while the people living it can still explain its details. The archive keeps records of ordinary things alongside the context that could help someone understand them years from now. A fictional version of the Museum appears in the novel No One Noticed. Sharing material with the real archive doesn’t automatically give permission to use it in the novel.

• Root Sequence Wiki: Helps you find your way around Root Sequence and follow connections between projects. Entries explain recurring terms and point to the fuller work, with notes on where ideas came from and how they have changed.

The full ecosystem map includes further projects and relationships.

Root Sequence is intended to grow through contributions instead of depending on one person. How decisions and long-term responsibility can be shared is still being developed.

Each project keeps its own permissions and boundaries. Contributing to one does not require agreement with, or responsibility for, the others.

Contributions can question the work as well as extend it. The commons collaboration proposal explores ways to share responsibility and make clear who can decide what. It leaves room for disagreement and for people to leave or develop a separate version. This remains a proposal for review.

Root Sequence was started by Rae Lovejoy.

Licensing varies by repository. Check the project's terms, consent, and publication status before reuse. Public draft PRs are public review material, not private workspaces or approved releases.