This line of inquiry examines symbolic systems and cultural technologies as operational decision frameworks that structure meaning, perception, and action under constraint. Rather than treating divinatory, artistic, or technological systems as belief structures or expressive media, the research analyses them as structured mechanisms through which choices are organised, contexts stabilised, and possibilities navigated within specific historical and cultural conditions.
How do symbolic systems and cultural technologies function as decision frameworks alongside and beyond purely formal computational models?
This line of inquiry explores geometric and spatial representations of intention, choice, and meaning as alternatives to purely symbolic or numerical models of cognition. Rather than treating decisions as isolated selections between options, the research investigates how decision-making can be understood as movement within structured spaces shaped by constraint, proximity, and transformation.
How can intention and decision-making be represented geometrically as structured transformations rather than abstract, discrete choices?
This line of inquiry investigates emergence as a structural property of formal systems rather than an anomaly or residual category. The research focuses on how complex organisation arises from constrained rule-based systems, and how relational, geometric, and combinatorial structures contribute to the formation of higher-order patterns.
How does emergent structure arise within formal systems, and what roles do constraint, geometry, and relational organisation play in this process?
RDCJ Research operates as a laboratory rather than a publication pipeline.
The work begins with questions, but it does not assume that the quickest route to an answer is necessarily the most reliable one.
Inquiry is treated as a structural practice: building conceptual scaffolds, testing mappings across domains, and allowing formalisms to emerge when they can be justified rather than when they are demanded.
The aim is not to replace established scientific, mathematical, or cultural methods, but to examine the conditions under which different methods become valid, useful, or misleading, particularly in domains where meaning, interpretation, and human decision-making are part of the system being studied.