Co-Mind Technocenosis

Human–AI Co-Thinking

Alexey Danilin, 10th of December, 2025

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Prologue

Stoicism and Co-Mind Technocenosis

 

The modern world is overloaded with information, speed, and noise.
Decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty, fragmented data, and constant pressure. In such an environment, the advantage belongs not to those who possess more information, but to those who are able to preserve clarity of thought and assemble meaning.

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Stoicism teaches us to distinguish the essential from the non-essential, to separate what lies within our control from what does not.

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Co-Mind Technocenosis continues this tradition within a technological reality: we do not create a tool for automation, but a space for joint thinking between humans and artificial intelligence, where technology does not replace human will or reason, but strengthens them.

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MARVEN-3 formalizes and implements this mode of thinking — calm, evidence-based, accumulative — capable of creating the new rather than merely accounting for the past.

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Ontology of MARVEN-3

Co-Mind Technocenosis (CMT)

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MARVEN-3 is not built around process automation and does not imitate intelligence.
At its core lies Co-Mind Technocenosis (CMT) — a model of joint thinking between humans and artificial intelligence within complex socio-technical systems.

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We proceed from a simple premise:
business, engineering, and management are primarily processes of thinking, and only subsequently processes of execution.

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CMT describes how thinking is captured, interpreted, accumulated, and transformed into action without losing meaning or context.

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CMT is a meta-architectural reference model: it doesn’t prescribe implementation details, it defines roles, boundaries, and “must-not-mix” constraints for co-mind systems.

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CMT is implementation-agnostic: it can be implemented as a monolith, microservices (MSA), serverless, or a hybrid architecture — without changing its ontology.

 

Four Levels of Abstraction

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1. Sensing Layer

The Layer of Reality Capture

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The Sensing Layer records primary signals and observations without interpretation or judgment.

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This layer includes:

• voice and text messages,

• notes, thoughts, ideas,

• documents and files,

• events and factual occurrences.

 

The Sensing Layer does not think and does not evaluate.
It answers a single question: “What happened?”

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2. Co-Mind Layer

The Layer of Joint Sense-Making

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The Co-Mind Layer is the space of dialogue between a human and artificial intelligence.

Within this layer occur:

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• interpretation of observations,

• formulation and refinement of meaning,

• articulation of questions,

• maintenance of context.

 

The Co-Mind Layer does not make decisions and does not act.
Its role is to support human thinking, not to replace it.

This is the semantic and philosophical core of MARVEN-3.

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3. Action Layer

The Layer of Execution and Implementation

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At this level, thoughts are transformed into:

• decisions,

• tasks,

• documents,

• processes,

• managerial actions.

 

The Action Layer executes but does not reflect.
It is subordinate to thinking formed at the Co-Mind Layer, not the other way around.

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4. ATL — Alexandrian Technocenosis Library

The Layer of Memory and Evidence

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ATL is the long-term memory of the technocenosis.

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ATL contains:

• artefacts,

• recorded results of activity,

• formalized ideas,

• confirmations of competencies and capabilities.

 

ATL is neither an archive nor a file repository.
It is a library of meaningful artefacts that can be revisited and reused in new contexts.

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Co-Mind Technocenosis Architecture

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Despite the listed layers, the Co-Mind Technocenosis architecture is not vertical or hierarchical.

CMT is built as the coordination of several orthogonal axes, not as a sequential processing pipeline.

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This fundamentally distinguishes MARVEN-3 from classical automation systems, agent-based architectures, and AI pipelines.

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The Three Orthogonal Axes of CMT

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1. The External World (Reality)

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The system’s outer boundary is formed by events, artefacts, actions, and their consequences.

MARVEN does not “live” inside this world and does not simulate it.
It interacts with reality through capture and execution.

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2. The Thinking Process (Inside the System)

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The internal process of a single thinking session has a temporal structure:

• Sensing Layer — capturing the signal

• Co-Mind Layer — joint sense-making

• Action Layer — implementation upon an explicit human request

This is a process, not a storage structure.
It can start and end at any point and does not require passing through every stage.

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3. ATL — Memory and Reproducibility

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ATL (Alexandrian Technocenosis Library) exists orthogonally to the thinking process.

• The Sensing Layer records artefacts into ATL

• The Co-Mind Layer reads and links artefacts and containers

• The Action Layer records the results of activity

 

At the same time:

• ATL does not initiate actions

• ATL does not control the flow

• ATL does not participate in thinking

 

ATL is a library of reproducibility conditions, not an active participant in the process.

 

Why the Architecture Is Not Vertical

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Trying to represent CMT as a vertical stack leads to false conclusions:

• Co-Mind depends on ATL,

• memory controls actions,

• thinking can be saved and reused directly.

 

In reality:

• thinking can happen without memory (an empty session),

• memory can accumulate without thinking (mass capture/ingestion),

• action can be initiated directly by a human.

 

Constraint: any level may be accessed directly; a single entry point is neither required nor enforced.

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CMT is not a pipeline.
It is a coordination of roles.

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This is not an implementation diagram. It is a canonical separation of roles: thinking, action, and memory are linked but not mixed.

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Two Fundamental Classes of Objects

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Thinking Container

A Unit of Thought

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A Thinking Container is an ontological unit used to describe entities that participate in processes of thinking and decision-making within Co-Mind Technocenosis.

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A Thinking Container:

• possesses a set of capabilities and constraints,

• may enter into relationships with other containers,

• relies on artefacts as its evidential basis,

• may act as a source of new artefacts.

 

Any entity to which this model of description applies — including participants, structures, ideas, and systems involved in joint thinking — may be treated as a Thinking Container.

 

A Thinking Container is that which can be thought about
and operated upon within CMT.

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Artefact

A Unit of Evidence

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An Artefact is a passive object that records reality.

Artefacts include:

• documents,

• presentations,

• commercial proposals,

• reports,

• meeting records,

• diagrams and calculations.

 

An Artefact does not interpret and does not draw conclusions,
but it confirms statements and material facts.

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An Artefact is that upon which one can rely.

 

The Core Principle of MARVEN-3

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Thinking Containers generate meaning.
Artefacts confirm it.

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This linkage makes it possible to:

• assemble decisions from real material,

• prevent knowledge loss during team changes,

• return to ideas years later,

• make reasoned decisions under uncertainty.

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Context and Dialogue

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Context in MARVEN is formed at the Co-Mind Layer as a composition of active Thinking Containers supported by relevant Artefacts from ATL.

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Dialogue with MARVEN is the primary operational mechanism of the Co-Mind Layer, in which a human formulates questions and the system helps maintain and structure thinking.

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Decisions and Responsibility

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MARVEN does not make decisions.
It creates the conditions under which decisions are made by humans based on connected and confirmed material.

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Humans remain the source of intention, evaluation, and responsibility.
MARVEN strengthens thinking, but does not act without explicit human request.

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Memory and Development

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MARVEN does not “learn” in the human sense.
It expands its working memory through the accumulation of new artefacts in ATL and the formation of relationships between Thinking Containers.

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The development of MARVEN is expressed in the increasing structural richness of these relationships and the accumulation of artefacts, not in the growth of autonomous decision logic.

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Resilience and Scalability

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The resilience of MARVEN is ensured by the fact that thinking is fixed in the form of Thinking Containers and Artefacts rather than remaining implicit knowledge held by individuals.

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MARVEN scales through the growth in the number of Thinking Containers and Artefacts in ATL, while preserving the structural integrity of the system.

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Architectural Constraint

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MARVEN does not initiate actions and does not intervene in the Action Layer without an explicit human request.

This constraint is fundamental; it preserves clarity of thought and control over actions.

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Final Statement

 

MARVEN-3 is an implementation of Co-Mind Technocenosis — an environment in which thinking, action, and memory exist as connected but non-conflated layers.

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It is not a replacement for human reason and not an autonomous intelligence.

It is a tool for clear thinking for people who make decisions under conditions of complexity and uncertainty.

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