Research Programme
A proposed field-level research programme for the study of semantic organisation in artificial systems.
Developed by Tristan Radford and published through Riff Systems Ltd, Non-Biological Semantics separates claims about artificial representations into distinct evidential levels rather than treating measurable structure, causal relevance and human interpretation as interchangeable. The programme begins with a foundational methodological paper and now includes its first controlled empirical sequence.
The publications below are presented as separate, permanent papers within the same research programme. Later papers may extend, test or revise the programme without altering the published record of earlier work.
Paper 01 · Foundational paper
A proposed field-level research programme for the study of semantic organisation in artificial systems.
v1.0 · Current revision 7 September 2026 · Tristan Radford — Cross-Domain Cognitive Systems Architect
NEW · Paper 02 · Empirical study · NBS-001 / NBS-002
A controlled valence study in Pythia-70M separating structural evidence, causal intervention and prospective human interpretation.
v1.0 · 26 September 2026 · Tristan Radford — Cross-Domain Cognitive Systems Architect
The empirical paper preserves its confirmatory endpoint as STRUCTURAL_PASS → CAUSAL_PASS → INTERPRETATION_FAIL. The result does not overwrite the foundational paper; it is a separate empirical application within the NBS programme.