FIRST PRINCIPLES
The first principles trace a full arc of intelligence. “Use is Meaning” anchors the work in being: what something is emerges through what it is used for. “Zeal + Capacity” turns to doing: the lived momentum of agency—how action gathers, resists, and takes shape. “Speech is Identity” illuminates becoming: how expression renders a self legible, misread, or transformed in relation to others. Across being → doing → becoming, these principles outline the cycle through which human and artificial intelligences continually bring one another into reality.
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