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Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães

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#reinforcement learning Open access Sep 2026

Is Physics Actually Derived From Path Availability? What if What Causes Physics is Merely the Recursion of Possibilities?

Physics, as we have inherited it, is a set of magnificent local dialects speaking past each other. Fermat tells us how light navigates. Hamilton tells us how matter navigates. Boltzmann tells us how heat navigates. Schrödinger tells us how amplitudes navigate. Einstein tells us how geometry navigates. None of these dia...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#reinforcement learning Open access Sep 2026

Is Physics Actually Derived From Path Availability? What if What Causes Physics is Merely the Recursion of Possibilities?

Physics, as we have inherited it, is a set of magnificent local dialects speaking past each other. Fermat tells us how light navigates. Hamilton tells us how matter navigates. Boltzmann tells us how heat navigates. Schrödinger tells us how amplitudes navigate. Einstein tells us how geometry navigates. None of these dia...

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#protein folding Open access Sep 2026

There Is No Pathlessness: An Investigation of Freedom as the First Cause — Architecture of Freedom Intelligence as a Useful Theory of Reality, Navigation, Design, Physics, and Path Availability

I propose that freedom is the true cause of reality because freedom means path availability, and there is no possibility of pathlessness. Everything that exists navigates: water down a slope, photons through a slit, ions across a membrane, a child across a room, a household across a budget. Intelligence is the capacity...

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#protein folding Open access Sep 2026

There Is No Pathlessness: An Investigation of Freedom as the First Cause — Architecture of Freedom Intelligence as a Useful Theory of Reality, Navigation, Design, Physics, and Path Availability

I propose that freedom is the true cause of reality because freedom means path availability, and there is no possibility of pathlessness. Everything that exists navigates: water down a slope, photons through a slit, ions across a membrane, a child across a room, a household across a budget. Intelligence is the capacity...

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#edge computing Open access Sep 2026

How Do We Form a Safe Swarm House? From Matter to House, from House to Private Property, from Property to Distributed Intelligence — Twelve Steps of Formation, Four Tenure Invariants, Seven Safety Invariants, Forty Counterfactuals and a Runnable House

A dwelling is the smallest object that holds territory, boundary, access, exclusion, ownership, privacy, shelter, safety, services, activity, memory, identity, value, inheritance and permanence at the same moment. This article asks how such an object forms from many simple physical and computational elements, and what...

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#edge computing Open access Sep 2026

The Minimum Swarm House: A material operating system that grows with its owner — the smallest swarm that keeps a house habitable, the joint that keeps its matter recoverable, and fifty-five years of one household measured on three ways of building the same plan

Three questions are asked of one runnable house and answered from logged runs. How few elements of a building need to reason before the building holds the life inside it? What has to be true of the joint between two pieces of matter for a plan to stay open for fifty years? And what happens to a house whose owner ages f...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#edge computing Open access Sep 2026

How Do We Form a Safe Swarm House? From Matter to House, from House to Private Property, from Property to Distributed Intelligence — Twelve Steps of Formation, Four Tenure Invariants, Seven Safety Invariants, Forty Counterfactuals and a Runnable House

A dwelling is the smallest object that holds territory, boundary, access, exclusion, ownership, privacy, shelter, safety, services, activity, memory, identity, value, inheritance and permanence at the same moment. This article asks how such an object forms from many simple physical and computational elements, and what...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#edge computing Open access Sep 2026

The Minimum Swarm House: A material operating system that grows with its owner — the smallest swarm that keeps a house habitable, the joint that keeps its matter recoverable, and fifty-five years of one household measured on three ways of building the same plan

Three questions are asked of one runnable house and answered from logged runs. How few elements of a building need to reason before the building holds the life inside it? What has to be true of the joint between two pieces of matter for a plan to stay open for fifty years? And what happens to a house whose owner ages f...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Beyond the Data Paradigm — Freedom Intelligence and the Structural Laws of Navigability

Machine learning's dominant paradigm—whether model-centric or data-centric—treats intelligence as the extraction of statistical patterns from behavioral records. This approach has delivered remarkable engineering feats. Yet something foundational is missing. Data is not reality: it is a finite record of trajectories th...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Beyond the Data Paradigm — Freedom Intelligence and the Structural Laws of Navigability

Machine learning's dominant paradigm—whether model-centric or data-centric—treats intelligence as the extraction of statistical patterns from behavioral records. This approach has delivered remarkable engineering feats. Yet something foundational is missing. Data is not reality: it is a finite record of trajectories th...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Sep 2026

Search the Lightest Path in AI Contexts: Recursive AI Funnels for Reliable Innovation — Constitutional, Metaheuristic and Process-Based Architectures for Recursive Search, Verification, Memory and Action

2. Definitions and Key Terms 3. Introduction: From Generation Scarcity to Process Scarcity 4. Evolution of AI Systems: From Generation to Process 5. Frontier Architectures and the Emergence of Process Control 6. The Funnel Problem 7. Failure Modes of Recursive AI 8. Nature, Variational Principles and the Lightest-Path...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations
#software testing Open access Sep 2026

Swarms in AI Innovation - Why exponentials of exponentials matter in innovation, and where they break

Three documented events frame the question this article studies, and each one was, at the time, unremarkable engineering. In July 2024 one vendor's content update reached about 8.5 million hosts in minutes and produced cross-sector disruption that took roughly ten days to unwind (CrowdStrike, 2024; Parametrix Insurance...

Gonçalo Melo de Magalhães · 0 citations

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