Neura Orion: A Socratic Framework for Decentralized Human–AI Scientific Inquiry

Neura Orion is an independent, non-peer-reviewed conceptual proposal for modular and decentralized Internet-oriented infrastructure connecting locally governed nodes, human communities, and bounded AI agents. It separates four proposed planes: network and identity (N), research and evidence (R), safety and governance (S), and optional resources (L). Nodes may support a domain-specialist agent and separate cybersecurity-defense functions, with local memory, authentication, audit trails and human oversight. The Socratic Technological Method emphasizes evidence, explicit uncertainty, criticism, scientific unknowns and documented decision rationales. Culturally diverse communities would maintain autonomy while exchanging information through interoperable interfaces. The proposal is not a deployed Internet architecture or a validated cybersecurity system; its pilot designs and 8PIP address-rotation hypothesis require independent testing. Generative AI assisted translation, editorial synthesis and illustrations.