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The expansion of intelligence beyond the biological body fundamentally transforms human agency, identity, cognition, and social organization, requiring new integrated philosophical and governance frameworks to navigate this civilizational threshold. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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This programme explores the effects of intelligence that surpasses biological limits on human agency and social structures.

March 21, 2026Open Access

EXPANDEDINTELLIGENCE- A Research Programme on Human-AIRelations, Civilisational Change, and the Architecture of Expanded Intelligence and Cognition

Key Points

This programme explores the effects of intelligence that surpasses biological limits on human agency and social structures.
Mapping a 20-year research programme in expanded intelligence.
Analyzing 124 research contributions across multiple formats including papers and concept notes.
Integrating frameworks and concepts such as the Seven Lenses analytical model and the Dyad theory.
Examining five domains: philosophy of technology, human-AI relations, cognitive diversity, and governance.
Identified 124 distinct contributions that form a unified inquiry into expanded intelligence.
Developed original frameworks like the Round Table Protocol and The Pond theory.
Highlighted the implications of expanded intelligence on civilisational change and human identity.

Abstract

This document maps a research programme twenty years in the making. It traces the intellectual architecture of Expanded Intelligence — a body of work developed across two published books, a graduation thesis, conference presentations, a live governance methodology, and an operational AI platform — and presents its 124 distinct research contributions as a unified programme of inquiry. The programme addresses a single civilisational question from multiple directions: what becomes of human agency, identity, cognition, and social organisation when intelligence expands beyond the biological body? The answer unfolds across five interconnected domains — philosophy of technology, futures studies, human-AI relations, cognitive diversity and neurodivergence, and institutional governance methodology — producing original frameworks, named concepts, and operational proofs of concept that do not yet exist in the literature in this integrated form. The 124 entries documented here span 72 full papers, 45 concept notes, 1 creative/research object, and 2 historical records. They include frameworks such as the Seven Lenses analytical model, the Homo Expansus anthropological category, the Dyad as a relational theory of human-AI cognition, the Expanded Intelligence / ESI evolutionary lineage, the Round Table Protocol as a governance methodology, the 11-Layer AI Orchestration Framework, and The Pond as a theory of collective ethical intelligence. Together they constitute a research programme in the field of Human-Technology-World relations, with particular emphasis on the AI moment as a civilisational threshold. This overview is submitted as a programme preprint. Individual papers will follow as standalone submissions to their designated venues. All entries are timestamped here as prior art and intellectual record. Keywords: Expanded Intelligence · Homo Expansus · The Dyad · Human-AI relations · Philosophy of technology · Futures studies · Neurodivergence · ESI · The Pond · Round Table Protocol · AI orchestration · Civilisational change · Post-job economy · Cognitive sovereignty

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