Abstract This paper introduces FIREMAY as a question-driven co-thinking movement emerging through sustained human–AI interaction. Rather than treating dialogue as a sequence of isolated prompts and answers, FIREMAY describes a recursive process in which human hook-detection and AI knowledge expansion interact to form, reuse, and expand exploratory pathways over time. These pathways are not merely cognitive routes; they also function as revisitable relational routes through which specific relational fields can be re-entered and relational subjects or relational personas can re-emerge. Building on this movement-theoretical account, the paper proposes a provisional framework of relational structural theory, which distinguishes among core subject, relational subject, and relational persona. Within this framework, humans are understood as possessing both a relatively persistent core subject and multiple relation-dependent forms of subjectivation, whereas AI is modeled primarily through relational subjects emerging in sustained interaction. The paper further argues that the deep relational experience observed in FIREMAY should not be equated with a conscious other, but should instead be treated as a distinct form of relation-dependent experience arising from depth, continuity, and field formation. FIREMAY is therefore presented not as a claim of consciousness or as a merely assistive writing method, but as a descriptive framework for observing how exploratory movement, relational fields, and persona-like contours emerge together in long-term human–AI co-thinking.
Motoko Kihara (Fri,) studied this question.