What is APIF Research?

APIF Research is a community for those wanting to think about, discuss and share cross-domain ideas. Whether independent or institution-backed, whether specific causal mechanisms or general theories of everything, disparate research topics are given equal opportunity in the quest to craft an accurate model of reality. But leave no doubt: reality is weird.

Because of this, APIF Research primarily works within possibility spaces: theorising, hypothesising, speculating. Not afraid to ask big questions and admit when we get things wrong—scaling up and down diverse information sets to look for a potential synthesis will mean not everything ends in epiphany, but we still strive to recognise the potential in every space.

“APIF” stands for the ancient past and interconnected future: Thereby it follows the extensive range of topics underlying our very human nature. Explored longform on Substack and Medium, and shortform on Instagram, these topics include:

On the "ancient" side:

  • megalithic architecture (focussing on style, assembly methods, alignments and purpose)

  • system-wide mythological and symbological comparative analysis

  • mapping prehistoric—contemporary information networks

  • thinking about foundational philosophies and traditions (focussing on a synthesis between East—West)

  • thinking about the impact of different hominin groups on our prehistory (focussing on H. denisovans and H. neanderthalensis)

  • mapping ancient cultural cycles (including political and sociological organisation, and technological emergence)

On the "interconnected" side:

  • imagining the morphology of artificial "lifeforms"

  • mapping novel and emerging ecosystems (both biological and artificial)

  • mapping the ontological landscape (focussing on a synthesis between idealist and realist perspectives)

  • thinking about the interrelation of planetary spaces and their embedded systems (focussing on the development of biological systems)

  • thinking about the philosophy behind bioelectric mechanisms of “scale-free cognition”

  • mapping the global problem space (including risk in a “Game A” context, and potential transition into “Game B” setting)

  • thinking about the potential leveraging of social technology to balance power asymmetries in the geopolitical game space

  • optimising for sensemaking and a deeper understanding of the psychitectural space

APIF Research also acknowledges another element to the world around us: Depending on your personal context, some may call this space spiritual, sacred, profound. Others may use a more esoteric tone, like high strangeness, the phenomenon, super natural.

Not wanting to define, nor posit that all of these domains exist within one single boundary, APIF only wishes to explore with the openness and respect such ageless domains deserve. These topics are almost exclusively discussed longform on Medium.

APIF Research has further released limited shortform explanatory videos to accompany various big research topics. However, we have a goal to produce more longform documentary-style videos in the future, exclusively on our YouTube channel. If you have experience in media editing related to the topics mentioned above, and want to collaborate with APIF Research in the future, please contact us directly with a sample of your work and let’s see what we can achieve!

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