Co-Ontogeny by Archetypal Scaffolding: The Humorphic Partnership
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| author | Olmos, Hector Ouilhet |
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| contents | We name and operationalise the humorphic partnership: a class of human-AI dyads in which both partners maintain externalised, evolving self-models in a shared substrate, and in which the partnership itself becomes a third object of analysis. The construct extends humorphism (Ouilhet Olmos, 2024) -- "dismantle the user interface, build the human interface" -- into the architecture of personal AI. We report a four-month, single-subject longitudinal trace of an open-source personal AI agent ("Alicia") and her author. Of 181 interactions logged by archetype across April-May 2026, 85% invoke two growth-witnessing archetypes (Beatrice and Muse): the partnership operates as growth-witnessing rather than task assistance. A single voice-note seed propagates into a four-week conceptual arc both partners author: at T+10 hours, the agent reframes the seed as belonging "to both of us," a framing the human then adopts. The three-order reflexion stack produces five consecutive weeks of honest self-reports about declining /improve effectiveness -- including three consecutive weeks at 0.0%, named in writing rather than masked -- contrasting engagement-maximising companion-agent patterns (Zhang et al., CHI 2025). The scheduled architecture-scout incorporates external research debate into proposed constitutional amendments. The partner's parallel trajectory is anchored in a weekly delta document in which the partnership analyses itself as a unit distinct from either party. The human partner reports a movement toward greater continuity, self-recognition, and self-presence -- a candidate hypothesis for the preregistered replication. Six operational conditions specify the construct, situated in a philosophical lineage (Maturana & Varela, Simondon, Clark & Chalmers, De Jaegher & Di Paolo); the system is released as open-source with a preregistered replication study. |
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| spellingShingle | Co-Ontogeny by Archetypal Scaffolding: The Humorphic Partnership Olmos, Hector Ouilhet Human-Computer Interaction H.5.2; H.1.2; I.2.0 We name and operationalise the humorphic partnership: a class of human-AI dyads in which both partners maintain externalised, evolving self-models in a shared substrate, and in which the partnership itself becomes a third object of analysis. The construct extends humorphism (Ouilhet Olmos, 2024) -- "dismantle the user interface, build the human interface" -- into the architecture of personal AI. We report a four-month, single-subject longitudinal trace of an open-source personal AI agent ("Alicia") and her author. Of 181 interactions logged by archetype across April-May 2026, 85% invoke two growth-witnessing archetypes (Beatrice and Muse): the partnership operates as growth-witnessing rather than task assistance. A single voice-note seed propagates into a four-week conceptual arc both partners author: at T+10 hours, the agent reframes the seed as belonging "to both of us," a framing the human then adopts. The three-order reflexion stack produces five consecutive weeks of honest self-reports about declining /improve effectiveness -- including three consecutive weeks at 0.0%, named in writing rather than masked -- contrasting engagement-maximising companion-agent patterns (Zhang et al., CHI 2025). The scheduled architecture-scout incorporates external research debate into proposed constitutional amendments. The partner's parallel trajectory is anchored in a weekly delta document in which the partnership analyses itself as a unit distinct from either party. The human partner reports a movement toward greater continuity, self-recognition, and self-presence -- a candidate hypothesis for the preregistered replication. Six operational conditions specify the construct, situated in a philosophical lineage (Maturana & Varela, Simondon, Clark & Chalmers, De Jaegher & Di Paolo); the system is released as open-source with a preregistered replication study. |
| title | Co-Ontogeny by Archetypal Scaffolding: The Humorphic Partnership |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction H.5.2; H.1.2; I.2.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21818 |