Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research

The department applies formal and computational methods — dynamical systems theory, statistical analysis, information theory, and mathematical modeling — to problems traditionally belonging to the humanities and social sciences. Its founding principle is substrate independence: the same structural tools that detect systematic distortion in medieval chronicles can reveal positional regularities in undeciphered scripts or expose behavioral lock-in in algorithmic platforms. The department does not replace domain expertise; it provides the formal scaffolding that turns qualitative humanistic hypotheses into quantitatively testable claims.

Research Programs

1. Computational Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems Statistical and positional analysis of undeciphered sign systems, with a focus on the Indus script. The program develops decision frameworks that determine what class of sign system a corpus belongs to before attempting semantic interpretation.

2. Structural Blindness in Historical Records Detection of systematic gaps and distortions in historical documentation through the Undirected Multidisciplinary Sweep method. The flagship case study — the absence of SN 1054 from all European records — demonstrates how institutional and cognitive filters produce coherent yet structurally incomplete archives.

3. Algorithmic Governance and Platform Power Mathematical frameworks for attention dynamics, cognitive suppression, and behavioral lock-in in digital platform ecosystems. The program models algorithmic governance as subjectless power operating through feedback loops rather than deliberate authority.

4. Political Economy of Automation Formal analysis of labor displacement, consumption dynamics, and resource allocation in economies transformed by artificial intelligence. The program critically reassesses classical political economy using dynamical systems tools.

5. Cooperative Dynamics Across Scales Formal models of mutual aid as a stability principle, linking evolutionary biology, neurochemistry, and distributed computational systems within a single dynamical framework.

6. Distributed Responsibility and Collective Protection: Theological Coherence, Behavioural Necessity, and the Architecture of Mutual Aid in Religious Communities.

7. Substrate Persistence, Civilizational Fragility, and the Non-Linear History of the Canadian Shield

8. The Future of Association Football (Soccer): Space, Time, Information, and Artificial Intelligence in the Theory of the Game.

9. A Theory of the Cinematic Masterpiece in the Generative Era: Temporal Sovereignty, the Carriers of Density, and Why Technical Progress Makes Art Dearer. IIIR Computational Humanities and Cultural Systems.

10. Art as structural necessity: A formal theory of aesthetic engagement in post-scarcity information environments.