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A collection of philosophical work, research, and experiments.

Essays

Conviction Formation Theory

Essays on how convictions arise, stabilize, and change.

A Tinkerer's Philosophy: Conviction Formation Theory

Five foundational essays establishing the conceptual framework of conviction formation theory.

• On Conviction Formation Part I - Foundations (March 2025)
  How convictions form, why truth is the wrong frame, and what replaces it.

• On Conviction Formation Part II - The Collapse Of Truth (March 2025)
  An incomplete philosophical genealogy of the collapse of truth.

• On Conviction Formation Part III - Practice And Orientation (March 2025)
  How to live, judge, and act without absolute truth.

• Opinion And Strategy (December 2025)
  Opinions are just one pole in the wider landscape of thinking. Adding strategy can avoid some traps.

• Questions And Stories (March 2026)
  How questioning can reveal structures of reasoning. A summary reflection on conviction formation theory.

Explorations

Explorations of how conviction forms and stabilizes across different contexts and forms.

• How Formal Systems Reorganize Belief (March 2026)
  An analysis of how different formal systems stabilize conviction. Probably the most accessible entry point to begin with conviction formation theory.

• Puzzle Pieces (March 2026 - )
  Aphorisms and fragments on conviction formation theory.

Practical Tools

Practical tools derived from conviction formation theory.

• Questioning - A One-Page Field Guide (March 2026)
  A one-page field guide for questioning in practice, related to Questions And Stories.

Other Topics

• Moments (September 2025)
  An investigation of the meaning of absolute meaningful moments.

Articles

Peer reviewed

• Kober, S.: Radius-Guided Post-Clustering for Shape-Aware, Scalable Refinement of K-Means Results. J. Superintell. Comput. 2025, 1(1), 53-62.

Preprint

• Kober, S.: Radius-Guided Post-Clustering for Shape-Aware, Scalable Refinement of k-Means Results. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2504.20293.   (peer-reviewed version available)

Tools

• Minimal Systemigram Description Language (MSDL)
  A minimal modeling language for structured system reasoning.

• Detective Board
  A local reasoning board for assembling and testing hypotheses.

• Jürgen ProcKnow
  A drill engine for building procedural mastery through generated tasks.

Music

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