The MAMI Theory
A theoretical and conceptual framework for examining invisibility across disability, education, institutional systems, and AI ethics.
RESEARCH PROGRAM · MAMI THEORY
Structural invisibility, epistemic architecture, and responsibility.
MAMI Theory — the Meta-Architecture of Mind and Invisibility — asks how systems determine what can be recognized, recorded, acted upon, or left outside visibility.
Current conceptual work
Epistemic Collapse Matrix
A proposed analytic heuristic for organizing questions about how systems respond to information they cannot readily process.
Invisible Retention Rate
An unvalidated candidate formalization for examining whether information elements are retained across representation processes.
Architectural Ethics
A normative conceptual proposal for examining responsibility at the level of epistemic and institutional design.
Research status
The current publications develop conceptual frameworks and proposed analytical tools. Empirical evaluation and validation remain future stages of the research program; illustrative examples are used to clarify the method.
HOW TO READ THE WORK
Claims are kept separate from evidence.
Each publication should be assessed on its own terms: its question, relation to existing literature, materials and method, empirical status, and limitations.
An individual study is not treated as proof of MAMI Theory. Findings may refine, narrow, or challenge the perspective as the research develops.
Fields of inquiry
Institutional recognition
Classification, documentation, timing, ambiguity, and the conditions under which experience becomes institutionally legible.
AI-assisted decisions
Evidence, human review, exceptions, escalation, overrides, and the allocation of decision responsibility.