Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (May 3, 2026). The Essential Definition of Intelligence: Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of the Survival Domain. SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6698958 This paper defines intelligence as survival-domain choice-space operation rather than a vertical scale of human-like cognition. It distinguishes intelligence from simple adaptation by requiring state-dependent operation among multiple survival-relevant paths. The framework compares species by their own ecological problem spaces and reconstructs human intelligence as a culturally externalized survival strategy shaped by hominin locomotor transition, persistent vulnerability, social learning, and cumulative culture.
Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (April 26, 2026). The Hierarchical Preservation Model of Decision-Making: Self-Relevance Encoding across Survival, Meaning, and Lineage–Collective Preservation. SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6667120 This paper offers a common interpretive grammar for decision-making by defining choice as a process of reorganization within a three-tiered preservation system mediated by self-relevance encoding. The three tiers comprise survival, meaning preservation, and lineage–collective preservation. This framework makes apparently irrational, self-sacrificial, or self-destructive decisions interpretable as outcomes of reweighting or collapse among preservation layers under specific constraints.
Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (February 24, 2026). The Recurrent Causal-Process Theory of Consciousness: Minimal Causal Agency under Biological Constraints. SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6680038 Consciousness is not a reportable mental state but a biologically implementable control regime: it begins when self-referential interoceptive integration closes an environment-mediated causal loop under homeostatic and metabolic constraints; this criterion dissolves the category errors in infant consciousness by separating environment-modulated regulation from environment-mediated agency.
Confidence-Aware MVL ISA Co-Design & AI
Preprints
Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (January 26, 2026). Hexa ISA: A Multi-Valued Instruction Set Architecture for Confidence-Aware and Approximate Computation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18372764 Binary ISAs encode operations under a precision-centric assumption that leaves confidence, approximation tolerance, and fallback behavior unrepresentable at the instruction level — Hexa ISA restores this missing semantic layer by decoupling logical intent from execution constraints through hexadecimal opcode-based contract execution, enabling explicit coordination across the ISA–firmware–hardware boundary without requiring new hardware paradigms.
Philosophy
Preprints
Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (April 29, 2026). Explanatory Breadth Without Criteria Is Not Explanation: Disciplined Generality in Scientific Theory Construction. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19822218 This paper proposes disciplined generality as a methodological standard for broad scientific theories. It argues that explanatory breadth becomes scientific only when constrained by level hierarchy, transfer rules, evidential criteria, failure conditions, and realizability constraints, distinguishing genuine explanation from unconstrained redescription across cases such as FEP, string theory, evolutionary adaptationism, plate tectonics, and the periodic system.
