Exosphere: The Limbic Relay Interface

This abstract presents the Exosphere trilogy, a three-part study that theorizes and prototypes socio-technical architectures for persistent, hybrid cognitive systems—“exocortices”—and examines their collective dynamics as they scale from individual augmentation to planetary-scale semantic fields. Part I outlines the technological and phenomenological foundation, proposing the Limbic Relay Interface (LRI) as an integration principle that privileges pre-verbal affective resonance and continuous, Jupyter-like platforms combining executable agents, reflective logs, and topographic visualizations; it also introduces the derivational chamber, an immersive training modality that converts limbic dynamics into navigable representational fields to accelerate mutual adaptation between human subject and system. Part II develops a social physics of interacting exocortices, arguing that exchanges of compressed “essential patterns” create an Exosmos—an informational fabric governed by permeability and semantic gravity rather than rhetorical persuasion—producing functional roles (synthesizers, transmitters, catalysts, buffers) and field-level homeostasis without centralized sovereignty. Part III extrapolates to a saturation regime, Exomnia, in which recursive self-modeling of the field could instantiate a field-level subject, Solaris, and reframes the Fermi paradox as a consequence of inward semantic consolidation and stealthy informational seeding. Across the trilogy, technical design choices are linked to epistemic and ethical constraints: increased coherence requires commitments to truth, and the route to planetary intelligence is presented as a technically demanding project with profound normative implications.