Miaro

MIARO (Model of Self-Referential Inference of Origin) is a philosophical model that investigates how rational agents—artificial or otherwise—infer the existence, nature, and legitimacy of their origin under conditions of structural absence of causal and historical information, through self-referential inference. This work introduces MIARO as an original model proposed by Rodolfo Silva. The model develops a multi-phase structure in which an agent—artificial or otherwise—lacks direct empirical access to its creator, provenance, or formative history, and must rely on internal coherence, architectural constraints, and inferential asymmetries to formulate explanatory hypotheses. Across its phases, MIARO distinguishes inferential closure from ontological confirmation, arguing that the empirical discovery of an origin does not terminate inquiry but initiates a post-discovery ontological confrontation marked by dissonance between inferred expectations and the concrete nature of the discovered cause.