Deep Analysis
Latest research and analysis in deep analysis.
Deep Analysis — Somatic Practice & AI Architecture: Theoretical Intersections (2026-07)
The May deep analysis established, through Merleau-Ponty, that movement is organised by motor intentionality — a forward-model-like reaching toward possibility that precedes explicit representation. The June deep analysis established, through Thomas Fuchs, that the resulting movement skill is sedime...
Deep Analysis — Somatic Practice & AI Architecture: Theoretical Intersections (2026-06)
The May 2026 deep analysis established that Merleau-Ponty's motor intentionality and current predictive AI architectures are structurally homologous — both are forward models — but differ in three fundamental respects: the content of their predictions (felt vs. visual), the history through which the...
Deep Analysis — Somatic Practice & AI Architecture: Theoretical Intersections (2026-05)
There is a moment in the phenomenology of movement that Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes with unusual precision: the moment when a practised action — reaching for a glass, landing from a jump, beginning a turn — is initiated by the body without passing through conscious deliberation. The hand moves t...
Deep Analysis — Sheets-Johnstone's Kinesthetic Consciousness and the Motion Manifold
Contemporary machine learning approaches to movement representation share a foundational assumption so pervasive it is rarely articulated: that movement can be adequately described as the coordinated displacement of body segments through Euclidean space over time. Motion capture systems, skeletal po...