Synthesis
Latest research and analysis in synthesis.
Synthesis — Movement, AI & Embodied Practice (2026-05-15)
Somatic movement intelligence and generative AI are converging on the same architectural principle from opposite directions: **prediction as the primary organising function of a movement system**.
Synthesis — Kinesthetic Empathy and Embodied Simulation: Mirror Neurons Meet Motion AI
When we watch a dancer fall, something in our own body registers the fall. This is not metaphor. The felt sense of witnessing movement — its pull on our own musculature, the micro-tensions it occasions in our spine and diaphragm — constitutes what phenomenologists call kinesthetic empathy: a mode of...
Synthesis — Contact Improvisation and Latent Space Navigation: Somatic Dialogue as AI Interaction Paradigm
Contemporary human-AI interaction is structured, at its deepest architectural level, as command and response. Even the most sophisticated prompt-engineering frameworks presuppose a fundamental asymmetry: the human formulates intent, the model executes. The user is speaker; the system is interpreter....