Rosetta Vivant
Transdisciplinary research on distributed communication and plasticity
Project
Rosetta Vivant is an independent transdisciplinary research project investigating structural invariants of distributed communication and adaptation across living and artificial systems. The central hypothesis: the fundamental invariant is not a fixed grammar of signaling, but the plasticity of reconfiguration under changing constraints.
"It is wise to listen, not to me, but to the logos, and to acknowledge that all things are one." — Heraclitus, Fragment 50
Research domains
The project compares nine distributed systems along a gradient from biological to artificial:
- Mycorrhizal networks
- Bacterial biofilms (quorum sensing)
- Biological swarms (starlings, fish schools)
- Cetacean bioacoustics
- Avian communication
- Financial networks
- Online social networks
- Robotic swarms
- Large language models
Method
Each domain is analyzed along five transversal axes: network topology, threshold and cascade mechanisms, plasticity and reconfiguration, coevolution and signal parasitism, and conditions of plasticity loss. Cross-domain isomorphisms are classified as formal, functional, or metaphorical, and are retained as significant only when they exhibit predictive power across substrates.
The project relies on systematic literature reviews using academic APIs (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed) and produces a synthesis essay along with normalized domain reports.
Principal investigator
Pierre Binczak — Independent researcher, Le Creusot, France. Background in strategic planning (telecommunications), philosophy, and human-AI symbiotic creative work. The project is conducted in deliberate collaboration with large language models, with explicit transparency on the respective contributions of human judgment and machine processing.