Semantic Cartography
Instruments for mapping how you navigate conceptual space—how you encode meaning, transmit it to others, and reconstruct it from sparse signals.
INSTRUMENTS: 2 LIVE: 2
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Know thyself. Empirically.
Phronos is an observatory for human cognition in the age of artificial intelligence. We develop methods to explore cognitive phenotypes, track human reasoning over time, and map the interface between human and machine intelligence.
01 Dispatches from the Observatory
02 The Library
LIB-001
Editing
Linguistic Markers of Cognition
What features of language reliably encode cognitive processes, and which are measurable at scale?
LIB-002
Editing
Digital Validity
Under what conditions can chat data serve as valid proxies for cognitive states?
LIB-008
Editing
Instrument Design
How can cognitive instruments be designed to be engaging, valid, and interpretable without causing harm?
03 Methods
MTH-002
Published
Semantic Association Metrics
A methodology for measuring semantic properties of word associations using embedding-based metrics.
MTH-001
Published
Observational Chat Analysis
A methodology for analyzing naturalistic human-AI conversations to measure engagement patterns, content dynamics, and user behavior.
01 Available Instruments
05 About
Founder
MD · PhD
"I've always felt a calling to serve—that's what drew me to medicine—which is why I feel it's not sufficient to merely ponder our epistemology when there is a very real and present threat actively reshaping it."
A think tank and a cognitive clinic in one.
Phronos builds instruments that observe cognition in action—measuring how you actually reason, not just what you report believing. The findings are yours to interpret.
The methodologies are open. The data becomes a commons. The dispatches translate findings into something legible.
The name comes from phronesis—practical wisdom, the kind that cannot be taught but must be cultivated through observation and reflection.
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