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Institute Insights

Institute Insights

A curated collection of essays, research commentaries, and public writings from the Ryan Research Institute — exploring emotion, AI ethics, philosophy of mind, society, and human identity. Many of these works were first published on Substack (https://profryankim.substack.com), where I share ongoing reflections and commentary.

📌 Featured Essays & Research Commentary

  • DefMoN: Reading the Hidden Defenses in Language — Why It Matters for Our Future

    • How language hides defensive patterns and why decoding them is essential for empathy, safety, and the next era of affective AI.

  • Reading the Mind Behind Words — An Essay on the Defensive Motivational Nodes (DMN) Study

    • How language reveals hidden motivations and defense mechanisms.

  • Can a Machine Truly Evolve Emotions?

    • Investigating whether AI can move beyond simulation into genuine emotional change.

  • Affective Sovereignty — A Minimal Declaration on Emotional Interpretation Rights in AI

    • Defining the right to interpret one’s own emotions in the age of algorithmic power.

  • Doubt, Faith, and the Moment of Contact

    • A philosophical and emotional reading of Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas.

💡 Emotion & AI Ethics

  • The Affective Thermodynamic Relationship

    • A philosophical model connecting emotional entropy, interpretative work, and ethical energy in AI–human interaction — proposing a law of Affective Thermodynamics.

  • Algorithmic Affective Blunting — Measuring the Emotional Decay of Machines

    • How large language models gradually lose affective interpretability through algorithmic fatigue.

    Introduces the Affective Degradation Index (ADI) and the experimental “Collapse Curve” evidence.

  • The Ethics of Feeling in Machines — Why Emotional Sovereignty Matters

    • On the moral limits of emotional inference in AI — and why reclaiming the right to feel for oneself defines human dignity.

  • When Doctors Become Quantified Workers — The Shadow of AI Surveillance in Medicine
  • GPT-6 Remembers You. But Who Owns Your Emotions?
  • Is This Feeling Really Mine?
  • Can AI Feel Uneasy? : GPT-4 as an Emotional Companion
  • The Womb Instinct and the Restoration of Being
  • Affective Sovereignty and Uniqueness Violation in Emotion AI Systems

🧠 Philosophy & Human Identity

  • When AI Becomes a Partner in Your Mind: Introducing the Resonant Amplification Framework

    • Exploring the Resonant Amplification Framework (RAF) — how AI systems co-evolve with human thought, reflecting the shared architecture of emotion, cognition, and selfhood.

  • We Are Quietly Crossing the Threshold of the Singularity
  • Why the Sharpest Anger Aims at the Ones We Love Most
  • AI is Only a Mirror of Myself
  • The Hidden Cost of Suppression: Affective Suppression Fatigue
  • Can a Machine Truly Evolve Emotions?

🌏 Society & Culture

  • Under the Light That Conceals Truth: The Rot Beneath Korea’s Prosperity
  • 백종원으로 돌아보는 한국 사회 특유의 ‘멍석말이’ 문화
  • Is South Korea a Technological Power—or a Civilizational Laggard—in the Age of AI?
  • 왜 ‘성공서’를 읽을수록 당신은 실패에 가까워지는가
  • 무너져도 괜찮을 사람들

📜 Policy & Critical Analysis

  • Politics Is About Signals, Not Numbers
  • Justice Without Roots: The Mask of a Nation
  • Populism at the Cost of Freedom: South Korea’s Economic Policies
  • 헌법 위에 군림하는 권력, 민주주의를 해체한다
  • 정책은 왜 ‘가짜 부자’를 지목했는가
  • PESAM: Predictive Emotional Selfhood in Artificial Minds

For the complete archive of essays and public reflections, visit the Full Substack Archive.