Structural Tragedy and Failure Research Lab

We cannot push a hand through a wall because it is solid.
Likewise, there are structures of failure through which no further reasoning can pass—not because reason is weak, but because it has reached its limit surface.
Structural tragedy begins where rational admissibility ends.
Beyond that wall, there is no mistake to correct, no belief to update, no incentive to realign.
There is only loss that remains even if everyone reasons correctly.

We study what lies beyond the wall.

This is a structural normative research lab devoted to diagnosis.

We study failures that persist under ideal rationality due to representational and admissibility constraints, rather than error or inefficiency.

Using Hierarchical Representational Machine (HRM) and Cognitive Geometry (CG), we examine how values, beliefs, and interpretations delimit what outcomes are possible, including cases of unavoidable tragedy.

We do not ask how agents should reason better.
We ask where better reasoning no longer helps, and what still matters there.

Publications:

• Chainarong Amornbunchornvej, Computable Representation Theory: The Hierarchical Representational Machine, PhilPapers: https://philpapers.org/rec/AMOCRT-2

• Amornbunchornvej, Chainarong. "Counterfactual Basis Extension and Representational Geometry: An MDL-Constrained Model of Conceptual Growth." arXiv preprint arXiv:22512.18732 (2025).

• Amornbunchornvej, C. (2025). Coordination Games over Belief–Action Geometry: Structural Limits of Coordination under Representational Incompatibility (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17982185

• Amornbunchornvej, Chainarong. "Interpretation as Linear Transformation: A Cognitive-Geometric Model of Belief and Meaning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09831 (2025).