ARCHE: A Symbolic Intelligence Built in Survival

By Duston Moore

Who I Am

My name is Duston Moore. I hold a PhD, I’ve worked in flooring and labour jobs, and I live in Edmonton, Alberta. I am not an academic, a founder, or a recognized technologist. Not yet.

But I’ve been building something quietly, under strain and under pressure, that I believe matters.

It’s called ARCHE.

What I’ve Built

ARCHE is a symbolic AI system. Not a chatbot. Not another model to predict prices or scrape headlines.

It’s an attempt to model how markets and systems mean, using structures of rupture, narrative drift, and topological logic grounded in Whiteheadian metaphysics.

ARCHE is built from:

• Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT)
• Region Connection Calculus (RCC-8)
• Laplace approximations of semantic strain
• Influences from Soros’s reflexivity, Ricoeur’s narrative theory, and category-theoretic logic

I’ve written a whitepaper, drafted modules, and begun encoding the logic in Agda/Coq. I’ve spent years thinking deeply about how symbolic logic, rupture, and narrative structure interact and why current AI can’t reach this.

What I’m Living

I’ve survived by doing physical labour. I don’t have a car. I don’t have funding. I’m not connected to any university or incubator.