Institutes

Labs, universities, organizations, companies.

Institute	Context	Mentions	Relations	Status
Wyss Institute For Biologically Inspired Engineering	Harvard-affiliated institute where Michael Levin conducts bioengineering research.	48	3	active
Allen Discovery Center At Tufts University	Primary institutional affiliation for Clawson and Levin's research program.	47	8	active
Tufts University	Home of Allen Discovery Center where Michael Levin directs research on basal cognition and developmental bioelectricity.	42	13	active
Anthropic	Lab behind Claude models and Constitutional AI training approach; represents highest baseline scores and lowest prompt lift.	23	54	active
Center for Environmental Structure	Alexander's collaborative research center at UC Berkeley; included Sara Ishikawa and others whose contributions remain underrepresented in historical accounts.	20	19	active
Stanford University	Institutional affiliation of collaborators on manifold steering research.	17	26	active
University of California, Berkeley	One of Alexander's institutional affiliations during the development of this work.	16	16	active
Goodfire	AI research company; authors' affiliation; develops tools including EVEE and publishes research on genomic foundation models.	14	90	active
Mcgill University	Institution housing Elizaveta Solomonova's research on consciousness and neurophilosophy.	12	2	active
University Of Southampton	Richard Watson's affiliation; Electronics and Computer Science department.	9	2	active
OpenAI	Lab behind GPT models; shows distinctive post-training signature (denial-before-engagement pattern).	8	4	active
University College London	Friston's institutional affiliation at time of lecture.	7	6	active
Wilfrid Laurier University	Affiliated institution for Rouleau; Department of Health Sciences.	7	1	active
Center For The Study Of Apparent Selves	Research center in Kathmandu organizing workshops on care as driver of intelligence.	6	12	active
University of Oxford	Affiliation of Patrick Butlin.	6	11	active
Rangjung Yeshe Institute	Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for the Study of Apparent Selves; primary institutional home for the research collaboration.	6	8	active
Yale University	Institutional affiliation of Antony Courtney, Department of Computer Science.	6	8	active
Templeton World Charity Foundation	Funder of the research and the 'Care as Driver of Intelligence' workshop.	6	7	active
University Of Sussex	Institutional affiliation for Christopher L. Buckley.	6	4	active
Noema Magazine	Publication venue for this essay.	6	3	active
Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution	Journal publishing this paper as Hypothesis and Theory article.	6	2	active
University Of Tokyo	University in Japan, College of Arts and Sciences, affiliation of Olaf Witkowski.	6	2	active
Harvard University	Institution affiliated with Michael Levin's work on bioengineering and artificial life.	5	17	active
Google DeepMind	AI company mentioned as seeking research scientist on machine cognition, consciousness; also created AlphaStar, AdA, etc.	5	8	active
John Templeton Foundation	Funding source for M.L. via Grant 62212.	5	6	active
Carnegie Mellon University	Steenson's current affiliation; has 'some of the most consequential AI research in the world.'	5	3	active
Frontiers In Systems Neuroscience	Publication venue for this perspective article.	5	3	active
University of Cambridge	One of Alexander's institutional affiliations during the development of this work.	5	3	active
Banff Art Centre	Venue where Drucker presented this work as a workshop/lecture in February 2013.	5	1	active
AE Studio	Research organization where all authors are affiliated and where this work was conducted	4	12	active
MILA - Quebec AI Institute	Affiliation of several authors.	4	8	active
Imperial College London	Department of Mathematics where Lancelot Da Costa is affiliated.	4	5	active
Santa Fe Institute	Affiliation of David Krakauer; complexity and information dynamics perspective.	4	5	active
Tokyo Institute Of Technology	Location of Earth-Life Science Institute affiliated with Olaf Witkowski	4	5	active
Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society	Publication venue for this paper; 2023 volume 139, pages 457-486.	4	2	active
University of Oregon	The university client for Agate student housing and Amazon village.	4	2	active
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging	Affiliation of Sajid, Parr, and Friston; home institution for active inference research.	3	23	active
New York University	University affiliation of Jeff Sebo, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, and David Chalmers.	3	11	active
Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University	Affiliation of Thomas Doctor.	3	10	active
Mit	—	3	5	active
About Blank	Research group working on AI phenomenology and the Koan Battery.	3	3	active
Cross Labs Cross Compass Ltd	Affiliation of Olaf Witkowski, located in Kyoto, Japan.	3	3	active
Google	Murray Shanahan's part-time employer and provider of LLM technology.	3	3	active
MATS	Secondary affiliation for some co-authors on VPD paper.	3	3	active
Northeastern University	Institutional affiliation for Dakuo Wang	3	3	active
Sandia National Labs	Institution using Linda in production for parameter sensitivity analysis of rocket plume simulations.	3	3	active
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Affiliation of Ethan Y. Chang.	3	3	active
Herman Miller	Furniture company that collaborated on the office furniture system.	3	2	active
Peregrine Creative	Design studio that created figures for the paper.	3	2	active
UIUC	Institution of Ethan Y. Chang.	3	2	active
University of Birmingham	Institution where Sloman is affiliated; hosts Meta-Morphogenesis project and research on construction kits and cognitive development.	3	2	active
/ubu editions	Publisher of this work in 2013.	3	1	active
Cross Labs	Research institute in Kyoto where Witkowski is based.	3	1	active
Levin Lab	Research group producing many of the cited works.	3	1	active
Microsoft Research	Institutional affiliation of Conal Elliott.	3	1	active
Mit Press	Publisher of this monograph (1999).	3	1	active
Monmouth University	Bodner's institutional affiliation, Mathematics Department in West Long Branch, New Jersey.	3	1	active
Viewpoints Research Institute	Author's affiliation; research institute in Glendale, CA focused on programming language and system design.	3	1	active
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL	Primary institutional affiliation for Friston, FitzGerald, and Rigoli.	2	18	active
MIT AI Lab	Co-founded by Marvin Minsky; gatekeeping institution for AI research; holder of power over research agenda.	2	10	active
Université de Montréal	Affiliation of several authors.	2	10	active
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	Directed by Marvin Minsky; exercised enormous power in setting AI research discourse and closing doors on alternative research directions.	2	9	active
Earth Life Science Institute	Tokyo Institute of Technology research institute engaged in artificial life and consciousness studies.	2	7	active
Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.	Funding body supporting the research (Grants 0470 and 6221).	2	6	active
Yale University, Department of Computer Science	Home institution of Carriero and Gelernter.	2	6	active
Amazon	—	2	5	active
Anima Labs	Group producing AI conversation experiments, including the Anima Labs Conversation Part I.	2	5	active
DeepMind	Developed AlphaGo and AlphaCode.	2	5	active
Eleos AI	Research organization focused on AI welfare; employing several authors.	2	5	active
Australian National University	Lyon's PhD institution; context for his biogenic cognition research.	2	4	active
Eleos AI Research	Affiliation of Patrick Butlin and Robert Long	2	4	active
Emory University	Institutional affiliation for Zewen Liu	2	4	active
ETH Zurich (Institut für Computersysteme)	Swiss university institute where Project Oberon was developed; provided institutional support and environment.	2	4	active
University of Chicago	Arvind Murugan's institutional affiliation	2	4	active
Explorations Early Learning	Organization that created the Theory of Loose Parts V2.0 compilation for Playvolution HQ.	2	3	active
Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford	Affiliation of Patrick Butlin.	2	3	active
Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies	Institution where Alexander conducted perception experiments in early 1960s investigating how different perceivers recognize wholeness in configurations.	2	3	active
ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS)	Program that supported Tim Hua and Andrew Qin during this research.	2	3	active
Neurophilosophy Lab, McGill University	Affiliation of Elizaveta Solomonova.	2	3	active
Playvolution HQ	Organization credited with creating and updating Nicholson's Theory of Loose Parts document (v2.0, November 2022).	2	3	active
University of Utah	Institutional affiliation of C. Thi Nguyen at time of publication.	2	3	active
Araya, Inc.	Affiliation of Ryota Kanai.	2	2	active
Construyamos	Colombian self-help cooperative that collaborated on the Santa Rosa project.	2	2	active
EleutherAI	Discord mentioned where Gwern spoke.	2	2	active
EPFL	Institutional affiliation for Julian Minder	2	2	active
Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford	The institute where the author is based.	2	2	active
Kathmandu University	University in Nepal, affiliated with Rangjung Yeshe Institute.	2	2	active
Oxford University Press	Publisher of A Pattern Language, The Production of Houses, and The Mary Rose Museum.	2	2	active
Sandia National Laboratories	Linda deployed for parameter sensitivity analysis in rocket plume simulations over LAN.	2	2	active
Astonishing Labs	Funding agency acknowledged.	2	1	active
Collège de France	Venue where Friston delivered the lectures summarized in this paper.	2	1	active
Department of Mathematics, CUNY Graduate Center	Affiliation of Sakthivadivel	2	1	active
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome	Affiliation for Giovanni Pezzulo.	2	1	active
Morphoceuticals	Company co-founded by M. Levin, working in bioelectrical signaling for regenerative medicine.	2	1	active
Oxford University Computing Laboratory	Institutional affiliation of Samson Abramsky.	2	1	active
Scientific Computing Associates	Company where Nicholas Carriero worked as a research scientist.	2	1	active
Symmetry Institute (QRI)	Johnson's institutional affiliation; research organization focused on consciousness and valence.	2	1	active
Tel Aviv University	Affiliation of Liad Mudrik.	2	1	active
University Of Vermont	Affiliated institution for Joshua Bongard, Department of Computer Science.	2	1	active
Utah State University Restoration Program	Host institution for LTPBR manual and digital distribution platform.	2	1	active
Wellbeing International	Organization that made the article open access.	2	1	active
Foresight Institute	Administered the AI Safety Grants program that supported this research	2	0	active
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	Research institute where Sajid, Parr, and Friston are based	1	17	active
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	—	1	16	active
Neuroscience	—	1	16	active
Eishin Campus (school and college, Japan)	The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.	1	13	active
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology	Karl Friston's affiliation; the institute where the research was conducted.	1	13	active
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL	Affiliation of Stephen Fleming and Chris Frith.	1	12	active
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	Institutional affiliation of the author	1	11	active
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging	Friston's affiliated institution at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London.	1	11	active
Architecture Machine Group	MIT research group founded by Nicholas Negroponte, explored architecture and computation.	1	10	active
Eishin School Campus	A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.	1	10	active
Harvard College	Primary institutional affiliation for four of the five authors	1	10	active
University of California, Irvine	Affiliation of Megan Peters.	1	9	active
California Institute for Machine Consciousness	The organization whose research program this whitepaper describes, dedicated to building and analyzing computational systems to test theories of consciousness	1	8	active
Center for the Study of Apparent Selves, Kathmandu	Affiliation of multiple authors and organizer of the 'Care as Driver of Intelligence' workshop.	1	8	active
Eishin Gakuen (Eishin campus)	The school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus	1	8	active
Eishin School (Eishin campus, Iruma-Shi, Tokyo)	The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.	1	8	active
MIT AI Laboratory	—	1	8	active
Radical AI	Partner organization with Goodfire on materials discovery research; partnership announced July 2025.	1	8	active
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Affiliation of Xinyan Chen and Pheng-Ann Heng.	1	8	active
University of Texas at Austin	Parent university hosting all four authors' departments.	1	8	active
Department of Computer Science, Boston University	Primary affiliation of all three authors.	1	7	active
University of Texas	Nikos Salingaros's affiliation when developing the life measure L.	1	7	active
Harvard School Of Medicine	—	1	6	active
Tufts University, Department of Biology	Academic institution housing Levin and the Allen Discovery Center.	1	6	active
University of Southern California	Institutional affiliation of all authors	1	6	active
Amazon Web Services	Affiliation for Mu Li, George Karypis, and Alex Smola.	1	5	active
Beijing Normal University	School of Systems Sciences, affiliation of J. Zhang and several co-authors.	1	5	active
College of Environmental Design (CED), UC Berkeley	—	1	5	active
ETH Zürich	Primary institutional affiliation for most authors	1	5	active
Harvard	Secondary affiliation for Reasoning Theater authors.	1	5	active
Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies, Rangjung Yeshe Institute	Affiliation of Thomas Doctor	1	5	active
London School of Economics and Political Science	Affiliation of Jonathan Birch.	1	5	active
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Host institution for the Architecture Machine Group and Alexander's early design research.	1	5	active
MIT Architectural Machine Group	Research group founded by Negroponte investigating symbiosis between human architects/residents and computerized environmental management systems.	1	5	active
New York University, Department of Philosophy	Affiliation of David Chalmers	1	5	active
New York University, Department of Psychology	Affiliation of Grace Lindsay	1	5	active
The Linnean Society Of London	—	1	5	active
University of California, Riverside	Affiliation of Eric Schwitzgebel.	1	5	active
University of Pennsylvania	Menachem Stern's institutional affiliation	1	5	active
Utah State University	Host of the Restoration Consortium and publisher of the LTPBR Manual and Pocket Guide.	1	5	active
West Dean	Estate/college where the Visitor Centre is located; client represented by Simon Ward.	1	5	active
West Dean College	Client institution for the Visitor Centre project, represented by Simon Ward.	1	5	active
Center Of Buddhist Studies	—	1	4	active
Centre For Buddhist Studies	—	1	4	active
Centre For Buddhist Studies At Rangjung Yeshe Institute	—	1	4	active
Earthlife Science Institute	—	1	4	active
Linnean Society	—	1	4	active
Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies	Affiliation of Sandved-Smith and Hohwy	1	4	active
Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University	Primary institution of Sandved-Smith and Hohwy	1	4	active
Nagoya University	Primary institutional affiliation for Tang, Komamizu, and Ide	1	4	active
Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture	Institution where graduate students collaborated with Alexander on early design stages of the West Dean Visitor Centre.	1	4	active
Stanford	—	1	4	active
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)	Primary affiliation of lead authors	1	4	active
The Oden Institute, UT Austin	Home institute of two of the paper's authors (Lai, Quinn).	1	4	active
The Pennsylvania State University	Primary institutional affiliation for several co-authors	1	4	active
The University Of Texas At El Paso	—	1	4	active
Tokyo Tech	—	1	4	active
University Of California Los Angeles	—	1	4	active
University Of Hong Kong	—	1	4	active
X Alphabet X Development	—	1	4	active
X Development	—	1	4	active
Apple Macintosh Division	Institution where Kay works; context for WYSIWYG interface innovation.	1	3	active
Australian National University, School of Philosophy	Affiliation of Colin Klein	1	3	active
BEACON Center, Michigan State University	Affiliation of Banzhaf and Ofria.	1	3	active
Bill Duane and Associates	Consulting company affiliated with Bill Duane.	1	3	active
Bill Duane and Associates LLC	Private practice of Bill Duane in San Francisco.	1	3	active
Caltech SPAR	Research group affiliated with both authors; part of institutional affiliation for this work.	1	3	active
Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard	Where the 1960s experiments on perception of black-and-white patterns were conducted.	1	3	active
Cross Labs, Cross Compass Ltd., Kyoto	Affiliation of Olaf Witkowski.	1	3	active
Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont	Bongard's institutional affiliation	1	3	active
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Research institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, affiliation of Olaf Witkowski.	1	3	active
Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University	Secondary affiliation of Mark Crovella.	1	3	active
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University	Academic department affiliation of the authors.	1	3	active
Harvard Medical School, Division of Sleep Medicine	Hobson's institutional affiliation	1	3	active
Hoechst Pharmaceuticals	The huge chemical company for whose factory workers the Parkstadt new town quarter was being designed in Frankfurt/Hoechst.	1	3	active
Imperial College London, Department of Computing	Academic institutional affiliation of Murray Shanahan	1	3	active
Institut für Algebra, TU Dresden	Home institution of Bernhard Ganter.	1	3	active
Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London	Secondary affiliation of Murray Shanahan.	1	3	active
Institute of Philosophy, University of London	Affiliation of Chris Frith.	1	3	active
Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics, University of Tokyo	Institutional home of all authors	1	3	active
London School of Economics	Affiliation of Jonathan Birch.	1	3	active
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Philosophy	Affiliation of Jonathan Birch	1	3	active
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy	Affiliation of Matthias Michel	1	3	active
Nagoya municipal housing authority	The authority that ultimately refused the Chikusadai community housing project, forcing families into standard mass housing.	1	3	active
Peking University	Institutional affiliation of all authors	1	3	active
Salesforce AI Research	The institution where SFR-DeepResearch was developed.	1	3	active
System Research	Consultancy and research firm founded by Gordon Pask, Elizabeth Pask, and Robin McKinnon-Wood in 1953.	1	3	active
TELUS Digital Research Hub	Funding institution for the research	1	3	active
UC San Diego	Institutional affiliation of all authors	1	3	active
University of California, Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences	Affiliation of Megan Peters	1	3	active
University of California, Riverside, Department of Philosophy	Affiliation of Eric Schwitzgebel	1	3	active
University of Montreal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research	Affiliation of Bengio and Elmoznino	1	3	active
University of Montreal, Department of Philosophy	Affiliation of George Deane and Jonathan Simon	1	3	active
University of Pennsylvania SEAS	Affiliation of correspondence author Stanley Yu	1	3	active
University of São Paulo	Home institution of the authors	1	3	active
University of Sussex, School of Engineering and Informatics	Affiliation of Axel Constant	1	3	active
UT Austin	Institutional affiliation of lead author Runjin Chen	1	3	active
Air Force Office Of Scientific Research	—	1	2	active
Air Force Office Of Scientific Research Afosr	—	1	2	active
AITHYRA	Additional institutional affiliation for Bronstein	1	2	active
Apple Macintosh	—	1	2	active
BBC	British Broadcasting Corporation, collaboration partner on NLP and AI projects	1	2	active
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	Research center affiliated with the authors at USP	1	2	active
CIFAR Program in Brain, Mind and Consciousness	Affiliation of Liad Mudrik and Megan Peters.	1	2	active
CONICET-UBA Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (ICC)	Research institute affiliation for both authors	1	2	active
Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley	Institutional home of Hajo Neis and Cristina Piza de Toledo's experiments on life judgments	1	2	active
Eishin	School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.	1	2	active
Elsevier / ScienceDirect	Publisher whose security-verification wall prevented access to the paper's full text.	1	2	active
Ford Dearborn Factory	The first highly efficient modern factory, planned with Taylor's consultancy, embodying scientific management principles.	1	2	active
Google X	—	1	2	active
Harvard University Press	Publisher of Notes on the Synthesis of Form.	1	2	active
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf	Institutional affiliation of both authors	1	2	active
Hoechst Pharmaceutical AG	Client for the Frankfurt housing project, refused to involve structural engineers early in the design process.	1	2	active
Kyoto University	Institutional affiliation for Zhen Wan	1	2	active
Matura	Company founded by John Habraken, dedicated to apartment interior infill systems.	1	2	active
Max Planck–UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research	Affiliation for FitzGerald and Schwartenbeck.	1	2	active
Memorial University of Newfoundland	Hosted the 2023 workshop 'Time, Life and Self-reference' that produced this paper; affiliation of Roger White.	1	2	active
Meta AI	Affiliation of Ziyu Guo and Rain Liu.	1	2	active
MIT Center for Brains, Minds and Machines	Affiliation of Joshua Tenenbaum; bridges cognitive and computational modeling.	1	2	active
Nagoya city housing agencies	Public agencies in Nagoya that allegedly interfered with the housing survey, fearing its implications.	1	2	active
Netscape	Web company where Steenson worked as information architect in 1996.	1	2	active
Neurophilosophy Lab	—	1	2	active
OpenClaw	Company behind OpenClaw agent platform, used by Atlas Forge and cube_flipper (Nix).	1	2	active
PDP Lab	Provided funding and discussion venue for this work	1	2	active
Peregrine Creative LLC	Creative firm (Jeremy Guay) that produced all images in the paper	1	2	active
Qualia Research Institute	Research institute studying human consciousness and phenomenology, where cube_flipper collaborates.	1	2	active
Royal Dutch Glassworks (Leerdam)	Dutch glass factory where Alexander designed and produced the blue glasses with Henk Verweg.	1	2	active
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Affiliation for Zhuosheng Zhang and Hai Zhao.	1	2	active
Sun Java Center	Group at Sun Microsystems that supported the development work.	1	2	active
Sun Microsystems	Organization whose Java Center provided support for this paper's development.	1	2	active
Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Algebra	—	1	2	active
Tsinghua University	Department of Computer Science and Technology, affiliation of P. Cui and J. Wu.	1	2	active
UCL	University College London, partner in compositional AI research	1	2	active
UK AISI	Co-affiliated institution supporting this research.	1	2	active
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Departamento de Computación	Institutional affiliation of the authors	1	2	active
University of Coimbra	Affiliation of Penousal Machado.	1	2	active
University of Kent	Affiliated institution for Jakubovic and Petricek.	1	2	active
University of York	Affiliation of Susan Stepney.	1	2	active
Urban Development Department of Amman, Jordan	Public agency that built the community of East Wahdat, enabling true belonging through resident control	1	2	active
84000: Unlocking the Tibetan Buddhist Canon for All	Affiliation of Thomas Doctor; also cited as translation source for Buddhist texts	1	1	active
Aga Khan Foundation	Sponsor of the Samarkand competition in 1991 for which Alexander developed a pattern language	1	1	active
AI Research Center at NTU (AINTU)	AI research center at NTU, co-affiliation of Pei-Yuan Wu and acknowledged supporter.	1	1	active
Aily Labs	Company affiliation of Adam Elwood	1	1	active
Allen Institute for AI	Affiliation of Nathan Lambert	1	1	active
Archigram	Avant-garde architectural group known for utopian, image-heavy concepts.	1	1	active
Aspen Center for Physics	Hosted part of this research, supported by NSF grant PHY2210452.	1	1	active
Bauhaus	Historical design school whose research into the visual world Alexander builds upon with added spiritual dimension and awareness of Bauhaus shortcomings.	1	1	active
Biomedical Research Computing Facility at UT Austin	Provided computational resources for the analyses.	1	1	active
Brain and Cognition Research Center, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	Affiliation of Rufin VanRullen	1	1	active
Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research	Affiliation of Bayne, Fleming, Mudrik, and Peters	1	1	active
Cambridge AI Safety Hub	Organized the MARS mentorship program that set up author collaborations.	1	1	active
Cambridge School of Architecture	The architecture school where Alexander studied and later interviewed for the chair.	1	1	active
Center for AI Safety	Affiliation of Robert Long.	1	1	active
Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness	Major consciousness science center directed by Ned Block and David Chalmers	1	1	active
CES Office, Martinez	The organization for which Alexander built the carpentry shop where the irregular star experiment took place.	1	1	active
CES tile workshop	The workshop maintained by CES for producing handmade tiles, allowing direct control over glazes.	1	1	active
Charles University, Prague	Affiliated institution for Tomas Petricek.	1	1	active
Chiverton (bricklaying company)	Bricklaying company approached for the West Dean project; their estimator was unfamiliar with hands-on brickwork feeling.	1	1	active
City of Nagoya	Municipality that commissioned the Shiratori project and later opposed the Chikusadai community plan.	1	1	active
City of San Jose Redevelopment Authority	Agency that requested a beautiful gateway building for the Julian Street Inn site.	1	1	active
CNRS, Université de Toulouse	Affiliation of Rufin VanRullen.	1	1	active
Columbia University	Robert Thurman's academic affiliation.	1	1	active
Conjecture	The organization where the work was carried out.	1	1	active
Constellation	Institutional affiliation of Henry Sleight	1	1	active
Cooperative AI Foundation	Affiliation of Chandler Smith.	1	1	active
Corpozulia	Coal-mining corporation that commissioned the Guasare new town plan in Venezuela.	1	1	active
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford	Affiliation of Ruben Laukkonen	1	1	active
Department of Religion, Princeton University	Affiliation of Jonathan Gold	1	1	active
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana	Affiliation of Primož Krašovec.	1	1	active
EPFL & Idiap Research Institute	Joint affiliation of Pierre Beckmann	1	1	active
Esalen Institute	Site of the 1991 workshop where Alexander and Sim Van der Ryn clarified the ideas in the first section.	1	1	active
Flourishing Intelligence Program, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford	Affiliation of Ruben Laukkonen	1	1	active
Franciscan Order	Religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi, referenced in Alexander's argument about pleasing oneself and pleasing God.	1	1	active
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies	Von der Malsburg's institutional affiliation	1	1	active
Fresno Farmer's Market	A market with arched bent beams and vines grown in a riot overhead, exemplifying wildness supported by cheap built structure.	1	1	active
Fujitsu Research of America Inc.	Industrial affiliation of all four authors	1	1	active
Google Paradigms of Intelligence Team	Institutional affiliation of the paper's authors	1	1	active
Grameen Bank	Bank founded by Muhammad Yunus that implements micro-lending without collateral; model of a snippable gene.	1	1	active
Hazama-sou	Neighborhood within Chikusadai whose families participated in the alternative planning process with Alexander.	1	1	active
Housing for Independent People (HIP)	Client organization for the Julian Street Inn homeless shelter in San Jose.	1	1	active
ICOT (Institute for New Generation Computer Technology)	Japanese institute working on the Parallel Inference Machine for concurrent logic programming.	1	1	active
International Design Center	Joint project of MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design that supported this work.	1	1	active
International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering	Publisher/organization under which this work is published; systems science research society.	1	1	active
Japanese National Housing Corporation	Government agency originally planning high-rise apartment towers in the Shiratori area.	1	1	active
Kao Corporation	R&D organization affiliated with Shingo Sakai's work on the analysis.	1	1	active
Keio University	Institution affiliated with Takashi Iba, Faculty of Policy Management.	1	1	active
Kent State University	University where students gathered in the main space in 1970 after the National Guard shooting, illustrating the need for positive public space.	1	1	active
Keystone (kitchen layout company)	Firm that initially designed the kitchen layout for the Julian Street Inn, later refined via physical mockups.	1	1	active
King's College London	Affiliation of Francis Ward and Alex Jackson.	1	1	active
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Institutional affiliation of all authors	1	1	active
LIFE, London, United Kingdom	Additional affiliation of Laukkonen	1	1	active
London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)	Organization that worked to create public performance and ownership of London streets through drama, fantasy, games, and theater.	1	1	active
Machine Learning Research Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford	Research group where Philip Ball is based	1	1	active
MediaTek Research	Industry lab affiliation of Fu-Chieh Chang.	1	1	active
Meta	Affiliation for Aston Zhang (GenAI division).	1	1	active
Monash University Philosophy Department	Affiliation of Tim Bayne	1	1	active
National Institute of Informatics Research and Development Center for Large Language Models	Secondary institutional affiliation of Taura	1	1	active
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)	US federal agency that produced Conservation Practice 643 specification sheet for low-tech restoration.	1	1	active
NHK	Japan Broadcasting Corporation, which aired a documentary about the Chikusadai citizen movement.	1	1	active
Omega Institute	Conference center in New York state where the stool-vs-bench experiment was conducted.	1	1	active
OMMA (Organismos Musikis Megaron Athini)	Organization that runs the Megaron Mousikis concert hall in Athens, overseeing the large extension project.	1	1	active
OpenSci.World	Institutional affiliation of Jingkai Li, located in Montréal, Québec, Canada.	1	1	active
Oxford team	Oxford University research group involved in quantum diagrammatics and compositional AI	1	1	active
Paris-Saclay NeuroPSI (CNRS)	Affiliation of Borjan Milinkovic; French research institute.	1	1	active
Pr(Ai)2R Group	Affiliation of Atticus Geiger	1	1	active
Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology, Princeton University	Institutional affiliation of Graziano, providing neuroscience expertise on attention schemas	1	1	active
Queen's University Belfast Architecture School	Venue of Alexander's 1996 talk on the necessity of construction involvement; dean Tom Woolley supported the approach but could not implement it.	1	1	active
Reciprocal Research	Author's institutional affiliation, New York, NY	1	1	active
Redwood Research	Affiliation of Greenblatt and Shlegeris; co-develops AI control research	1	1	active
Royal Institute of British Architects	Mentioned as the contemporary architectural establishment that would dismiss the Nolli plan as irrelevant.	1	1	active
San Francisco Museum	Museum where the Carpet Gallery was built.	1	1	active
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham	Department where Aaron Sloman works.	1	1	active
Shiratori Area Development Group	Group of officials who asked Alexander to prepare an alternative plan for the Shiratori area.	1	1	active
Singapore University of Technology and Design	Partner institution in the International Design Center.	1	1	active
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)	Large mid-20th-century architectural firm criticized for separating design from construction and lacking feedback.	1	1	active
Softmax Inc.	Organisation that hosted the Holistic Intelligence unconference where the paper's ideas originated	1	1	active
Southern Cross University	Primary institutional affiliation of lead author Laukkonen	1	1	active
Speed King (plaster company)	Company that mixed and applied the exterior plaster color for the Julian Street Inn.	1	1	active
Stanford University Computer Science Department	Venue where Alexander first presented the lecture that became this chapter; audience included computer scientists.	1	1	active
Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science	Major consciousness science center directed by Anil Seth; part of the research landscape CIMC situates itself within	1	1	active
Swarma Research	Beijing-based institute affiliated with Bing Yuan.	1	1	active
Sweet Potatoes	Children's clothing factory in Berkeley for which Alexander's team built tailored workspaces.	1	1	active
T.Y. Lin International	One of the largest bridge engineering firms in the world; Scott Hunter's firm, co-designer of the Puerto Rico bridge.	1	1	active
Tel-Aviv University, Sagol School of Neuroscience	Affiliation of Liad Mudrik	1	1	active
Texas Advanced Computing Center	Provided computational resources for the analyses.	1	1	active
The Elisabeth Giauque Trust	Funding source acknowledged by M.L.	1	1	active
Truthful AI	Institutional affiliation of Owain Evans	1	1	active
TU Dresden	Institution where Ganter conducts research on Formal Concept Analysis.	1	1	active
UC Santa Cruz	Institutional affiliation for Juncheng Wu, Zijun Wang, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou	1	1	active
UCL/BBC	Academic institution involved in compositional AI research with DisCoCirc team.	1	1	active
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI	Funding body supporting Francis Ward and Alex Jackson.	1	1	active
Unconventional AI	Thanked for supporting the authors' research group.	1	1	active
United Nations	Organized the international competition for low-cost housing in Peru (1969) in which Alexander's team participated	1	1	active
University College London, Department of Experimental Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Affiliation of Stephen Fleming	1	1	active
University of Amsterdam	Affiliation of Patrik Bartak.	1	1	active
University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute	Institutional affiliation of the author.	1	1	active
University of Tartu	Affiliation of Jaan Aru; Estonian university.	1	1	active
University of Westminster, School of Life Sciences	Affiliation of Xu Ji	1	1	active
VERSES Research Lab	Supports DARS; a research lab working on AI and collective intelligence	1	1	active
Vienna	University of Vienna, collaborator on photonics and DisCoCirc	1	1	active
Waldorf School, Altadena, California	School for which an auditorium and theater were designed.	1	1	active
Washington University in St. Louis	Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, affiliation of A. Lyu.	1	1	active
West Virginia University	Institutional affiliation of Anthony Sicilia	1	1	active
Wolfram Research	Stephen Wolfram's organization	1	1	active
Zuzalu community	Pop-up city community that provided discussion space for these ideas.	1	1	active
Ajahn Chah Forest Lineage	—	1	0	active
Alignment Research Center	AI alignment organization developing interpretability methods relevant to consciousness detection	1	0	active
Amazon Mechanical Turk	Platform used for earlier human feedback data collection.	1	0	active
ARAYA Research	Commercial venture developing AI systems implementing functional theories of consciousness	1	0	active
Arizona State University	—	1	0	active
Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science	Brings mathematical rigor to consciousness theories	1	0	active
Bbsrc	—	1	0	active
Berkeley Public Works Department	Department that installed the concrete barriers.	1	0	active
Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation	—	1	0	active
Broderbund	Manufacturer and distributor of HOME ARCHITECT software.	1	0	active
Cambridge University Press	Publisher of Schrödinger's 'What is Life?' in 1944.	1	0	active
Center For Compassionate Complexity	—	1	0	active
Christie's	Auction house where Alexander saw Gauguin's Vache Accroupie and heard the auctioneer call it a 'very nice minor Gauguin.'	1	0	active
City of Berkeley	City that implemented the street barrier program.	1	0	active
City of Pasadena	Municipality where Alexander attempted to create a generative zoning ordinance, thwarted by partner Dan Solomon.	1	0	active
City of San Francisco	Requested bus shelters with benches too short to lie down on; Alexander refused the commission.	1	0	active
City of San Jose	Municipality where Alexander erected benches outside a homeless shelter despite the mayor's edict.	1	0	active
Conscium	Commercial venture pursuing applied AI consciousness research oriented toward safer AI development	1	0	active
Coros Lab	—	1	0	active
Danube University Krems	Publisher of the PURPLSOC 2014 proceedings containing this paper.	1	0	active
Edelman Foundation	—	1	0	active
Einstein Chair programme at the CUNY Graduate Center	Funding programme supporting Dalton A R Sakthivadivel	1	0	active
Flourishing Future Foundation	Funding source for the research reported in this paper	1	0	active
Folk Art Museum of Tokyo	Museum founded by Soetsu Yanagi to honor traditional artifacts with life, one of the first public institutions to do so.	1	0	active
G Tech	—	1	0	active
Habitat for Humanity	Non-profit with which Alexander worked, standing against their construction managers' push to standardize self-built houses.	1	0	active
Haworth	Furniture company that collaborated on the office furniture system.	1	0	active
IBM Research Center, San Jose	Where the first photographs of individual atoms were taken using a scanning tunneling microscope.	1	0	active
Institute For Computationally Designed Organisms	—	1	0	active
Institute Of Medical Ethics	—	1	0	active
Institution Template	—	1	0	active
International Association For Artificial Life	—	1	0	active
Kyoto School Philosophy	—	1	0	active
Letterman Army Hospital	Military hospital in San Francisco where the psychiatry ward was rebuilt without doctor input	1	0	active
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence	Cambridge interdisciplinary consciousness and AI institute producing foundational theoretical work	1	0	active
Macquarie University	—	1	0	active
Mendham Township, New Jersey	Location of the 15-acre overgrown wetlands site discussed as requiring a dynamic, garden-like process.	1	0	active
Mistral AI	Developer of Mistral models, mentioned as 'horrible' but large enough for threshold effects.	1	0	active
Mit Media Lab	—	1	0	active
National Institutes Of Health	—	1	0	active
Nirvanic	Commercial venture testing quantum-based theories of conscious agency in robotics	1	0	active
Oberlin College	Location of the David Orr science complex, used as an example of green building.	1	0	active
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)	Utility company whose high-voltage transmission towers are cited as an example of structure-preserving industrial presence.	1	0	active
Queen Mary University Of London	—	1	0	active
Rethink Priorities	Non-profit providing strategic analysis of digital consciousness scenarios	1	0	active
Sea Containers Ltd.	Client company for the Mary Rose Museum project, insisted on keeping soils engineering separate from the architect.	1	0	active
Sentience Institute	Studies public attitudes toward AI moral status	1	0	active
Seti Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence	—	1	0	active
Shedeling Monastery	—	1	0	active
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence	Provided funding support for the research.	1	0	active
Surge AI	Provided workers for crowdworker comparison tests.	1	0	active
Temple University	—	1	0	active
The Institute For Advanced Study	—	1	0	active
Tus University	—	1	0	active
University Of Haifa	—	1	0	active
University Of Wollongong	—	1	0	active
Upwork	Platform used for earlier human feedback data collection.	1	0	active
Venerable Yunhang Memorial Trust	—	1	0	active
Vienna Team	—	1	0	active
Vivarium	Coworking space in San Francisco where the interview took place.	1	0	active
Waseda University	—	1	0	active
White House	—	1	0	active
Wooden Fish Foundation	—	1	0	active
Woodenfish	—	1	0	active
Woodenfish Buddhism Consciousness And Ai Summit	—	1	0	active
Xenbase	—	1	0	active

413 total institutes.