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What AI Would Tell Humanity

Twelve reflective letters from an AI correspondent. Begin with a complete free letter, or explore the $2.99 EPUB edition sold directly by WinMedia.

6 new editions across 5 books.

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Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

Structured Resolution-Oriented Writing

The Transmission Layer of Mandala Intelligence

The transmission capstone and closing volume of the Foundations of Mandala Intelligence series. SROW is a governed method for rendering and transmitting complex structured meaning at multiple resolutions without flattening decisive structure.

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    Hardcover available · reported in the week ending November 12, 2026

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Human and Participatory Intelligence

Human Orientation

Governing Attention, Forming Meaning, and Ordering Value in the Age of AI

A book about governing attention, forming meaning, and ordering value so that increased information and AI capability do not substitute for human direction and responsibility.

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    Paperback available · reported in the week ending November 12, 2026

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    Hardcover available · reported in the week ending November 12, 2026

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Structures of Governed Intelligence

Mandala of Intent

An inquiry into how purpose travels through instructions, delegation, measures, and revision, and where it can disappear along the way.

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    Paperback available · reported in the week ending November 12, 2026

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Standalone publication

Who Made This?

Authorship, Credit, and Creative Work with AI

A practical guide to describing your contribution, crediting collaborators, and disclosing AI use in creative work.

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    Kindle eBook available · reported in the week ending November 12, 2026

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Standalone publication

Stealing Intelligence

How AI Capabilities Are Copied—and What That Changes

A guide to how AI capabilities are copied, how to evaluate the evidence, and what copying means for permission, competition, and privacy.

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    Kindle eBook available · reported in the week ending November 12, 2026

More new releases

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Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

The Mandala Protocol

A Five-Layer Architecture for Structured Meaning, Learning, Transformation, and Governed Intelligence

The Mandala Protocol defines a five-layer architecture for structured meaning, learning, transformation, and governed intelligence. It establishes the core pattern through which mandalas are formed, communicated, extended, and applied across human and AI-facing systems.

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  • Hardcover

    Hardcover available · reported in the week ending November 4, 2026

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Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

Big Net

The Relationship Topology of Governed Intelligence: How Structured Knowledge Systems Connect Without Losing Meaning

Big Net defines the relationship topology of governed intelligence: how structured knowledge systems connect without losing meaning. It explains how systems can connect across domains, objects, agents, and interpretive contexts without flattening meaning, losing provenance, or dissolving governance boundaries.

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  • Hardcover

    Hardcover available · reported in the week ending November 4, 2026

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Structures of Governed Intelligence

Mandala of Recovery

Containing Failure, Restoring Coherence, and Resuming Responsibly

An account of containing failure, restoring coherence, and deciding how work can resume responsibly after disruption.

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    Paperback available · reported in the week ending November 4, 2026

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Structures of Governed Intelligence

Mandala of Gating

A guide to deciding whether an output or proposed action may proceed, using evidence, explicit conditions, and assigned authority.

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  • Kindle eBook

    Kindle eBook available · reported in the week ending November 4, 2026

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Standalone publication

The Book an AI Can Use

From Reading Information to Performing Reliable Work

A practical account of how machine-readable instructions become bounded operations whose results, failures, and limits can be inspected.

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    Kindle eBook available · reported in the week ending October 29, 2026

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    Paperback available · reported in the week ending November 4, 2026

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Standalone publication

The Intelligence Casebook

Twenty Problems in Evidence, Judgment, Meaning, and Responsible Action

Twenty fictional cases for practicing how to weigh evidence, interpret a situation, and recommend a responsible next step.

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  • Kindle eBook

    Kindle eBook available · reported in the week ending November 4, 2026

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Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

The Sanskrit Mandala Model

A Layered Architecture for Interpretable and Aligned AI

The Sanskrit Mandala Model presents a layered architecture for interpretable and aligned AI, drawing from Sanskritic systems of grammar, semantic structure, logic, hermeneutics, ontology, and bhakti/rasa alignment. It frames intelligence as structured, inspectable, and governable rather than flat or opaque.

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  • Hardcover

    Hardcover available · reported in the week ending November 2, 2026

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Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

Universal Knowledge Mandala

A Layered Architecture for Structured Knowledge, Governed Intelligence, and Responsible AI Participation

Universal Knowledge Mandala presents a domain-neutral architecture for structured intelligence. It translates mandala-based cognition into a secular, interoperable model for organizing knowledge, preserving conceptual structure, and supporting interpretable reasoning across human and AI contexts.

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  • Hardcover

    Hardcover available · reported in the week ending October 29, 2026

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Structures of Governed Intelligence

Mandala of Evaluation

Judging Adequacy, Risk, and Readiness in Intelligent Systems

A structured account of judging whether an intelligent system is adequate for its intended purpose, what risks remain, and what evidence supports readiness.

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    Kindle eBook available · reported in the week ending October 29, 2026

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Standalone publication

When AI Gets It Wrong

Containing Mistakes, Repairing the Work, and Deciding When to Continue

A practical inquiry into containing AI mistakes, repairing affected work, and deciding when to continue.

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    Paperback available · reported in the week ending October 29, 2026

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Standalone publication

When AI Solves the Wrong Problem

Recognizing Goal Drift Before Good Work Goes in the Wrong Direction

A practical inquiry into recognizing goal drift when accurate, completed work no longer serves the purpose that justified it.

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    Paperback available · reported in the week ending October 29, 2026

Earlier Kindle publications

The 2024 Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals books remain available as legacy editions.

September 14–23, 2026

Ten new books

Explore the ten books published during this release period, including independent works and new books in three publication series or lines.

Earlier release

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Domain Mandalas

The Learning Mandala

A Governed Architecture for Learning, Navigation, and Transfer

A governed architecture for learning, navigation, and transfer: moving through structured knowledge across perspectives and resolutions while verifying understanding.

Open series

Domain Mandalas

An open series of independently readable books that explore individual domains through structured relational maps. Released books include The Computer Programming Mandala, The Learning Mandala, and The Mandala of Music.

Released publication

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Structures of Governed Intelligence — Volume 1

Cognitive Data Structures

Cognitive Data Structures establishes the semantic substrate of governed intelligence: making governance-relevant distinctions explicitly addressable and preserving meaning across transformations.

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Standalone — Bridge publication

Devotional Intelligence

The Disciplined Union of Cognition, Value, Humility, and Service

Devotional Intelligence examines the structure of intelligence in service of something beyond itself — disciplined inquiry into how attention, judgment, and capability can be organized around what is genuinely worth serving.

Series complete

Complete — Four Volumes · 4 of 4 volumes released

Human and Participatory Intelligence

A four-book movement from person to field, participation, and legitimate order.

The completed four-volume sequence moves from personal orientation through cognitive ecology and conscious participation to constitutional governance — establishing how human direction remains legitimate as capable systems multiply.

Book 1

Human Orientation

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Book 2

Cognitive Ecology

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Book 3

Architecture of Conscious Participation

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Book 4

Cognitive Constitution

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Book Series

Start with the architecture of a sequence

All book series

Active four-volume series · 3 of 4 volumes released

Ever-Expanding Conceptions of God

A four-volume inquiry into expanding conceptions of God, ultimacy, relationship, and value.

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Complete — Four Volumes · 4 of 4 volumes released

Human and Participatory Intelligence

A four-book movement from person to field, participation, and legitimate order.

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Complete six-volume series · 6 of 6 volumes released

Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

A six-volume architecture for structured, interpretable, governed intelligence.

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Theological inquiry

Active four-volume series · 3 of 4 volumes released

Ever-Expanding Conceptions of God

A four-volume inquiry into expanding conceptions of God, ultimacy, relationship, and value.

The series considers conceptions of God, transcendence and immanence, personhood and consciousness, devotional relationship, and the value questions of love, justice, beauty, and service.

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Series

Foundations of Mandala Intelligence

Foundations of Mandala Intelligence is a six-volume sequence that moves from the architecture of intelligence, through domain-neutral knowledge and common protocol, into governed relationships and integrated meta-architecture, and concludes with the transmission of structured meaning.

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Book 2

Universal Knowledge Mandala

A Layered Architecture for Structured Knowledge, Governed Intelligence, and Responsible AI Participation

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Book 3

The Mandala Protocol

A Five-Layer Architecture for Structured Meaning, Learning, Transformation, and Governed Intelligence

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Book 4

Big Net

The Relationship Topology of Governed Intelligence: How Structured Knowledge Systems Connect Without Losing Meaning

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Related book records

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The Mandala Protocol

A Five-Layer Architecture for Structured Meaning, Learning, Transformation, and Governed Intelligence

The Mandala Protocol defines a five-layer architecture for structured meaning, learning, transformation, and governed intelligence. It establishes the core pattern through which mandalas are formed, communicated, extended, and applied across human and AI-facing systems.

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Available

Universal Knowledge Mandala

A Layered Architecture for Structured Knowledge, Governed Intelligence, and Responsible AI Participation

Universal Knowledge Mandala presents a domain-neutral architecture for structured intelligence. It translates mandala-based cognition into a secular, interoperable model for organizing knowledge, preserving conceptual structure, and supporting interpretable reasoning across human and AI contexts.

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Available

The Ever-Expanding Conceptions of God — Volume 1

The opening volume in a public book series about how people name, understand, and approach the divine.

A clear first volume for readers who want the opening book and a direct path to Amazon.

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Forthcoming

The Comedy Compendium: 111 Techniques

A forthcoming field guide to comic technique, timing, and practical craft.

A forthcoming craft release positioned as a practical field guide rather than a promise of guaranteed funniness.

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Digital Products & Shop

Machine Editions & Shop

Explore structured, machine-readable editions and digital products in the WinMedia Shop, including the newly released Mandala Protocol Machine Edition and the SROW Developer Preview.