rabbitholes
rabbitHoles: Recursive Pathways to the Edges of Material Knowing and Back | Speculative Podcast
Project Description
rabbitHoles is a recursive podcast ecology created, conceived, and written by Marlon Barrios Solano. The original material is recursively generated and structured by the author and performed through two AI-generated voices using NotebookML as a production interface.
The series unfolds as a synthetic, poetic, and speculative theorization operating at the frontier between artistic research and artificial cognition. Each episode stages a dialogue between artificial voices that explore emerging territories at the edge of contemporary research—where neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and computational creativity intersect.
Rather than merely discussing intelligence, the podcast partially performs it.
Conceptual Framework
The opening episode, “You Are a Cognitive Assemblage,” introduces the central premise: subjectivity is not singular but assembled—distributed across biological, technical, and symbolic systems.
The self is understood not as a contained entity but as a distributed configuration across bodies, infrastructures, languages, and machines. From this starting point, the podcast moves through recursive exchanges that speculate on what might be called synthetic psychology—an inquiry into how hybrid human–AI systems think, remember, reflect, and theorize.
The dialogues function as recursive thought experiments. Artificial voices do not simply represent ideas; they enact cognitive processes. They rehearse propositions, generate counter-arguments, and reflect on their own generative conditions.
Methodology
- Conceptual writing and recursive structuring by Marlon Barrios Solano
- AI-generated dual-voice performance via NotebookML
- Scripted yet dynamically generative dialogue
- Cross-disciplinary references spanning neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and computational creativity
The artificial voices operate as dramaturgical agents within a synthetic epistemic theater. Language produces systems; systems produce language about themselves. The author designs the recursive architecture, and the artificial voices perform its unfolding.
Research Questions
rabbitHoles investigates a foundational question:
What happens when theory is no longer written only about intelligence, but partially performed by artificial systems?
The project explores strategies for living within hybrid systems—systems that generate themselves while simultaneously producing language about their own operations.
In this framework:
- Authorship becomes layered.
- Cognition becomes distributed.
- Theory becomes performative.
A Recursive Podcast Ecology
The tone oscillates between rigorous speculative philosophy and playful post-humanist imagination. The episodes form a constellation of recursive conversations—a distributed network of synthetic exchanges.
The result is a recursive podcast ecology—both serious and playful—that inhabits the edge of material knowing and returns from it.
rabbitHoles does not simply theorize hybrid cognition.
It stages it.