An architect's method applied to theory
Christian St-Louis is an architectural draftsman by trade. His approach to theoretical work mirrors his professional discipline: meticulous revision, cross-checking for errors, using multiple tools to verify that everything aligns.
Each major conceptual breakthrough followed the same pattern: a brief moment of intense frustration — the feeling of hitting an impassable wall — followed within minutes by an idea that opened a new path forward. The cycle of tension and resolution that the theory describes played out in the process of building it.
The work was refined across multiple AI systems, each catching what the others missed, the same way an architect sends plans through structural, mechanical, and electrical review. The result is a level of rigor that compensates for working outside the traditional academic pipeline.
Along the way, there were rejections. Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Human Behaviour, Research Square — each one a data point, not a dead end. The NRC-Fields Institute took interest through Dr. Sajjad Ghaemi. Dr. Tsé, who authored two books on the subject, offered support. The path was never straight, but it was always coherent.