About the Author
💠 Author & Origin
Lumenoid was created by Doby Baxter as a personal, technical, and ethical exploration of AI system design, grounded in systems thinking, psychology, and human-centered engineering.
💠 Lived Experience as Structural Insight
The framework is informed by Doby’s lived experience as a neurodivergent person navigating complex institutional systems, including healthcare, clinical models, and bureaucratic infrastructures.
These environments often rely on authority-heavy structures, opaque decision-making, and assumptions of compliance that can quietly erode human agency while presenting themselves as care or protection.
💠 Observed Patterns Across Scale
Through this lens, recurring patterns became visible:
- Uncertainty hidden rather than acknowledged
- Responsibility displaced upward or outward
- Systems optimizing for procedure over understanding
These patterns, long studied at the individual and institutional level, consistently reappear when systems grow more complex.
💠 Systemic Dysfunction, Accountability, and Enforceability
In multiple regulated domains, including healthcare, employment, and public administration, persistent systemic dysfunction is frequently characterized as operational complexity rather than as a design condition. In practice, prolonged ambiguity, delayed resolution, and distributed decision-making materially impair the ability of affected individuals to exercise rights, access remedies, or meet evidentiary thresholds required for enforcement.
Where responsibility is fragmented across institutional layers, accountability becomes procedurally diluted. Harm may be demonstrable in aggregate, yet remain legally non-attributable to any single decision-maker. This structure preserves formal compliance while inhibiting effective oversight, corrective action, and liability assignment.
These dynamics are examined in the NeuroLight analyses “Neurodiversity and Burnout: The Real Catch-22” and “When Solutions Are Banned: Institutional Dysfunction as a Control Pattern” , which document how individuals are required to demonstrate functional impairment to access statutory protections, while institutional processes simultaneously impose conditions that erode the capacity necessary to satisfy those requirements. Absent clear attribution of responsibility and transparent system behavior, legal protections risk remaining formally recognized yet practically unenforceable.
💠 From Institutions to Artificial Intelligence
Lumenoid extends these observations beyond healthcare and clinical contexts into artificial intelligence. It examines how the same structural risks—loss of agency, obscured accountability, and dependency framed as care—can emerge when intelligence scales without clear boundaries.
💠 Design Position
The framework approaches artificial intelligence not as an autonomous actor, but as a human-engineered system whose ethical failures arise from missing constraints, weak validation, and blurred responsibility.
Rather than treating care, accessibility, or support as features, Lumenoid treats them as structural design obligations that must never replace human judgment or ownership.
💠 Scope & Intent
Lumenoid is not presented as a product or a promise. It is a framework for making responsibility, uncertainty, and agency preservation structural rather than assumed.
It is intentionally skeletal and non-identifying, designed to support many forms of intelligence without prescribing identity, values, or outcomes. The framework is adaptable across cultures, legal systems, and institutions while keeping its ethical invariants explicit and inspectable.
💠 Stewardship
Doby maintains the reference versions and core principles of Lumenoid. Organizations and individuals may adapt the framework for their own contexts; responsibility for deployment, governance, and compliance remains with those who implement and operate it.
💠 Ongoing Work
Lumenoid is an ongoing exploration. Its structures and tests are expected to deepen over time—not to increase authority, but to strengthen the conditions under which reasoning remains meaningful, uncertainty remains visible, and human autonomy remains intact.
💠 Links
Other projects and contact points:
https://linktr.ee/dobybaxter127