Living Intelligence Theory
An evolving independent research framework exploring relationships among experience, attention, interpretation, narrative, and behavior. Its proposals remain open to critical examination.
Founder · Independent Researcher · Systems Architect
Experience is a starting point for discovery.
I'm Kimberly McFarlane. I explore how lived experience, thoughtful inquiry, and responsible AI can help people transform what they know into knowledge, education, and opportunity.
Explore the VisionMeet Kimberly
The person behind the work
Working inside systems. Asking different questions.
My path across industries and lived experience led me to a question: What do people know that has never been systematically documented or investigated?
My work brings together years of practical experience, independent study, first-person documentation, and experimentation with emerging technologies. I am developing a research and learning ecosystem designed to connect everyday observation with disciplined inquiry.
“I am not a researcher who observes from a distance. I study systems by working inside them.”
My founder story is both a personal account and an invitation to examine how ideas take shape over time.
Selected research and development
Questions worth investigating.
Living Intelligence Literacy
Teaching people to notice, document, interpret, and evaluate experience—while distinguishing observations from inferences and evidence.
AI & Data Stewardship
Exploring practical ways people can organize personal archives, retain agency over their information, and use AI as an assistive rather than governing tool.
A proposed participatory institution
Connecting the people who study systems with the people who live and work inside them.
The Living Intelligence vision is reciprocal: practitioners, researchers, creators, and communities learn from one another, with appropriate safeguards and human oversight.
01 · EXPERIENCE
Notice & document
Records, professional practice, questions, and lived context.
02 · INQUIRY
Examine together
Collaborative methods, scholarship, and AI-assisted organization.
03 · DEVELOPMENT
Evaluate & create
Research questions, prototypes, curricula, and practical tools.
04 · APPLICATION
Learn & improve
Responsible use, feedback, and new questions for investigation.
↻ Feedback and new experience return to the inquiry process.
This is an institutional vision in development, not a claim of validated outcomes, accredited training, or established research partnerships.
Speaking · Teaching · Conversation
Ideas for a world learning to work with AI.
I speak about the questions at the intersection of human experience, technology, research, and agency.
Human agency & AI governanceYour lifetime of dataProvenance & documentationFrom experience to inquiryParticipatory researchThe founder's journey
Interested in a conversation, interview, or exploratory collaboration? Connect through my professional channels below.
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Explore the work. Follow the journey.
This website is a professional introduction. Each project has its own home and purpose.
FreedomQueen.org — personal story and creative journey
InsightSystems.org — research and systems development
Freedom in the Wild — discover the science-channel project on YouTube