Future Research
This page documents open, long-horizon questions rather than settled conclusions.
One long-horizon question that continues to surface in this work is whether aspects of physical movement can be proxied rather than directly performed. This is not about shortcuts, but understanding the impact of movement at different levels of the human system and if these impacts can be quantified digitally, and transferred.
System Decomposition
Physical training appears to act across multiple layers simultaneously:
- mechanical stress and adaptation
- neural patterning and coordination
- metabolic signaling
- psychological effort and discipline
- identity formation through repeated action
What remains unclear is which of these effects are inseparable from movement itself, and which may be representable, simulatable, or partially transferable through other systems.
This opens a broader line of inquiry:
Can the outcomes of movement be “bought” without buying the movement itself — and if so, what is lost, distorted, or ethically compromised in the process?