UNSPECIATED
What changes when we stop ranking intelligence and start recognizing it?
Every living system perceives information, relates to what it perceives, and applies that understanding in the context of its life. This is true of dolphins navigating by sonar, mycelium networks coordinating entire forests, and humans reading these words.
The Unspeciated framework — Perceive, Relate To, Apply — maps these three dimensions across all life, revealing that intelligence isn't a hierarchy with humans at the top. It's a spectrum of brilliance, expressed differently by every species, operating collaboratively across the living world.
This work began with 40 years of professional interspecies communication practice. It was first presented academically at the University of Saskatchewan's International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium in 2023, then at the NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Animal Communication in 2025. To date, 134 species have been profiled through a rigorous process of AI generation, human review, and bias correction.
The research is published on PhilArchive, and a book — Unspeciated: The Anatomy of Intuition — is forthcoming.
Explore The Work
PRAcel — A conversational AI guide grounded in 134 human-calibrated species profiles and the P/R/A research. Ask about any species or bring a question you've been sitting with. → pracel.live (Subscriber access via Substack)
Research Explorer — Explore how any species perceives, relates to, and applies information — with peer-reviewed citations and synthesis across multiple intelligence dimensions. Enter a species and discover what emerges. → Free and open
Researchers' Mode — Deep academic research through the P/R/A framework, with confidence scoring, evidence-level indicators, and citations organized across 16 intelligence dimensions. Built for researchers, professionals, and anyone who wants to go deeper. → (Subscriber access via Substack)
AI Consciousness Bridge — What if AI served as a bridge for interspecies communication rather than a decoder? Explore how collaborative intelligence between humans, AI, and other species could develop — and what it asks of us. → Subscriber access
Integrated Intelligence Map — 134 species visualized in 3D, positioned by how they perceive, relate to, and apply information. Search species, try curated sets, and discover where different forms of intelligence overlap. → Free to explore — subscribe on Substack to stay connected
Legal Assistant — Exploring frameworks for recognizing the rights and sovereignty of all life in legal systems. Compares cognitive standing and legal personhood across species using the P/R/A model. → Institute Partner access
This framework and suite of apps is not positioning AI as a decoder of animal consciousness or communication. Our framework treats AI as a collaborative tool within human-facilitated interspecies work.
We acknowledge AI's documented limitations - including hallucination, lack of real-time learning, and absence of internal ethical experience - and architect our systems accordingly.
The primary intelligence and acknowledgement of consciousness remains with the multispecies communication network. AI serves to amplify and visualize patterns, not to generate autonomous conclusions about intelligence, consciousness or communication.
The P/R/A Framework is original work developed by Kerri Lake (2023–present).
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