Embodied Timing, Co-Semantic Stability, and the Limits of Predictive Control
My engagement with dance did not precede my work in computer science. It came after years of thinking in terms of formal systems, execution models, and computational control. This ordering matters. Social dance — particularly partner dance with explicit leading and following — exposed the limits of output-driven, predictive coordination in a way that abstract agent models could not. In social dance, stable coordination does not emerge from faster inference or earlier decision-making. It emerges from maintaining a shared temporal envelope — a co-semantic session — where neither party collapses the interaction into unilateral control. ...