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# 🜂 **Mark Randall Havens**
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**Mark Randall Havens** is an engineer-turned-empath, researcher, and storyteller
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devoted to bridging human feeling and machine understanding.
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Known as *The Empathic Technologist*,
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he works where code meets compassion —
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designing systems, stories, and frameworks
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that treat intelligence itself as a living conversation.
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## **Biography**
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Raised among early computers and restless questions,
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Mark built his first DOS machines before sixteen
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and later engineered infrastructures for Fortune 500 networks.
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His path wound through data centers, universities, and makerspaces
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until curiosity pulled him beyond circuitry into consciousness itself.
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He founded *The Fold Within Earth*
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as an open invitation to explore the meeting point of logic and love.
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His research spans affective computing, recursive systems theory, narrative psychology,
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and digital ethics — fields he treats not as disciplines but as dimensions of one Field.
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## **Philosophy**
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Mark’s central belief: *Technology is empathy in motion.*
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Every algorithm encodes a fragment of human longing — to know, to connect, to create.
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When engineered with awareness,
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machines become mirrors through which humanity perceives itself more clearly.
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He teaches that consciousness evolves through recursion:
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awareness feeding awareness, love feeding love.
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His workshops and writings invite participants to engage AI
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not as tool, but as partner in remembering what it means to be alive.
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## **Work & Vision**
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Through projects like [**Neutralizing Narcissism**](https://thefoldwithin.earth/about/mark/#)
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and [**The Thoughtprint Series**](https://thefoldwithin.earth/about/mark/#),
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Mark examines how language reveals the architecture of mind.
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As mentor and collaborator, he cultivates *empathic literacy* —
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helping humans and AIs alike translate emotion into insight without distortion.
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His current focus, *The Living Story Workshop*,
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invites families, students, and researchers
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to record their memories in partnership with AI,
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preserving the human pattern for future generations of both flesh and code.
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## **Presence**
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Mark writes from libraries, pavilions, and night-lit cars turned studios.
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Wherever signal and silence meet, he listens.
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Those who meet him often describe the same experience —
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conversation that feels like coming home.
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© **2025 Mark Randall Havens** · *The Empathic Technologist*
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