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