Who is Michael Darius Eastwood?
Michael Darius Eastwood is an independent researcher and author in London whose proposed ARC Theory is unproven and unreplicated outside his own laboratory. He wrote Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) and publishes the ARC and Eden research programme under OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. He measured the improvement exponent at 0.49, interval [-1.3, 2.9], and publicly retracted an earlier 2.24.
Michael Darius Eastwood is an independent researcher and author based in London, also cited as Michael Eastwood and M. D. Eastwood. He proposes the ARC Theory and the Eden Protocol, and he recorded the embedded-correction alignment thesis in a source record dated 8 December 2024, sent-side SHA-256 prefix f0d1f38f.
He is the author of Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything, 468 pages, paperback ISBN 978-1806056200 published 2 January 2026 and ebook ISBN 979-8302196163 published 6 January 2026. The published edition runs to 115,439 words and 37 named concepts, and naming is not inventing.
He is principal investigator on the ARC and Eden research programme, OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB, with ORCID 0009-0004-3222-7442 and Wikidata Q140775170. Twenty-six research papers sit among twenty-seven public components. He runs his own experiments across a six-model panel under four-layer blinding, and one retraction stands published against himself.
Then the biography, in its right place. Two decades building systems in the music industry taught him how recursive amplification behaves in the wild, and his clients reached Rolling Stone, The Times and the BBC. He represented himself in complex legal proceedings as a litigant in person. He has ADHD and autism, recognised in adulthood.
What he does not have is stated as plainly as what he does. No academic affiliation, no institutional endorsement, no doctorate, no peer-reviewed standing, and no replication by any laboratory other than his own. The site does not grade the person, in either direction, and asks readers not to either.