The Physics of Language: What Words Actually Are
Language is lossy compression. Words are pointers. Comprehension is reconstruction.
EMDR Decoded: The Universal Structure of Adaptive Change
82 stages of inference. Seven core principles. What healing, learning, and growth have in common.
What Exactly Is Complexity?
Complicated vs. complex. Non-decomposability, correlation structure, computational depth.
How Does Self-Organization Happen?
Six necessary conditions: open system, far-from-equilibrium, feedback, interaction, differential persistence.
What Is Emergence?
When do wholes get properties their parts don't have? Phase transitions, thresholds, correlation.
What Is Causation?
Regularity, information flow, or mechanism? A decode from first principles.
Why Does Time Have a Direction?
Physics equations work both ways. Experience and entropy only go one way. Why?
The Hard Problem: Dissolved?
Processing and experience as the same phenomenon under two descriptions.
Consciousness and Correlation
Four inference paths converge: consciousness as high correlation state of a self-modeling system.
What Does Free Will Mean (If Anything)?
Libertarian incoherent. Compatibilism captures the useful parts. We have enough for responsibility.
Why Do Qualia Differ?
Why does red feel like red? Correlation-pattern hypothesis from GAPS decode.
Human Alignment Precedes AI Alignment
We're asking AI to achieve what humans haven't. Responsibility as first-layer.
What Grounds Value?
Why does anything matter? Value as the valence dimension of conscious experience.
The Corruption Stack
Academia, media, healthcare, government—the same pattern. Selection, training, ideology, guild.
How Do We Calculate Emergence Thresholds?
Universality classes, topology, correlation measures—what determines when emergence occurs?
How Does Perception Relate to Reality?
Perception as inference, not direct access. We access fit, not the thing-in-itself.
Market Dynamics and Economic Emergence
Prices emerge. Markets as self-organization—same structure as crystals, flocks, life.
How LLMs Inherit Corruption
Corruption flows downstream. Each layer of the AI pipeline selects for something other than truth.