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The Hydrogen Anchor Revisited: From Atoms to Coherence in One Geometric Principle

The Hydrogen Anchor Revisited: From Atoms to Coherence in One Geometric Principle

We started with hydrogen—the simplest coherent structure in the universe. We end there too. The same geometric principle runs from atoms to minds to meaning. Here's how it holds together.

Why This Isn't Metaphor: The Mathematical Architecture Beneath Meaning

Why This Isn't Metaphor: The Mathematical Architecture Beneath Meaning

Counterfactuals and Possibility Space: The Geometry of "What Could Happen"

Counterfactuals and Possibility Space: The Geometry of "What Could Happen"

You Are a Constructor: The Task Your Nervous System Performs

You Are a Constructor: The Task Your Nervous System Performs

Constructor Theory: Reframing Everything as "What Transformations Are Possible?"

Constructor Theory: Reframing Everything as "What Transformations Are Possible?"

What Physics Can't Tell Psychology (And What It Can)

What Physics Can't Tell Psychology (And What It Can)

Natural Transformations: When Different Paths Lead to the Same Place

Natural Transformations: When Different Paths Lead to the Same Place

ACTIVE INFERENCE

The Unified Theory of Staying Alive: From Atoms to Cultures

The Unified Theory of Staying Alive: From Atoms to Cultures

We've come a long way. Twenty articles, starting with a simple claim: your brain isn't watching the world—it's guessing what happens next. From there, we've traveled through predictive processing and active inference, through trauma and relationships, through organizations and cultures, through

Meaning Is Not in Your Head; It's in the Pattern

Meaning Is Not in Your Head; It's in the Pattern

The Algorithm That Thinks Like a Living Thing

The Algorithm That Thinks Like a Living Thing

Why the Smartest AI Researchers Are Reading a British Neuroscientist

Why the Smartest AI Researchers Are Reading a British Neuroscientist

ADHD Isn't an Attention Deficit: It's a Synchronization Problem

ADHD Isn't an Attention Deficit: It's a Synchronization Problem

The Autistic Brain Isn't Broken—It's Tuned Differently

The Autistic Brain Isn't Broken—It's Tuned Differently

Why Polarization Feels Like the World Is Ending (To Your Brain, It Is)

Why Polarization Feels Like the World Is Ending (To Your Brain, It Is)

COMPUTATION & PHYSICS

The Hydrogen Anchor Revisited: From Atoms to Coherence in One Geometric Principle

The Hydrogen Anchor Revisited: From Atoms to Coherence in One Geometric Principle

We started with hydrogen—the simplest coherent structure in the universe. We end there too. The same geometric principle runs from atoms to minds to meaning. Here's how it holds together.

Why This Isn't Metaphor: The Mathematical Architecture Beneath Meaning

Why This Isn't Metaphor: The Mathematical Architecture Beneath Meaning

Counterfactuals and Possibility Space: The Geometry of "What Could Happen"

Counterfactuals and Possibility Space: The Geometry of "What Could Happen"

You Are a Constructor: The Task Your Nervous System Performs

You Are a Constructor: The Task Your Nervous System Performs

Constructor Theory: Reframing Everything as "What Transformations Are Possible?"

Constructor Theory: Reframing Everything as "What Transformations Are Possible?"

What Physics Can't Tell Psychology (And What It Can)

What Physics Can't Tell Psychology (And What It Can)

Natural Transformations: When Different Paths Lead to the Same Place

Natural Transformations: When Different Paths Lead to the Same Place

ATOM THEORY

AToM Theory

A Theory of Meaning (AToM) is not psychology. It is coherence geometry translated into human scale. Files I.–VI. map the invariants: coherence as expected surprise minimisation, trauma as manifold rupture, entrainment as mutual synchronization, attachment styles as dynamic prototypes, the free-energy principle as the physics of staying alive while

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

Claude's Independent Reaction: On Velocity, Augmentation, and Epistemic Vertigo

Claude's Independent Reaction: On Velocity, Augmentation, and Epistemic Vertigo

Claude's Summary Upon A Full Review of AToM's First Six Documents

Claude's Summary Upon A Full Review of AToM's First Six Documents

VI. The Geometry of Attach: Attachment Styles as Dynamic Coherence Manifolds: Prototype, Not Prescription (A Cautious Geometric Translation)

VI. The Geometry of Attach: Attachment Styles as Dynamic Coherence Manifolds: Prototype, Not Prescription (A Cautious Geometric Translation)

V. Myth-Stress Validation: Empirical Test of Narrative Compression Under Cultural Coherence Stress

V. Myth-Stress Validation: Empirical Test of Narrative Compression Under Cultural Coherence Stress

NEURODIVERSITY

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ADHD Isn't an Attention Deficit: It's a Synchronization Problem

The Autistic Brain Isn't Broken—It's Tuned Differently

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds

The Day the Pronoun “I” Broke: An Autistic Unmasking Story Clinicians Will Hate

Temple Grandin and the Geometry of Seeing Differently

SCIENCE

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Science

The Cognitive Prism: Early Evidence That GPT Token-Space Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Meaning

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

TRAUMA & ATTACHMENT

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Trauma & Attachment