Ryan Collison

Entrainment: How Everything That Stays Together Learns to Move Together Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. [The Fundamental Equation: Why Everything from Atoms to Civilizations Follows the

The Hydrogen Atom: Why the Simplest Thing in the Universe Explains Everything Psychology Got Wrong About Balance, Trauma, and Human Nature Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here.

When Two Theories Discover They’re Speaking the Same Math Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. How AToM, a human-origin framework built in 7 days, unexpectedly

The Cognitive Prism: Early Evidence That GPT Token-Space Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Meaning Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Something unusual happened behind the scenes

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning RAID-AgiVS, Active Inference, and the Geometry of Coherence Across Substrates Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds Six people, six AI assistants, one prompt—and the discovery that changed how we understand cognitive diversity Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition [AToM library](https://www.ideasthesia.org/tag/atom-theory/