Foundations
The theoretical infrastructure.
Three frameworks make everything else on this site legible. Miss these and the rest looks like scattered observations. Get these and a unified picture snaps into focus.
The Free Energy Principle
Karl Friston's mathematical framework for why anything that persists must minimize surprise. Not a metaphor. An equation that predicts neural firing rates, explains action, and connects thermodynamics to cognition.
4E Cognition
Embodied, embedded, enacted, extended. The revolution in cognitive science that moved mind out of the skull and into body-environment loops.
Autopoiesis & Second-Order Cybernetics
Maturana, Varela, von Foerster. The intellectual roots of 4E cognition and the Free Energy Principle. What makes something alive? Self-production.
4E Cognition Extended
4E cognition describes where thinking happens but not when it fails. This series adds the missing stability dimension.
Information Geometry
Your beliefs live on a curved surface. Information geometry reveals why some changes are easy, others impossible, and why sensitivity varies.
Constructor Theory
What transformations are possible—and what makes you a reliable cause? Constructor theory reframes physics and mind.
The Physics of Space and Time
Hub page for spacetime physics series - what we know about the fabric of reality
The Laws of Thermodynamics
Hub page for thermodynamics series - the universe's operating system
The Gibbs Free Energy Equation
Hub page for Gibbs free energy series - the universe's decision function
The Physics of Space and Time
Hub page for spacetime physics series - what we know about the fabric of reality
The Laws of Thermodynamics
Hub page for thermodynamics series - the universe's operating system
The Gibbs Free Energy Equation
Hub page for Gibbs free energy series - the universe's decision function
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