Long-form writing.
Short breakdowns where physics meets plain language. One idea per essay, followed through.
Fluency on the cheap: epistemic hygiene in the LLM era
Before 2023, the price of a paragraph that read like expert analysis was paid in cognitive labour. Now it costs twenty dollars a month. What an author with a conscience left ought to do about it.
June 1, 2026·4 minLevin's hologram: what bioelectricity says to distributed systems
The Levin lab at Tufts shows that body-plan memory lives outside DNA. What follows from that if pointer architecture is right, and the experiment that would settle it.
- May 19, 2026·4 min
From SPARC to PII — falsifiers in research and in regulated AI
What a constrained galactic-rotation fit and a vendor security review have in common, and why the same epistemic discipline that built Pointer Architecture's reproducibility pipeline keeps showing up in the regulatory-immunity work I do at mikefluff.com.
May 3, 2026·5 minSuperposition as `while(true)`: quantum mechanics through an engineer's eyes
A generative loop in code gives a surprisingly precise intuition for wave function collapse and the delayed-choice quantum eraser. Where the metaphor stops and physics begins.
May 2, 2026·3 minAttention as load: what mass-observation experiments would mean if they hold up
PEAR and the Global Consciousness Project produced anomalies that are small, contested, and stubbornly non-zero. What they ought to mean if pointer architecture is right.
March 14, 2026·3 minA Loss Function for the Universe
Five independent anomalies, five different fields, one shape — and what it tells us to measure next.
April 9, 2025·3 minShifting the rhythm shifts what's available
No "simulation hack". But changing your neural state really does change what you see and respond to. Here is the mechanism.
March 4, 2025·3 minHow I arrived at Neural Cosmology
A short timeline: an AI engineer notices that five unrelated science news stories are saying the same thing in different words.
December 18, 2024·3 minNear-death experience: what neuroscience knows, and what it doesn't
NDE is a real phenomenon. The question is not whether it happens, but what exactly it tells us about the brain.
November 4, 2024·3 minTopology of mind: why Poincaré is a useful language for thought
The Poincaré conjecture, Perelman 2003, and the quiet suspicion that coherent thoughts behave like closed manifolds.
November 3, 2024·3 minQuantum consciousness: what is proven and what isn't
From EPR to the 2015 Delft experiment and back to Penrose's microtubules — an honest accounting of what we actually have.
November 1, 2024·3 minEcho of consciousness: time as a byproduct of information processing
It from bit, delayed-choice experiments, and an honest case for why time may be emergent.
October 19, 2024·3 minMagic and reality: where science agrees and where it doesn't
Magical thinking is a working model. Sometimes a real mechanism stands behind it, sometimes not. Here is how to tell.
September 4, 2024·3 minWhisper of stones: where consciousness ends
Panpsychism, IIT, Hoffman — three honest answers to the question of whether a stone can "feel" anything.
August 30, 2024·3 minMirrors: where the fractal is real, and where it is a coincidence
The 2020 Vazza–Feletti paper, fractal dimensionality, and the hard line between 'looks similar' and 'structure is identical'.
August 29, 2024·2 minBalance — not a state, but a regime
In esoterica, "balance of opposites" is abstract. In biology and control theory, it is a working mechanism.
August 15, 2024·2 minThe web: what "everything is connected" actually means
In conversation the phrase "everything is connected" means nothing. In science it means a lot, once you specify how.
August 7, 2024·3 minResonance: when the physics term, when the esoteric slogan
The brain synchronises. That's a fact. The question is: with what, at what frequency, and what follows.
August 6, 2024·3 minUnity and multiplicity: why it isn't a paradox
The individual and the connected are two characteristics of the same system, not opposites.
August 5, 2024·3 minNeural Cosmology as a working frame
An attempt to state a working frame for a set of data that won't fit the old one.
August 2, 2024·3 min"I am the universe": what the phrase means technically
If the universe is a neural network, then "I" is a node. The question is: node of what, and at what bandwidth.
July 28, 2024·2 minEntropic gravity and the neural universe
If gravity is emergent and the universe is a neural network, those two claims stop being independent.