AI and minds
Artificial cognition, consciousness, moral status, feedback, and alignment.
Writing
Essays across disciplines and scales
Public-facing work that moves between philosophical argument, scientific explanation, systems analysis, and experimental nonfiction.
Essay categories
Biology and molecular machinery
Mechanistic explanations, cellular systems, and the surprising intelligence of biological organization.
Scale and physics
What changes—and what survives—when explanations move across spatial, temporal, and conceptual scales.
Personhood and identity
Selfhood, dissociation, continuity, plurality, agency, and the ethics of how we count persons.
Institutions and social reasoning
Collective knowledge, governance, organizational failure, and better public thinking.
Life architecture and corpse-compatible goals
Building durable aims, tools, and commitments that remain meaningful beyond mood, moment, or lifespan.
Publishing note
This page is a route into current public writing. Older pieces and experiments will move into the archive as they are reviewed for public release.