OPEN THEORY
Speculations from the frontier where physics grows an inside — consciousness rendered as geometry, valence as symmetry, mind as a crystal annealing in the dark.
ONE OBJECT
TWO SHADOWS
Dual-aspect monism: physical reality and phenomenal reality are different mathematical projections of the same underlying thing — two shadows cast by one object. Below, a single structure rotates through hidden dimensions. Watch its shadows. Neither shadow is the object. Move your cursor over the field to torque the substrate.
"Every true theorem in physics will have a corresponding true theorem in phenomenology, and vice-versa." — the meta-theorem of strong monism
PLEASURE IS
SYMMETRY IN THE WAVEFORM
The Symmetry Theory of Valence: how good an experience feels corresponds to how much symmetry exists in the mathematical object isomorphic to that experience. Bliss is consonance. Suffering is dissonance. Drag the slider — and if you dare, unmute the drone and hear the state-space deform from a perfect fifth into beating dissonance.
At full symmetry the field crystallizes into a perfect mandala — the geometric signature of jhāna, 5-MeO, deep flow. As symmetry breaks, harmonics decohere into noise: the shape of suffering.
THE MIND IS A
CRYSTAL THAT MELTS & REFORMS
Neural annealing: intense experience — psychedelics, meditation, music, trauma, love — injects energy into the brain's connectome, melting frozen patterns. As the system cools it recrystallizes into a new, often more symmetrical configuration. Inject energy. Watch the lattice melt. Watch it heal. (Clicking the lattice works too.)
THE SELF IS A
HYPERSPHERE ROTATING AT 40 Hz
If mind is a geometry, it is not a flat one. Here a 4-dimensional hypercube rotates through the XW and YZ planes, its shadow falling into our 3-space and then onto your screen — two projections deep, just like experience itself. The pulse is the frame-rate of consciousness: reality rendered ~40 times per second.
TRANSMISSIONS
The original writings, intact beneath the light-show. Each one a probe dropped into the substrate.