Research

A theoretical proposal that valence provides provisional organism-relative priority when action is required before broader processing can resolve relevant uncertainty.

An experimental inquiry into whether networks of relatively small adaptive components can develop capabilities that do not exist in the individual components. I am interested in what composition can contribute to intelligence. No public technical results have been released yet.

A long-running exploration of context, personal cognition and persistent adaptation in software.

A theory of consciousness asking how organisms evaluate a situation when they must act before they can fully process it.

Exploratory models of how attention may coordinate with evaluations of what is beneficial or harmful.

An exploratory interest in how biological organisation and an organism's Umwelt relate to selfhood.

An early framework connecting post-quantum mechanics, predictive processing, affect and evolutionary delay.