Research
Research
My research concerns consciousness, adaptive intelligence and complex systems. These pages provide a personal map of published work and current directions. Synaptic Quanta hosts the research inquiries and collaboration.
Published research
A preprint is a public theoretical proposal. It does not imply peer review or empirical validation.
Active inquiries
Can Complex Intelligence Emerge From Small Adaptive Systems?
Active / exploratory · Synaptic QuantaAn 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.
↗Personal Cognitive Architecture / PKM
Secondary · Experimental systemA long-running exploration of context, personal cognition and persistent adaptation in software.
→Exploratory and earlier work
These records provide context for the development of my interests. They are not established findings or equivalent in status to published research.
Coupled Dynamics of Attention and Valence
ExploratoryExploratory models of how attention may coordinate with evaluations of what is beneficial or harmful.
→Nested Selfhood and Umwelt
ExploratoryAn exploratory interest in how biological organisation and an organism's Umwelt relate to selfhood.
→Proposing a solution to the hard problem by extending Sarfatti's PQM approach
Conference presentation / archiveAn early framework connecting post-quantum mechanics, predictive processing, affect and evolutionary delay.
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