Thinking
Thinking
Long-form thinking: essays worked out in public, an open question I keep returning to, and conversations with others in the field.
Open questions
Questions I'm trying to answer
- How do complex systems learn, adapt, and reorganise themselves?
- What governs how brains allocate limited resources like memory and attention?
- How does structure at one scale shape behaviour at another?
- Can the mathematics of physics illuminate how intelligent systems decide?
- What, if anything, unites learning in brains and in machines?
One question, revisited
A single deep question in the science of mind — my answer, and, in time, answers from others.
In dialogue
Long-form conversations with the researchers whose work shapes how I think.
Essays
The archive
-
Memory is not retrieval — it is inference
A short case for treating memory as a dynamical, subjective reconstruction rather than a stored recording read back on demand.
-
Why a physicist should care about how brains learn
Criticality, spin glasses, and renormalisation are not metaphors borrowed to sound rigorous — they are the natural language for a learning system.