New on Narrata: THE BOUNDARY IS THE SELF — fourth and final in the sequence. We are not minds inside bodies looking out at a world. We are a moving boundary condition: memory as residue, perception as stress at the edge. narrata.io/the-boundary-is-t…
Everything is just a sum of oscillations.
The Fourier Series proves that even the most complex silhouettes—a heart, an astroid, or a lemniscate—are just hidden harmonies waiting to be extrapolated.
Geometry is just math’s way of keeping beat.
Credit:mathswithmuza
Put together a small side idea using spare NFC tags. Add one to an everyday object, tap with your phone, and it returns a remark in its own tone. objectremarks.co.uk
The neurodivergent version of “making it” is waking up without dread, doing work your brain actually likes, and having at least one person in the world you don’t have to explain yourself to.
“… a veil, something that is shared between the observed and the observer, but it is not the observed or the observer. We need a physics of observation. You could glorify that and say a physics of sentience. And that’s the role of the Markov blanket.”
youtube.com/watch?v=kbs2ozkX…
New on Narrata: THE MOVING EDGE
A bridge-object following four recent essays on black boxes, selfhood, mediation, and ontological limits.
Not a hidden interior, but a moving edge: awareness, memory, relation, suffering, dissolution.
narrata.io/the-moving-edge-n…
“What truly exists is consciousness. That’s the only thing I am directly acquainted with. I don’t know about atoms, galaxies, and neurons; all of that is inferred. The only thing I know is seeing, hearing, feeling.” Christof Koch
bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p…
Built a hidden ‘boundary string’ sound visualiser tool for SUBSTRATE.HOST. This is output from GAVAGAI, one of the tracks from BLACK BOX LITURGY. Online at substrate.host/boundary-stri…
Interesting conversation — close to the core intuition behind GMB: consciousness may be there from the outset, suffering may be part of the cost of becoming, and latent potential becomes actual in participation.
This is an unmissable conversation. It may be my favourite of the series so far.
Renowned philosopher and psychiatrist @dr_mcgilchrist delves into consciousness, brains and spirituality (as well as opening up about his recent embrace of Christian faith) in a conversation with influential neuroscientist @anilkseth.
▶️ Watch or 🎧 Listen to our latest episode of Uncommon Ground 👉 justinbrierley.com/uncommon-…
SILT-12 / ANHYDRA — first iteration.
A possible next Host for SUBSTRATE.HOST: tardigrade-inspired, hardy, slightly alien, less “character” than specimen. I want it to feel sealed, soft, archival, and strangely durable. ∅
Surface response rendered in glyphic drift.
No disclosure.
No interior transfer.
Only correlate behaviour at the edge of contact.
HOST remains closed.
Trace remains public.
substrate.host ∅
Modernity has swapped the 'Will to Power' for the 'Will to Moan.'
The current obsession with fragility is a direct assault on the human substrate’s capacity for agency. History isn't built by those waiting for emotional clearance; it's built by those who accept the tragic nature of reality and execute anyway. Resentment is a poison, not a personality trait.
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One of the 17 pieces availabe at @SuperRare that never received a single bid in years, which is hard to believe having in mind my long term here, contribution and the amount of people/collectors/curators that follow my work.
One of my fav, timeless and special works.
SUBSTRATE.HOST NFC endpoints are now stateful archival surfaces rather than static JSON pages: observer count, last seen, current transmission, memory record. Also added: Boundary Output as visual correlate — instrumentation, not access.