The Living System
Essays and reviews on consciousness, complexity, and living systems. With a field guide to complex systems, and a few AI projects.
Latest writing
All writing →- Book review · October 2026 Review: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" by Thomas Nagel Reductionism and the subjective character of experience
- Book review · July 2026 Review: "Feeling and Knowing" by Antonio Damasio A neuroscientist's view on the hard problem of consciousness
- Essay · June 2026 Is the Hard Problem of Consciousness a Real Problem? An introduction to a series of reviews and essays on consciousness
Field guide
Open the field guide → Complex systems An introduction, twelve live models, a short history of the field, and a map of how it all connects. Fig. 1 Flocking. Three local rules (separation, alignment, cohesion) and no leader. One of the live models in the field guide.