Writing
Public writing on consciousness science for non-academic audiences.
The Last Science
I write a Substack called The Last Science where I explain the ideas behind the State Space Theory of consciousness for a general audience. The academic papers are written for philosophers and neuroscientists. The Substack is written for anyone who has wondered what consciousness is and why it is so hard to explain.
The series walks through SST from first principles: the reconstruction problem, delay coordinate embedding, why consciousness is a process rather than a state, hierarchical organization, the unfolding argument, and what all of this means for artificial intelligence.
Recent Posts
Do Or Do Not. There Is No Be. (April 3, 2026) — Problems within Integrated Information Theory’s mathematical framework.
The Best Objection (And Why It Fails) (March 28, 2026) — The unfolding argument against recurrence-based theories of consciousness.
The Hierarchy and the Apex (March 20, 2026) — Hierarchical organization and self-referential processing.
Consciousness Is a Verb (March 16, 2026) — Why consciousness is a process, not a state.
The Trick the Brain Already Knows (March 10, 2026) — Delay coordinate embedding as the brain’s reconstruction mechanism.
The Reconstruction Problem (March 9, 2026) — How do neurons create conscious experience? Part 1 of the series.
Too Alive to Be a Basilisk (March 4, 2026) — What SST says about Roko’s Basilisk and machine consciousness.