An argument for the fractal structure of consciousness
There is something. Something perceives. But what happens when the perceiver tries to perceive itself?
Writings
Some things can only be destroyed by naming them
Logos separates into parts. Eros unites into wholes. What is the cost of a name?
An exercise on the moral landscape
From an apple and its atoms to a right–wrong spectrum—and the drama hidden inside the trolley problem.
A phylogeny of scientific insight
From Mendel’s ratios to biological memory: a proposed course on the origins and history of hypotheses.
What does it mean to love your job?
Brushes and caves, swords and horses, words and books—all had personalities. A note on care and the unknown.
Why interaction maps need context
A molecular network is a starting point for a question, not a complete explanation of a cell.
What a Good Fit Can Tell Us
A model can describe a pattern remarkably well while leaving the process behind it unresolved.
The Many Worlds Behind the Same Data
Identifiability asks whether the evidence can distinguish the explanation we want from alternatives that look equally convincing.
Generalization Is a Test, Not a Promise
A model's behavior beyond familiar examples tells us more than its ability to reproduce them.
The Baseline Deserves a Seat
Simple comparisons reveal what a complicated model adds—and whether a benchmark can detect that addition.
Better Questions for Scientific AI
Progress depends on matching the model, the evidence, and the question—then seeking observations that could change the answer.
The genotype–phenotype problem has a combinatorial problem embedded within it
Every gene, transcript, and protein has evolved in the presence of others. Understanding the parts is only the beginning.
The interactome changes with its world
Two proteins can remain equally expressed while their relationship changes. A static map cannot tell us everything about a changing cell.
An assay has a point of view
A missing edge may be a biological absence, a sampling problem, or a limit of the instrument. These explanations require different experiments.
From static snapshots towards dynamic movies
A measurement can preserve the parts and still erase their order. The temporal resolution of an assay determines which cellular events become visible.
Delivery is a problem of place
A treatment needs an address. The ambition behind vGPS is a whole-body atlas that makes the question of where it goes easier to ask—and harder to evade.