Notes
Short observations, distinctions, and research questions. A notebook rather than a news feed.
A choice without an alternative
The experience of considering several actions can be real even if only one future is actual. The remaining dispute concerns what freedom requires.
A life in spacetime
A worldline places events in a temporal geometry. It helps us think beyond an isolated present without supplying a theory of the observer.
Inquiry and evidential support
The distinct obligations involved in investigating a report, evaluating an explanation, and drawing a conclusion.
An explanation has a boundary
A practical way to notice when a successful model is being asked to answer a different question.
Chance and the existing future
Unpredictability, indeterminism, and an unwritten future are separate claims. Quantum uncertainty does not settle the ontology of time by itself.
Clocks and lived duration
Relativistic time dilation makes elapsed time depend on a path through spacetime. It challenges a universal clock without proving an ontology.
Measurement without a mind
Environmental interactions can suppress quantum interference without anyone watching. That changes what quantum measurement can establish about consciousness.
What neural intervention shows
Altering brain activity can alter a specific experience. That establishes a causal role for neural processes while leaving the ultimate nature of experience disputed.
When the body feels like ours
Bodily ownership is part of experience and can be experimentally altered. Its construction helps explain embodiment while leaving the nature of the experiencing subject open.
Why the arrow needs an explanation
Temporal order and the thermodynamic arrow answer different questions. A complete history can contain a direction without requiring a moving present.