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Editorials and field notes on intervention, nested causality, institutions, technology, and structural lift.

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Notes from the boundary.

2026-08-09

Research in Progress

A Continuum of Cognitive States

Causality and Attraction, Volume VII examines cognitive states, agency, attention, learning, state transitions, and the observer's capacity to return.

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2026-07-27

Field Note

A Volunteer to Exemplify the Problem

Anthony Fauci’s March 2020 diary provides a live example of the distinction between regulatory approval and accumulated human exposure in medical evidence and informed consent.

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2026-07-15

Field Note

Rather Than Looking for Work

Sid J.A. Hubbard on writing The Answers Were There All Along, testing its scale-boundary idea against a live quantum problem, and doing the work before looking for where it fits.

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