Essays
Long-form writing from the observatory — investigations into how perception is being remade by intelligence, physics, and the technologies of attention.
- 0112 min read · Neuroscience
The Predictive Brain
Neuroscience increasingly suggests that perception is not a window onto the world but a controlled hallucination — a best guess refined by sensory evidence.
- 029 min read · AI & Perception
Artificial Eyes, Inhuman Sight
Machine vision systems already operate in spectra and resolutions inaccessible to biological observers. What might they teach us about the structure of seeing?
- 0314 min read · Virtual Reality
The Sensorium After Screens
Virtual and mixed reality are no longer entertainment platforms — they are slowly becoming sensory organs. We are still learning what that means.
- 0411 min read · Philosophy
Reality as We Are
Modern physics describes a universe vastly richer than what evolution equipped us to detect. Perception, then, is less a mirror than a filter.