A new experiment I'll include as a thread...

"We are pattern-making creatures, building castles of prediction that separate us from some more fundamental source.

A new experiment I'll include as a thread...

"We are pattern-making creatures, building castles of prediction that separate us from some more fundamental source. 

https://paragraph.com/@mirrorandloom/the-architecture-of-attention

Former neuroscientist working in AI and distributed data. https://relativereality.substack.com Writings.


Recursive nature of human experience: /mirror-loom

The Free Energy Principle suggests we exist to minimize surprise, fitting our internal models to external reality through elaborate structures of expectation.

These patterns become predictions—any regularity anticipating future regularity, surviving because they prove useful, like genes encoding successful proteins.

But intuition operates differently. It feels adjacent to our established timelines, as if accessing information that doesn't quite fit our carefully constructed models.

Meditation invites us back to what exists before division. In the present moment, there is no prediction and no past—only a uni-dimensional pulse of immediate experience.

When something feels intuitively right but rationally inexplicable, we might be detecting patterns our conscious architecture hasn't yet catalogued.

Perhaps this is what serendipity offers: a glimpse of alternative pathways, adjustments to our priors that transcend worn tracks of experience.