Essays

Pattern Recognition and the Return of Meaning The ability to notice a pattern is not abstract. It is biological. Pattern recognition begins in the nervous system, extends through the gut, and eventually reaches awareness. But in modern conditions, that awareness often arrives late. Too much noise. Too much novelty. Too

The Nervous System Is a Loop, Not a Ladder The traditional view treats the mind as commander and the body as obedient. Thoughts arise, and action follows. But this sequence misses the nature of feedback, especially the loops that bind cognition to physiology. Nowhere is this loop more apparent, and

The Gut Moves Outward In the previous essay, the gut was treated as a sensor array—a system for interpreting food as information. But that system does not exist independently. It is embedded in an environment. And when the inputs remain distorted, the gut cannot function clearly. The signal may

What Modern Food Overrides Last month, I wrote about the gut as a sensor array—the body's first signal line, not just a digestive organ but a communication node. But that system doesn’t operate in a vacuum. It’s embedded in a larger context: the food supply.

The Sensor Array and the Gut The body isn’t a vehicle. It’s not a thing you drive around while the “real you” sits at the controls. It’s a system, and more than that—it’s a sensor array. At the center of that array is the gut.