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Spirits and the incompleteness of physics

Spirits and the incompleteness of physics

Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory

Jun 20, 2025
Equations that demand beauty

Equations that demand beauty

The remarkable physics of constraints

Dec 02, 2025
God is NaN

God is NaN

How skepticism leads back to a God, pragmatist mysticism, and the nonsense of Bayesian metaphysics

May 09, 2025
Beauty as entropic fine-tuning

Beauty as entropic fine-tuning

Why beauty should be measured in bits, why conscious AI would experience beauty, and the evolutionary function of the aesthetic experience

All essays

The best books I read in 2025

The best books I read in 2025

Why had I not heard of the School of Chartres?

Jan 02, 2026
Equations that demand beauty

Equations that demand beauty

The remarkable physics of constraints

Dec 02, 2025
My holy text

My holy text

The most important book I've read in the last 10 years

Sep 01, 2025
Revising God

Revising God

The atheists, theists, and agnostics are wrong

Aug 03, 2025
Ornaments from first principles

Ornaments from first principles

Grand unified theories and their pleasures

Jul 22, 2025
Spirits and the incompleteness of physics

Spirits and the incompleteness of physics

Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory

Jun 20, 2025
God is NaN

God is NaN

How skepticism leads back to a God, pragmatist mysticism, and the nonsense of Bayesian metaphysics

May 09, 2025
I left academia yesterday

I left academia yesterday

Why I left

Feb 21, 2025
My favorite Norwegian painter

My favorite Norwegian painter

A tour of his gallery

Jan 22, 2025
How I make audioreactive art: an illustrated guide

How I make audioreactive art: an illustrated guide

How I make visual arts reacting to my music

Dec 30, 2024
Taste is like physics, porn, and grammar

Taste is like physics, porn, and grammar

Predictive processing explains objective beauty, aesthetic grammar and hedonic treadmills of beauty. Contra Scott Alexander, and elaborating on Zvi.

Dec 22, 2024
Sacrality in leather boots (short story)

Sacrality in leather boots (short story)

Durability and the weaving of meaning

Dec 15, 2024
Six lessons from producing electronic music

Six lessons from producing electronic music

The power of mutants, complexity-conservation, and art as perishable

Dec 08, 2024
Why I am here

Why I am here

Introducing Mechanics of Aesthetics and the obsessive pursuit of an aesthetic

Nov 27, 2024
Against expressing yourself in art

Against expressing yourself in art

A rant

Oct 15, 2024

Cathedral yearning

I finished a piece of music paired with audio-reactive visual art

Sep 18, 2024
Untangling meaning, mystery, and beauty

Untangling meaning, mystery, and beauty

Are beauty and meaning two sides of the same coin?

Sep 12, 2024
Today's nugget

Today's nugget

A brain scan of the collective artistic consciousness

Aug 21, 2024
Beauty opioids

Beauty opioids

Attempts at addictive visual arts

Aug 14, 2024
N-beauty

N-beauty

A natural family of objective beauty measures does exist

Jul 23, 2024
Beauty as entropic fine-tuning

Beauty as entropic fine-tuning

Why beauty should be measured in bits, why conscious AI would experience beauty, and the evolutionary function of the aesthetic experience