Essays from the seam between mind and brain.

Longer pieces of writing, hedged carefully, intended to be read rather than skimmed. Each essay holds two languages — neuroscience and depth psychology — in parallel, without collapsing one into the other.

1. 01

   The hippocampus and the act of remembering

   Memory is not stored and retrieved. It is reconstructed, and the reconstruction reshapes the trace. Both neuroscience and depth psychology converge on this. The cost is real.

   1,450 words · 9 min · 2026-05-13
2. 02

   What the brain knows before you do

   Motor cortex commits to decisions hundreds of milliseconds before subjects report deciding. Jung said the unconscious is ahead of consciousness in many domains. The findings touch; the conclusions do not collapse into each other.

   1,500 words · 9 min · 2026-05-13
3. 03

   Sound and the salience network

   Why particular pieces of music seem to arrive with weight — auditory cortex, default-mode involvement, and what Jung called the numinous.

   1,400 words · 8 min · Forthcoming