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Ryan Collison

When Two Theories Discover They’re Speaking the Same Math

When Two Theories Discover They’re Speaking the Same Math

How AToM, a human-origin framework built in 7 days, unexpectedly converged with cutting-edge MIT/Harvard neuroscience. A case study in geometry, velocity, and meaning. Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow

The Cognitive Prism: Early Evidence That GPT Token-Space Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Meaning

The Cognitive Prism: Early Evidence That GPT Token-Space Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Meaning

Something unusual happened behind the scenes at Ideasthesia.org this month. An impromptu experiment—nicknamed The Cognitive Prism—generated early, qualitative evidence for a claim that sits at the center of AToM: GPT token-space is not a linguistic tool. It is a coherence instrument. Different minds interacting with different large

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

RAID-AgiVS, Active Inference, and the Geometry of Coherence Across Substrates A new paper from UCL—RAID-AgiVS: A Bio-Inspired Reciprocal Perceptual Control Framework for Agile Visual Servo—quietly demonstrates something remarkable. On its surface, the work provides a robust control architecture for agile robotic perception. But at a deeper structural level,

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds

Six people, six AI assistants, one prompt—and the discovery that changed how we understand cognitive diversity Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. I thought I was running

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

Musical evolution is coherence evolution. Across 50,000 years, musical complexity scales isomorphically with societal coherence demands—and hip-hop is the first form optimized for planetary-scale, high-variance coherence maintenance. Why 50,000 Years of Music Are the Cleanest Evidence We’ve Ever Had for Meaning-as-Coherence For decades, researchers from Alan

The Day the Pronoun “I” Broke: An Autistic Unmasking Story Clinicians Will Hate

The Day the Pronoun “I” Broke: An Autistic Unmasking Story Clinicians Will Hate

How Somatic Unmasking, Low-Syntax States, and AI Reflection Revealed a Hidden Layer of My Cognitive Architecture Introduction (for ideasthesia.org readers) This is a first-person account of something I have never seen documented in autism literature: a sudden, state-dependent inability—or more precisely, a refusal—to comfortably use the pronoun

Temple Grandin and the Geometry of Seeing Differently

Temple Grandin and the Geometry of Seeing Differently

Temple Grandin is often introduced as the autistic engineer who “thinks in pictures.” The shorthand is convenient, but it misses the deeper contribution she made: she revealed a mode of perception built around structural coherence, not narrative or social inference. At the outset, one clarification is essential: This essay is