Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 28, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
Accounts of consciousness routinely borrow vocabulary from physics — field, phase, coherence, superposition — and the borrowing carries an unpaid debt: a term imported from a discipline arrives with that discipline's warrant attached. This essay defends a compositional practice I call the seam, the requirement that a work mark, in its sentences, whether a given claim is formal, empirical, or...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 12, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
A reflection on duality, arguing that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of seeing whole corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. It draws on split-brain research and the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 12, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
A philosophy-of-mind reflection on duality. It argues that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of "seeing whole" corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
June 26, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
On Witnessing takes Andrew Wiles's indirect proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as a method for approaching the combination problem in the philosophy of mind. Borrowing the structure of the Frey–Ribet–Wiles route — a reduction, a bridge, and a theorem proved in a far domain — the essay reframes the question of how micro-perspectives combine into a single unified subject as a question about redundant...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 22, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
On Testing asks what it means to test the limits of being human — and quietly argues for stopping. It opens in "a deep purple" of depression, then turns the subjectivity of color (my purple may be your red) into a meditation on what we cannot share and what we do: the same blood, "the same electron super positioned in all of us," the dark that is "a feeling we share, not a color we see." Told...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
June 20, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
An essay on sleep as the separation of mind and body, written by someone who does not get much of it. It moves from a joke in a cartoon to the genetics of familial natural short sleep and the contemplative traditions that train the mind to stay awake while the body rests, and it is careful to say which of those the author is standing in — neither. The sleep genetics describes a rare inherited...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 17, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
On Feeling: The Resonant Field of Time is a lyric-philosophical essay in the ongoing On —ing series. Writing from the first person and then deliberately stepping back from it, the essay treats feeling not as private sentiment but as a mode of perception — a way of registering what the author calls the resonant field of time, the felt pattern that binds human lives into a "greater flow." It...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
This document sets out a theoretical framework — not a finding — for a proposed approach in which a person's own deeply meaningful music serves as the substrate for an intervention intended to extend the positive affective state that music evokes beyond the listening session itself. The framework is pre-empirical: hypotheses are stated to be falsifiable, mechanisms are ranked by evidence, and...