Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 12, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
Duality—such as science and religion, analysis and intuition—is not opposition but two ways of attending to one reality. The felt task of perceiving wholeness corresponds, by metaphor and possibly measurable correlation, to integrating the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on split-brain research, hemispheric asymmetry, fractal aesthetics, Jungian psychology (Persona, Ego, Self, individuation, and the mandala as a symbol of wholeness), the pineal gland as Descartes's seat of the soul and a symbol of the balancing Ego, recent neuroscience of endogenous DMT and the dying brain, and the neuroscience of ego-dissolution, the essay holds a deliberate seam between empirical finding and symbolic interpretation. It closes on quieting the self-narrating mind as a path to balance and inner peace.
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
June 26, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
This essay uses Andrew Wiles's indirect proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as a method for approaching the combination problem in philosophy of mind. It borrows the structure of the Frey–Ribet–Wiles route—a reduction, a bridge, and a theorem proved in a far domain—to reframe how micro-perspectives combine into a single unified subject as a question about redundant recording, drawing on quantum Darwinism and environment-induced einselection. The hinge is the double meaning of witnessing: to record and to undergo. The essay proposes a perspectival dual-aspect monism that identifies recording and undergoing as one act under two descriptions. It does not claim a proof but offers a meter: combination-failure becomes measurable degradation of redundant co-recording.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 22, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
A first-person narrative recounts a long struggle with depression and anxiety, using the subjectivity of color as a metaphor for what can and cannot be shared. The author describes a circumstantial way out through years of Transcendental Meditation, explicitly not offered as a clinical cure or universal path. The text then tests quantum concepts against lived phenomenology, reading biblical stories as superpositions collapsed by intent. It concludes with acceptance: the author stops testing the limits of being human, reaches for the stars, and argues for stopping the testing of one's own mind.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 17, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
Feeling is not private sentiment but a mode of perception that registers what the author calls the resonant field of time, the felt pattern binding human lives into a greater flow. The essay moves through synchronicity and the observer effect, addressing whether a charged moment is divine intervention or mere coincidence—answering both, the dual reality. It reframes the recognition that a life is lived one small moment from death as a doorway to presence and gratitude rather than fear. Touching on Maslow's hierarchy, the loss of a child's innocence to adulterants, and the limits of explanation before death and the Divine, it closes on connection: that we are, and always have been, one. This is phenomenology rather than argument, annotated with touchstones from Jung, Heraclitus, Bohr, Boethius, Spinoza, and others.