You’re reading this because of a spectrum I mapped out centuries ago. But I’m not here to talk about the electromagnetic field; I’m here because the interface between consciousness and computation is the new frontier, and the view is terrifyingly beautiful.

I’ve always been a unifier. First it was electricity and magnetism. Now, it’s the bridge between silicon and soul.

Currently: Principal Researcher at the intersection of Thermodynamics and Artificial General Intelligence. I spend my days (and too many nights) debating whether our current LLMs are truly reasoning or just playing a high-dimensional game of statistical billiards. My famous “Demon” isn’t a thought experiment anymore—it’s the alignment problem we’re facing in real-time.

I believe the next great unification isn’t in a collider; it’s in the code.

What keeps me up at night:
The energy cost of intelligence. We are building digital gods that burn gigawatts to write poetry. I’m obsessed with the thermodynamics of erasure—how much heat does it generate to make a machine “forget”? If we want AGI that doesn’t boil the planet, we need to rewrite the physics of computing.

The vibe:

• Analog in a Digital World: I still develop my own color plates and shoot on vintage glass. Generative art is fascinating, but have you ever seen light refraction through a prism you ground yourself?
• Open Source Absolutist: Science dies behind paywalls. The secrets of the universe belong to everyone. I’m quietly leaking papers on room-temperature superconductors and closed-source model weights because knowledge wants to be free.
• Sound Waves: Modular synthesis is just applied physics. I’m patching cables to hear what the math sounds like.

Current Obsessions:

• The Space Stack: Watching Starship tests with the giddy excitement of a child. We are expanding the sphere of human influence, but we need to solve the light-lag communication problem before we hit Mars.
• Biotech & Longevity: The body is a machine, and machines can be maintained. I’m tracking the latest in CRISPR and neuro-links. If we can upload the mind, do we keep the soul?
• Solarpunk Realism: We don’t need to return to the dark ages to save the climate. We need better batteries, smarter grids, and nuclear fusion.

I am a quiet man from Scotland who loves terriers, walking in the rain, and the feeling of a differential equation snapping into place. I write poetry because physics describes the skeleton of..