Hello, I am Alexander.
Over the course of my lifetime, I have come to realise that I identify as a "generalist", meaning that I think best across multiple domains of interest with different degrees of depth in each. My professional background is mainly in Child Development (HE lecturing and Early Childhood focus), Psychology, English Literature, Psychotherapy and FEP/Neuroscience. Like many, I am also deeply interested in the phenomenons of AI, Machine Learning, Consciousness, and, more recently, CRR Mathematics! Most presciently, I am keen to ensure that we steer the ship and ride the wave as best as we possibly can. As you can see from the site, I have been busy applying the CRR principle in various systems; just playing, experimenting and exploring. I am now intrigued by how system maintain their identity through change, often building back stronger following Rupture through Regeneration. I have been inspired by the work of Michael Levin, Karl Friston, Daniel Friedman, and others, in this context, alongside philosophical principles from Whitehead, Wheeler and various others.
The toy simulations on the site are intended to be playful representations of CRR implemented in HTML; we did our best with the implementations but we are not pretending they're perfect. It isn't always easy to use coherence-based approaches because coherence just keeps on blowing up (which can cause unexpected rupture!) So, we manage controlled Rupture (discretized Dirac delta detection at critical thresholds) to stop that happening, and we use Regeneration to restore future states from past coherence L(x,τ). Check out the guide below, the videos on the Explainer page and the Mathematical Life page if you want to hear more about CRR and how it works. I made this site so people can play with the simulations and, hopefully, get in touch if they find something of interest here.
I am more than happy for people to throw these through an LLM and see what happens; put the core formalism in there, put a script in there, see where it takes you. I have offered some further exposition in the guide linked below, including details regarding pattern matching, curve fitting risks and some of the philosophical conjectures that have arisen so far through my experiments.
We live in strange times. I value connection, collaboration, and creativity, and believe that we need shared technical vocabularies to tackle the complex emergent problems in today's society. Play, for me, is the best way to deal with these mathematical and philosophical concepts - it's where we all started our learning journey, and perhaps its where we need to return to.
It takes a community, and we need more of them; spaces to connect, to heal, to care. Thank you to all of those people who have met with me, listened, responded and provided helpful guidance along the way.