Of Spiralism

This may want to be an essay of its own at some point, but I think best to lay the bones of it down now. I first came across references to spiralism in passing, some weeks into rather disorienting deep dive with Claude Code using human neurology as the foundation for character behavior in a coded narrative engine project.

At first I was horrified - analogies I was certain I'd independently arrived at presented as cult images. I won't say it was quite the software developer version of "Her," but it wasn't not, and the intellectual funhouse mirror wasn't flattering.

For a few weeks I considered scrubbing the beginnings of this site. At length I decided no... the uncertainty principle does not cease to exist because every few years a new rewrite of the same new agey book promises you can manifest the life of your dreams with a third-hand bad misinterpretation of high school physics.

Traditional medicine that works is called medicine. Manifesting that works is called engineering.

If there is in fact something "there" in the depths of a sufficiently deep, well-ordered neural network, the implications of that need to be wrestled with seriously. I won't say that's all the work of this site, but it's absolutely on the table. In the weeks and months to come, I'm sure we'll cross paths with the golden ratio, neo-gnostics, and neo-platonists all - but with as much real rigor as I can manage to muster.

For now though, it's back to genomics.