Research
This page gathers papers, essays, conceptual writings, and developing frameworks from across my wider body of work.
Some pieces are formal publications hosted on platforms such as Zenodo; others are exploratory or in-progress texts that contribute to the wider research field.
Featured Research
A growing archive of papers, essays, conceptual writings, and developing frameworks drawn from across my wider body of work.
Signal and Noise: Why Restraint Is Itself a Coherence Practice
Information theory, thermodynamics, Quaker silence, and Taoist wu wei all converge on the same structural insight: in a channel of finite capacity, every unit of noise directly reduces the space for signal to be heard at all.
Why I Published “Registers of Inquiry in Consciousness Studies”
I have published a new concept note, Field-Based Psychology: Registers of Inquiry in Consciousness Studies. It explores a problem I believe sits quietly underneath many debates about mind and consciousness: different kinds of claim are too often treated as though they were the same.
Two Kinds of Change: First-Order Stabilisation and Second-Order Reorganisation
Not every fix is the same kind of fix. First-order change adjusts within an existing structure; second-order change is the structure itself giving way — a pattern that shows up, independently, in physics, alchemy, Taoism, and Kuhn’s paradigm shifts.
What Is Coherence?
Coherence is more than order, calm, or control. It is alignment within complexity: the living integration of patterns, rhythms, and relationships that allows systems, people, and environments to function with greater clarity, resilience, and harmony.
Consciousness Beyond the Brain
What if consciousness is not produced by the brain alone, but arises through a deeper relationship between biology, awareness, and a wider field of information?
Measurement Without Reductionism: A New Paper on Coherence in Human Systems
This paper explores how coherence can be observed and worked with in human systems without reducing it to a single metric. It introduces a non-reductive framework that treats coherence as a patterned condition across multiple domains, understood through phase, scale, and context rather than static measurement.
External Archives
Zenodo Archive
Alongside the on-site research archive, selected writings are also published through Zenodo as part of the wider publication record. This includes papers, concept notes, and other developing research outputs connected to field-based psychology, coherence, consciousness, and related areas of inquiry.
Other External Archives
As work is published through additional platforms and archives, they will be listed here. This section is intended to reflect the wider publication footprint of the research as it develops over time.