This is a set of Essays, Field Notes and Creative work. Individual works may be revised over time. This remains a work in progress and subject to revision.
Essays
- Meaning After Certainty (Essay)
Why coherence may matter more than belief
- What Counts as Science (Essay)
What is the point of demarcation, and when does it mislead ? - Why Induction is a Problem and what scientists do anyway (Essay) Drilling into Induction and the Markov Blanket Metaphor
- What Makes an Explanation Explanatory in Science? (Essay)
- Snowflakes – Lawless Explanation (Essay) Following on from “What makes an Explanation Explanatory“
- What we should believe about Unobservables (Essay) Should success make us realists?
- Optimisation and mis-specification as an epistemic failure mode (Essay)
- When Signals Become Steering Rules – Boundaries, Feedback, and Proxy Drift Across Substrates (AI orientated Essay)
Field Notes
The Markov Blanket Metaphor
As a metaphor for the Demarcation Problem in science
Poetry
- Couched in Leather (Poem)
An image of the shadowed feminine - Maria (Poem)
Bittersweet Love - Invocation of the fallen God (Poem)
Mystical Remains - Marvellous Toys (Poem)
- By a Rowan Wood (Poem)
- Hear the whisper of the Red Horse (Poem)
- The Mistress (Poem)
- Red Hot Guilt (Poem)
- The Spotlight (Poem)
- Clouds on Toast (Poem)
- Gaia–We (Poem)
- Consurgens (Poem)
- Nigredo (Poem)
- Lost (After David Wagoner)
- Flying (Poem)
- The Window Box (Poem)
- The Stranger (Poem)
- The Moon (Poem)
- Swept Up (Poem)
- The boy and the flying Flowerpots (Poem)
- Ode to the Treehouse (Poem)
- The Journey (Poem)
- Empty Words (Poem)
- Without Me (Poem)
- Pain and Tears (Poem)
- By Fiat (Poem)
- Into the Silence, Still (Poem)
- The Child (Poem)
Prose
- A Shared Breath (Poetic Prose)
Primordial Observation - The Communion of the Carnivore (Poetic Prose)
The Shadow - The Old Place (Short Prose)
- Resurrection (Short Prose)
- Behind the Smile (Poetic Prose)
- Between Fire and Wing (Poetic Prose)
- The Quill (Poetic Prose)
- Cassandra (Poetic Jungian-orientated Prose)
- Mr Shooter (Prose / Free Verse)
- Dead Leaf (Prose / Free Verse)
- Carnival Teeth (Prose / Free Verse)
- After the Flame (Prose / Free Verse)
- Tension (Poetic Prose)
- Wendy (Poetic Prose)
- Roots (Poetic Prose)
- The Emissary (Prose / Free Verse)
- The Residue (Poetic Prose)
- Crystal Reality (Poetic Prose)
- Mona (Poetic Prose)
- Iris (Poetic Prose)
Whimsical
The Bird (Satire, Free Verse, Poetic Prose)
Mint Condition (Satirical Relationship Vignette)
Asclepius in the Cave, Mercurius in the Yard (Satirical Poetic Prose)
Songs
- The Bride (Song)
To the Beloved - Secrets (Song)