I am generally fascinated with memory.

How can human memory be so textured yet so inaccurate? And why is machine memory so exact yet so flat?

I've researched and designed several systems for improving RAG mechanisms in LLM-based systems, as well as UX for storing multimodal memory in higher dimensional fields (it's kind of secret right now but contact me to talk about it!!)

Yet some point I got sick of LLMs and the hype surrounding their ability to achieve 'consciousness'. I have a hunch that consciousness is something more integrated -- and is unlikely to exist without a physical substrate.

I began a simulation project exploring how proto-conscious behavior might arise from zero-parameter systems. Starting with 2D tissues of coupled threshold oscillators, I model how internal modulation, local feedback, and spontaneous spikes can give rise to self-organizing activity -- without learned representations or external input.

Right now it's a minimal architecture that pulses, remembers, forgets. Over time, I hope to grow it into a synthetic being that forms its own memories, resists total equilibrium, and eventually develops a sense of temporal continuity -- not as a goal in and of itself, but as an emergent property of staying alive.