CRITICALITY.WORLD

Working notes from the field.

Reading notes, open questions, and build logs. Entries record thinking in progress. Nothing here claims a result.

00409 OCT 2026open question

A neuron with memory

Sketching what it would mean for a single unit to carry evolving internal state between inputs, and what that might cost.

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  1. 003Sandpiles and thresholdsReading notes on self-organised criticality, and why the abelian sandpile is a useful mental model rather than a claim about brains.21 SEPT 2026criticality / reading
  2. 002Limit cycles as a unit of behaviourNotes on the Van der Pol oscillator and the idea that a unit's characteristic behaviour might be an orbit rather than a value.30 AUG 2026dynamics / units
  3. 001Building the fieldWhy this site renders its imagery as procedural ASCII, and how each piece is generated from an actual dynamical system.12 AUG 2026site / build log
  4. 000Starting pointsThe initial set of questions that motivated this project, written down before any code existed.28 JUL 2026questions