Embodied Systems develops mathematical frameworks for conscious experience — how states form, persist, transition, and synchronize across individual and collective scales. We treat consciousness as a dynamical object, not a philosophical problem.
Each paper below has its own browsable page with an abstract, table of contents, and a downloadable PDF. Code accompanying the frameworks is available on GitHub.
Experimental work is designed to test specific predictions of the NADS and TCA frameworks. Where possible, experiments are preregistered and data is released openly.
Research software accompanies the papers rather than being described only in prose — a protocol that must be reimplemented from a methods section is not portable.
Embodied Systems is a consciousness research organization developing formal frameworks for the dynamics of conscious experience.
The core project is the Nested Attractor Dynamical Systems (NADS) framework — a substrate-independent, multi-scale account of how conscious states form, persist, transition, and synchronize. The framework is designed to be falsifiable: it generates specific predictions about dwell-time distributions, collective synchronization thresholds, and the signature of landscape drift, and it withdraws predictions that don't work.
Work extends across the individual-to-collective scale: from clinical applications (depression as a deep basin, psychedelic therapy as landscape flattening) to collective field dynamics (egregore formation, dancefloor coherence, platform algorithm topology) to instrumentation (the egregore monitor as a real-time field measurement system).
Research is released as open working papers. Code is open-source. The framework is designed to accommodate further nesting levels if evidence warrants — including GCP-level physical field measurements.