The Theory
Ontogony
A theory of becoming, built from the bottom up. About what it costs for anything to be the kind of thing it is, and how new kinds of things come into being at all.
Ontogony starts from a simple observation: persistence is not free. Every regime that holds itself together against the second law does so at a measurable rate of energy dissipation. That rate is constitutive of what the regime is, not incidental to it.
From that single commitment, a framework follows. The general operator at its centre is transduction — the irreversible resolution of a metastable field through which a new regime, with its own vocabulary and its own conditions of failure, precipitates. Transduction is what happens when the universe installs a new register of description, and it is the structural shape that links a crystal forming, a cell metabolising, and a symbolic system bootstrapping its own grammar.
The theory is being written as a long book. This site is the field guide: a set of short, self-contained entries that let a stranger get the shape of the project quickly, and a serious reader trace the threads in whatever order they prefer.