# Writing

*Essays and notes. Nature, yoga and the mind, AI and the society of agents, mathematics, philosophy, beauty, science, music, and the side research I cannot put down.*

Essays and notes. Nature, yoga and the mind, AI and the society of agents, mathematics, philosophy, beauty, science, music, and the side research I cannot put down.

   

-   **Essay** Oct 17, 2026 [Every mind has a material cause](/writing/every-mind-has-a-material-cause)
    
    Samkhya says the effect pre-exists in the cause, the substrate is inert, and discernment comes before the self. Read as a design note for AGI, it says most of our alignment vocabulary is pointed at the potter and the clay decides more.
    
    [AI and agents](/topics/agents) [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind) [Science and technology](/topics/science)
    
-   **Essay** Oct 10, 2026 [Simple rules, whole societies](/writing/simple-rules-whole-societies)
    
    Three local rules give you a murmuration. Slightly different rules give you a stampede. The rules between agents deserve the same care as the capabilities inside them.
    
    [AI and agents](/topics/agents) [Mathematics](/topics/mathematics) [Optimization](/topics/optimization)
    
-   **Research** Apr 1, 2026 [Chitrakāvya: poems that are programs](/chitrakavya)
    
    Sanskrit poets encoded knight's tours, magic squares and palindromic surfaces into verse, a thousand years before Euler. The archive, with the tour you can step through.
    
    [Chitrakāvya](/topics/chitrakavya) [Mathematics](/topics/mathematics)
    
-   **Vedānta** Feb 22, 2026 [The seer who saw both](/darsana/vedanta)
    
    The end of the Veda and, its teachers insist, the end of thought. One set of texts read four ways: the world as appearance, as God's body, as God's dependent, as God himself.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind) [Beauty](/topics/beauty)
    
-   **Mīmāṃsā** Jun 15, 2025 [The act keeps its own books](/darsana/mimamsa)
    
    The school that defended the Vedic rite when the Buddhists had all but buried it: the word is older than the god, a text with no author cannot be wrong, and nobody is needed to pay out the fruit of an act.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [The human experience](/topics/human)
    
-   **Vaiśeṣika** Nov 3, 2024 [An inventory of everything](/darsana/vaisheshika)
    
    Nyāya's partner: the realist's list of what there is, down to the atom, with space and time counted as things rather than gaps.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [Science and technology](/topics/science)
    
-   **Nyāya** Apr 21, 2024 [Where there is smoke](/darsana/nyaya)
    
    The school of how we know and how we argue: four roads to knowledge, one shape for every inference, and a complete catalogue of the ways a losing opponent cheats.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [AI and agents](/topics/agents) [Mathematics](/topics/mathematics)
    
-   **Yoga** Oct 8, 2023 [A road out of the clay](/darsana/yoga)
    
    Sāṃkhya explained how consciousness gets caught in matter, and admitted it had no way out. Patañjali's Yoga is that way: a discipline rather than a theory, and the word does not mean what the studios think it means.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind) [The human experience](/topics/human)
    
-   **Sāṃkhya** Mar 12, 2023 [The clay before the pot](/darsana/samkhya)
    
    The oldest of the six and the one most often called scientific. Its first move is the question every creation story skips: a maker can shape a pot, but where did the clay come from?
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [Science and technology](/topics/science) [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind)

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