WELCOME TO THE PERSONAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF
UNLIKELY QUESTIONS. CAREFULLY WORKED.
THE LAB IS OPEN. THE ANSWERS AREN’T.
A workshop for the questions we can’t quite leave alone.
We build models, pick at assumptions, and leave the workings where other minds can find them. Maybe we discover something. Maybe we leave a useful piece for someone who does.
Enter the notebookIndependent curiosity. Human + machine. Work in progress.
One monkey. One typewriter. Several outstanding questions.
THE NOTEBOOK / DIRECTORY
Two entries, two different kinds of question. Read the ideas, follow the sources, and pick up a thread.
A fig tree, a serpent, and the long journey from reaching for food to knowing what can be lost. A telling of Genesis that follows humanity into awareness, childbirth, labor, and the memory of a vanished garden.
Read the garden essay →“We probably followed snakes or used them as a clue to where food is.”
An overloaded switchboard, interlocking phases, and a question about black-hole information. The original essay, audited toy-model source, and recorded results are here to examine.
Open the first entry →“The caller does not come back. The syllables do.”
Questions about motion, measurements, and the possibilities that remain when several constraints must agree. This drawer is reserved for clearly stated models, reproducible calculations, and the assumptions that connect them to the world.
This research folder is being prepared. Its release will include sources and methods.
For the thought that arrived at 2 a.m. and still seemed interesting in daylight. An idea starts here with a clear question: what would we have to calculate, observe, or build to learn whether there is something to it?
A starting point can be useful long before it becomes a conclusion.
Some questions stay with you long enough that you have to sit down and work through them.
We want to make unusual ideas clear enough to examine, substantial enough to investigate, and open enough for somebody else to carry further.
A model tells us what follows from its assumptions. Evidence helps us decide whether those assumptions describe the world. We will keep that distinction visible, show where ideas change, and credit the people who help.
Find the mistake. Take the next step. Discover something we missed.
The name is a nod to the infinite monkey theorem: the thought experiment about random typing, enough time, and the works of Shakespeare.
For this workshop, it brings a little humility and a reason to keep typing. We can ask ambitious questions, take the calculations seriously, and keep a sense of humor about who is asking.
Maybe we help a researcher have a breakthrough. Maybe we have one ourselves. We want to leave something another mind can use.
