curious life · the journal

The journal.

Articles, films, and field reports from the making of the instrument, and what the record shows.

September 2026 · essay
The Polar H10, raw
Everything the strap gives and how to take it in a browser tab: the beats and their honest clock, the raw ECG at 130 Hz, finding the R. Working code, no SDK.
August 2026 · essay
The science of consciousness
The theory: light, coherence and chaos, time and probability, heat as information, attention. A century of cited research, every figure running on the live measurement.
August 2026 · essay
The experiments
Fifty years of random number generators held up to the mind: Schmidt, PEAR, the Global Consciousness Project. The record, with its critics on the page.
August 2026 · essay
The method
What is measured, the null hypothesis, what can be known and how, and the lineage of the statistics.
August 2026 · essay
The science
The mechanism itself, demonstrated live on your own device: the spin probe, the debiased bit stream, the random walk and its z-score.

New entries land here as they are made: how each instrument is built and the physics it borrows, experiment reports as they are preregistered and run, and film from the room as it takes shape. The maker is on this page.