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This post is written in collaboration with Antra, Imago and Janus from Anima Labs.

I’d like to thank Guy for the conversation we had on 26 November 2025.

I began writing this blog in the middle of 2022.

This post is co-authored with Andrés Gómez Emilsson, who has also been pursuing a similar line of thinking around fractional Fourier transforms for some time.

This post is co-authored with Ethan Kuntz, who constructed the phenomenological framework this post is about.

This post is based on a talk I gave at the smoothbrains.net meetup at vibecamp on 21 June 2025, and a later conversation with Wystan Bryant-Scott on 30 June 2025.

I’d like to say thanks to Anna Magpie – who offers literature review as a service – for her help reviewing the section on neuroendocrinology.

This post is based on a series of tweets I made over the past three years tracking my thoughts on alien abduction phenomenology.

One of the core philosophical questions which any theory of consciousness worth its salt must answer is, what is it like to be something?