Neuroscience

Research note in development

Conductor or Orchestra? Two Ways to Understand the Human Brain

Comparing centralized control with embodied and distributed accounts of mind

The brain is often described either as the body's controller or as one participant in a larger living system. This developing research note compares those pictures across evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior. Its evidence method is still being refined, so its conclusions remain provisional.

Research note in development

The Body's Whisper Network: How Living Systems Communicate

A bounded synthesis of neural signals, evidence standards, and shared concepts

Nerves do not communicate alone; chemical, immune, bodily, and environmental signals also shape what organisms sense and do. This developing research note maps that wider communication network and the evidence used to study it. Search reproducibility and source accounting remain incomplete.