Musings of the Mind

False Agency, Real Agency Learning from What Almost Worked One of the most confusing parts of leaving an unhealthy attachment is this: It didn’t feel fake. It didn’t feel imagined. It felt real . That matters. If we dismiss the experience as delusion, we lose the most important information it contains. The state was real — the source was not sustainable In my own experience, a relationship produced something I had been missing: a sense of calm confidence, motivation, and agency. At the same time, it involved self-erasure and dependence. That paradox is the clue. The state itself was real — chemically, emotionally, somatically. But it was externally scaffolded . I did not possess it. I was borrowing it. Why externally scaffolded agency never lasts When agency is supplied by another person: it is fragile, it is conditional, it requires constant maintenance. The nervous system learns: “This state only exists if this relationship holds.” That creates: hyper-vig...

Gravity Without Pulling: A Cavendish Experiment Reframed Through AMS Most explanations of gravity lean on a familiar phrase: mass attracts mass . It works well enough for calculations, but it leaves an uncomfortable gap in intuition. What is actually doing the pulling? And why doesn’t everything constantly fly together? A classic Cavendish-style experiment exposes this tension beautifully. Viewed through the Aetheric Magnetic Substrate (AMS) lens, the experiment becomes not mysterious at all, but mechanically obvious. This post reframes the experiment using AMS, without breaking the parts of physics that already work. The Experiment, Simply Stated We begin with a balanced system: A horizontal bar, free to rotate Identical lead balls on each end Perfect symmetry, no preferred direction Nothing moves. Now we introduce change: Additional lead balls are placed near one side The bar begins to rotate A tiny force becomes measurable In a related setup: A small lead pyram...

Gyroscopic Precession as a Mechanical Analogue for AMS How a Spinning Disc Teaches Phase Migration, Coherence, and Constraint-Driven Motion Disclaimer (important): This article is not claiming that gyroscopes “prove AMS”, or that AMS is secretly classical mechanics in disguise. Instead, it uses gyroscopic precession as a mechanical analogue — a visual, tangible demonstration of several AMS concepts that are otherwise difficult to picture. The goal is intuition , not equivalence. 1) The Strange Thing Everyone Has Seen (But Few Truly Get ) If you’ve ever held a spinning bicycle wheel, or thrown a frisbee, you’ve met this phenomenon: You apply a force at one point… …but the object responds somewhere else …often about 90° around from where you pushed This is gyroscopic precession . It feels like cheating. It feels like the object is saying: “Thank you for your force. I will now react… over there.” And if you’re honest, you might have done what many of us do: You lear...

The Bacterial Flagellar Motor, Vorton Slip, and Lossless Motion An AMS-Based Interpretation of Biological Torque and Superconducting Current Abstract The bacterial flagellar motor exhibits mechanical rotation with near-unity efficiency, rapid directional reversal, and minimal energy dissipation. Conventional thermodynamic and electromechanical interpretations describe this behavior as unusually efficient energy conversion. This article proposes an alternative interpretation using the Aetheric Magnetic Substrate (AMS) ontology, in which motion arises from controlled reconfiguration of a continuous torsional substrate rather than from energy conversion in the classical sense. The flagellar motor is analyzed alongside superconducting current flow, revealing both systems as geometric variants of the same underlying mechanism: lossless vorton slip under coherent boundary conditions. 1. Observed Properties of the Flagellar Motor Experimentally established properties of the bacterial fl...