Field Notes
Written from inside the lab
Occasional working notes on building the infrastructure of psychoactive state design: the models, the measurements, and the questions in between.
- pipeline · MSD-001 · state design
The pipeline as an instrument
How MSD-001 works as a neutral base layer, and why the program series is structured as designed combinations rather than one molecule at a time.
- osmanthus · state space · design
Why an atlas
On navigation as the working metaphor: what changes when emotional and cognitive states are treated as locations in a mapped space rather than side effects of individual molecules.
- osmanthus · phenomenology · representation layer
Before the map, a vocabulary
Why a searchable design space for subjective effects begins with sixty thousand human reports and a vocabulary stable enough to compare them.