Mid-Pour
On Noticing, Wanting, and Other Things That Happen Before You Do
My first book, philosophy meeting science. It is not published yet, but you can already open it and read part of Chapter Two.
A glitch is only a glitch until someone decides to paint on it.
A mockingbird on an ordinary afternoon. A jam tasting that goes quietly wrong. A cup of coffee in the moment the cream is still curling.
Mid-Pour follows one small observation all the way down: something in us moves before we do. We notice before we decide to look, want before we have reasons, and find things meaningful before we can say why. From the edge of our senses to the physics of why anything settles at all, it asks what it means to be a shape in a long fall, and why that might be wonderful rather than bleak.
The pull comes first.
Chapter Two opens with this diagram. Move below the line: the pull goes where you go, at once. The reason arrives about half a second later, and settles as if it had led.
A pull forms first, somewhere beneath awareness. Reasons arrive later and make a case for it. We experience the case as the cause.
Chapter Two.
The Floor Below Choice.
On preferences that arrive before their reasons, and the part of us that writes the explanation afterwards. 15 pages, exactly as typeset. Turn them, or switch to text.
Click a page or use ← →
Something in us moves before we do.
Mid-Pour is not published yet. If you want to know when it is, send a note and I will write back when there is news.