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01Typomora: Neuroscience, Naming and Framing for Paper 3The neuroscience: Literacy measurably changes the brain. Dehaene et al. (2010, Science) found increased responses to letters in the visual word form area (VWFA), a small displacement of face responses, and enhanced…ResearchResearch passMcLuhan & media theory7 claims · 20+ sources4 Oct
02The Computing Environment and Sensory Syncrasis: Evidence Review for Paper 2What the environment tunes toward: an outward-facing, fast-switching, offloaded mode. Readers calibrate less carefully and process expository text more shallowly on screens (g ≈ −0.21). Memory shifts toward external stores…ResearchEvidence reviewMcLuhan & media theory7 verdicts · 50+ sources4 Oct
03Sensory Syncrasis Evidence Base: Screens (Paper A) and ADHD (Paper B)Paper A (Screens): Change is real but mostly domain-specific and often enhancing. Action video games causally improve perceptual and attentional skills (Bediou et al. 2018: g = 0.34 in intervention studies, g = 0.55…ResearchEvidence reviewMcLuhan & media theory12 verdicts · 60+ sources4 Oct
04The Precision Ratio, Revisited: Why "Ratio" Is Half Right, and What to Call the WholeResearchNaming studyMcLuhan & media theory5 dimensions · 30+ sources4 Oct
05The Medium Becomes the Ground: McLuhan and the Allostatic Model of Addiction (rebuilt)Work linking McLuhan to drugs and addiction exists only at the level of discourse and metaphor. The nearest example is Hartogsohn & Vudka (2023, Transcultural Psychiatry), which is about smartphone "addiction" and McLuhan's…ResearchResearch passMcLuhan & media theory7 coinages · 30+ sources4 Oct
06The Medium Becomes the Ground: Foundation Research on Sense Ratios, Precision, Interoception, Allostasis and AddictionHistoriography: McLuhan stated in physiological terms that media "alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance," funded and ran media-comparison experiments in the 1950s, and in…ResearchMcLuhan & media theory0 figures · 11 sources4 Oct
07Price Without Discovery: From Market Signal to Algorithmic InstructionThe lead thesis is sound and publishable: for two centuries the price was understood as an emergent signal no one sets (Hayek, 1945); algorithmic, dynamic, and surveillance pricing increasingly make the price computed and…ResearchMcLuhan & media theory23 figures · 5 sources27 Sep
08After the Net Comes Up: Tom Tyler's "Procrustean Probe," the Tetrad Debate, and What CANOPTICON Should Do After IngestionTom Tyler's point is more useful than a simple "the tetrad is vague.ResearchMcLuhan & media theory5 figures · 23 sourcesSep
09Net-Casting: A Practice for Turning AI Research Into a Generative, Mind-Changing CraftThe core finding is that AI research agents drift toward consensus by default, so novelty does not come from better questions alone.ResearchMcLuhan & media theory5 figures · 25 sourcesSep
10The Network That Is the Model: Architectures for a Generative-Substrate Social MediumThe most ambitious version is buildable in fragments today but not as a monolith: no existing platform makes a continuously-learning generative model the core substrate of a human social network.ResearchMcLuhan & media theory7 figures · 5 sourcesSep
11How NotebookLM Constructs Coherent Narratives — and How to Replicate It for Video-Essay ScriptsNotebookLM does not use a published, special "argument-structuring algorithm.ResearchMcLuhan & media theory5 figures · 15 sourcesSep
12The Price Frontier: From Discovery to Administration — A CANOPTICON Research BriefCanada the technology "wins" have NOT cleanly offset the housing/food "losses," because the risers are non-substitutable necessities that dominate household budgets and have outrun wages over 2000–2026.ResearchBuild briefMcLuhan & media theory32 figures · 6 sourcesSep
13Research Pass for “The Medium Becomes the Ground”: an evidence map for seven theoretical claimsThis report assesses the empirical and theoretical literature underpinning seven distinct claims in the perspective paper. For each, the existing evidence is summarized, key authors and works are flagged, and the paper's claiResearchMcLuhan & media theory10 figures · 56 sources22 Jul
14The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Interfaces, and the Fifty-Year Visual DetourThis research pass maps each of the six requested threads, identifies the strongest anchors, and flags the genuine gaps where the paper's contribution is most original.ResearchResearch passMcLuhan & media theory37k characters22 Jul
15A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concepts, Neuroscience, Unexplored Territory, and Critical ReceptionMarshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is one of the most cited and least carefully read theorists of the twentieth century.ResearchResearch briefMcLuhan & media theory125k characters22 Jul
16Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"Strongest contributions are highlighted in each thread, and a final synthesis identifies what distinguishes the paper from existing work.ResearchResearch passMcLuhan & media theory50k characters22 Jul
17The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Methods for Looking at the LookingPetitmengin) and neurophenomenology (Varela) for first- and second-person rigor; contemplative training to render the self-model opaque (Metzinger); and interpretability/introspection probes (Jack Lindsey, Anthropic, October 2025) for machine analogues.ResearchResearch briefMcLuhan & media theory38k characters22 Jul