Section 2
Learn
Five ways into the ideas behind this project. Each is written to stand on its own, and each is built around figures you can move rather than diagrams you have to take on trust.
They are meant to be read in any order, though the first three share a vocabulary: what you choose to measure, and how you compare two measurements.
One
Attunement
Two things unfold in time and you want to know whether they are related. That question turns out to mean at least four different things, and the instrument you reach for decides which of them you can see.
- Choosing an observable
- Four families of coupling
- Surrogate tests
- Nine live figures
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Two
Quantifying oscillations in natural images and sounds
A coastline is not a signal. Before anything can be measured against a heartbeat, a scene has to become a number that changes over time, and there are many honest ways to do that reduction.
- Spatial scale
- Real footage, measured live
- Timestacks
- Scale-free structure
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Three
The shape of a spectrum
Alpha power went up. Something happened, and that sentence does not say what. A spectrum holds a rhythm and a background at once, and the two move for different reasons.
- Aperiodic background
- Peaks and band power
- Fitting a spectrum
- The exponent as a trace
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Four
Measuring phenomenology
How something felt is not directly observable, and asking about it changes it. What a self-report can and cannot carry, and how to build an instrument that respects the difference.
- Scales and differentials
- Vividness and time depth
- What reports miss
Planned
Five
Nature connectedness
A research literature with its own instruments, its own disagreements, and a habit of measuring several different things under one name. What the construct claims, and where it is contested.
- The main scales
- State versus trait
- Open questions
Planned
Two of these are still to be written. They are listed rather than hidden because the shape of what is coming is useful in itself, and because a section that looks finished when it is not is worse than one that is honest about where it stands.