L(t) equals a surface integral of attention over the sum of states — the coherence functional, rendered against a dawn horizon.
Jamison Johnson with his cat.

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Legible Traces

Aligned lives leave legible traces — ripples of intent through time.

This is the home of Jamison Johnson's writing — the On ——ing essays, the work toward a theory of coherent existence, and the cosmology underneath it. The full archive is being gathered here, with stable links out to its open deposits. For now, a few traces while the rest comes into focus.

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A few traces

A symbolic mural of religion and science meeting at a luminous geometric center.
MuralDuality — the struggle to explain the unity.
A dark meditation on whether life is an equals sign or an approximation sign.
Fragment≈ or = ? Spent a whole life trying to be equal, when the truer sign was always approximate.
A sepia-toned drawing of a single human eye.
On SeeingThe eye that catches itself in the act of looking.
A cat on a game-show titled Quantum Uncertainty, choosing between buttons marked alive and dead.
Quantum UncertaintyObserver-selected data carries no prophecy — yet the cat still has to choose a button.