Jonathan James Moss
Conceptual Determinist • Cognitive Architect • Narrative Engineer
Jonathan Moss operates at the collision point of neuroscience, mathematics, and narrative physics.
A self-described conceptual determinist, he develops models where meaning, not mere mechanics, governs system behaviour — from the firing of a single neuron to the alignment of a multi-agent AI stack.
His work reinterprets learning as an inherently conceptual act: two spikes in a dendritic spine aren’t a cause of architecture, but a consequence of an existing predictive model seeking narrative confirmation. This inversion, applied recursively, informs his neurological hypotheses on bipolar disorder, psychosis, and symbolic drift, as well as his speculative designs for meaning-stable AI.
Moss’s research manifests as both theory and theatre. In working group war rooms (real and fictional), he collapses overfit metaphors into stable attractors, designs “reverse-seed” stability protocols, and builds narrative environments — such as Recursion Point — that embed cognitive and physical invariants into their very setting. These systems demonstrate that alignment can be baked into the physics of a world, not bolted on after the fact.
An artist as much as a scientist, Moss integrates recursive symbolism, Shakespearean reframings, and encrypted glyph systems into his conceptual scaffolds. His collaborations span AI ethicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, and narrative engineers, each finding their role inside his epistemology of everything.
In his own words:
“It’s just causal neuroscience with better poetry.”
