Book

I’m writing a book: Intelligence Beyond Neurons A new architecture for the minds we haven’t built yet.

Slime molds solve mazes. Fungal networks coordinate across forests. Ant colonies regulate resource flows with efficiency that rivals engineered systems—yet none of these organisms possess a single neuron. Intelligence Beyond Neurons uncovers the universal principles behind these non-neural intelligences and transforms them into a computational framework: Symbiotic Adaptive Intelligence (SAI).

SAI isn’t inspired by the brain. It’s inspired by systems that think without one. Built on pressure, flow, structure, and context, SAI is a new way to understand cognition—and a new way to build it.

This book is for anyone who senses that intelligence is more than prediction, more than optimization, and more than the neural frameworks we have inherited. It is a guide to the living patterns beneath all minds—biological and artificial alike.

For now, the cover and (draft) back cover is all I can provide… for now.

Backcover (Draft):

Intelligence did not begin with neurons. It began with structure, pressure, and the ability of living systems to hold themselves together long enough to become something more.

This book applies a theory of intelligence as living architecture—shaped by homeostasis, tension, and the continual negotiation between a system and its environment. It traces the early life of an idea as it learns to evolve: tested by reality, refined through reflection, and renewed whenever it encounters the limits of its own coherence.

Taken seriously, this framing challenges several assumptions that dominate contemporary approaches to artificial intelligence—particularly those that treat intelligence as something to be optimized rather than sustained.

The journey is rigorous, curious, and conscious of its ambition. It approaches complexity without bravado, recognizing that humility often outlasts certainty when systems grow beyond what they were designed to explain.

What emerges is a way of seeing intelligence as structural, adaptive, and quietly alive. The reader is invited to look past inherited assumptions and consider how minds may arise wherever coherence learns how to endure.

“All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer