I’m using the fold as my first principle. I think it’s a concept that is older than the atom and subtler than the idea of a relation. We see it everywhere. Nature is constantly folding: molecules coil, mountains buckle, neurons loop, and even thought itself reflects. A fold is a gesture of continuity. It’s how you get difference, like an inside and an outside, without rupture. By adopting the fold as our core principle, we can finally move past the binaries that have haunted Western thought. Instead of matter and mind, we can just talk about material curvature. Instead of subject and object, we have two orientations of one fold.

​This fold exists in what I call the field. This field isn’t a passive background for things to happen on. It is the thing that appears, and it does this through its own modulation. Physics is already comfortable with this idea. It talks about quantum fields vibrating to become particles, or gravitational fields bending as space-time. But my concept of the field is even broader. It also includes energy, sensation, meaning, and imagination. It is the total fabric of becoming, both physical and metaphysical. Everything that exists is just an inflection of this field. Everything that changes is just its reconfiguration.