So, how does this field actually work?
First, we have to shift our thinking from ‘being’ to ‘behaviour’. When I call reality a field, I’m thinking of existence as activity before substance.

Everything starts with intensity. Every fold begins when there’s a difference in intensity, like an uneven distribution of potential across the field. This isn’t energy measured in units. I think of it as the felt gradient of becoming itself. The stronger this gradient, the more the field strains to reconfigure. Where these gradients converge, a singularity appears. This is a point of maximal curvature that anchors local stability. These singularities are the seeds of everything we later call particles, organisms, thoughts, or institutions. In other words: Intensity is the field’s appetite for form.

The field handles these gradients through modulation. This isn’t motion through space. Modulation produces space and time by varying curvature. What we perceive depends on its speed: when modulation slows, we perceive solidity; when it quickens, vibration; when it oscillates, we get rhythm. Matter, life, and language are all just temporal harmonics of this one process. I like to think there are broadly three main modes of modulation. The first is Stabilising, where the field equalises intensities and smooths curvature, which is what creates crystals, habits, and norms. The second is Differentiating, where the field amplifies difference and creates new folds, which is where we get growth, innovation, and thought. The third is Resonant, where distinct folds synchronise their rhythms, like in ecosystems, dialogue, or music. These modes have to overlap. A world entirely stabilised would be inert, and a world purely differentiating would dissolve.

Finally we have resonance which is the field’s capacity for mutual amplification. When two folds vibrate at compatible frequencies, their curvatures align. This lets energy pass freely between them. This is why I argue resonance is the physical basis of communication and the ontological root of understanding. Perception, empathy, and knowledge aren’t abstract symbolic operations. They are resonant events. It’s the field feeling itself through local synchrony. To “know” something is to oscillate with it until its pattern becomes part of one’s own.