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Alif Jakir

Omnidisciplinary inventor

philosopher–scientist–futurist

Hi, I’m Alif—welcome to my site. My work sits at the intersection of artificial and organic intelligence: how minds arise in neural and machine substrates, and how we can design systems that amplify critical thinking and partnership with humans rather than substituting for them. The full layout, contact links, and research sections load with the interactive site.

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Interactive explorer — Assembly Calculus

Five guided steps through the core ideas, running in your browser.

Watch an assembly form. The source area has a fixed stimulus — 15 neurons firing out of 150. Through random synaptic connections, those neurons drive input into the target area. In round 1, the target winners are essentially random.

But Hebbian plasticity strengthens connections to the winners. By round 2–3, the same neurons keep winning — the assembly has converged. Green neurons are stable (won in the previous round too); cyan neurons are new winners.

This is projection: the most fundamental operation in the Assembly Calculus. It creates a stable representation of the source stimulus in the target area.

round: 0stability: 0%n=150 k=15 p=0.08 β=0.1