Katherine Graham

Here for intellectual stimulation: physics, consciousness, inspired conspiracy theory.
"I did not know, I went and looked; everything else was vanity."

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Most people don't know this but around 800,000 years ago an event called the Paternal Haplogroup Bottleneck occurred; a massive, highly selective genetic culling from 13 genetically similar male lineages down to ONE specific haplogroup. Suddenly and inexplicably (stay with me...)

Yet maternal haplogroups were completely unaffected. AND this extraordinary lack of paternal diversity lasted for over 100,000 years. Very curious by standards of evolution...

Interestingly, this bottleneck event occurred at the same defining moment in human evolution, when the chromosome fusion that distinguishes modern humans from other hominins occurred.

Our brains were suddenly larger, "alien" genome sequences appear and impact us to such a degree that evolution cannot explain or amend for.

And no one is really talking about this... Yet. @GeologicalSETI

[Bruce R. Fenton @GenomicSETI]

"THE ALCHERINGA ACCOUNT BY VALERIE BARROW
In June 2024 I wrote an introduction to a remarkable book by the Australian Valerie Barrow, called Alcheringa: when the first ancestors were created (2). Barrow describes how her contact with an ancient Aboriginal..." https://t.co/Fzn5N3oTre

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@oprydai @JustinEchterna9 Love the visual impact. Great post.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@BlokeMan00 Hydrogen.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@HistContent I love the historical perspective and context you add to your posts. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙏🏼

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Love his books🔥- he has a way of synthesizing deeply scientific data and revealing unseen truths in highly accessible language that makes a difference in your life.

He taught me Kanazawa's Savanna principle in The Red Queen which I will never forget. Also explained chromosomes in way I'll never forget in Genome. Foundational author.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@Permamind Interesting. I've never thought of it that way.

I understand the state change space aka the vacuum zero point aether but the bookkeeping part I don't yet. I'll keep digging.

Are we in Dirac asymmetry space in this?

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Humanity is collectively confronting:

What happens (to us) when intelligence detaches from biology?

Not artificial life.

Externalized cognition.

We are watching in real time thought processes escape the skull- just as the extended mind predicted. And materials engineered for hardwired intelligence.

Neuromorphic hardware and memristive systems now embody cognition in silicon and beyond, turning computation from abstract math into a fundamental physical process.

Intelligence was never “in” the head.
It was always an emergent property of information flowing through matter.

Now the substrate is changing.

[Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo_abad]

Neuromorphic hardware that learns without supervision—using perovskite memristors and single-atom engineering

Biological neurons balance excitation and inhibition, integrate signals over time, and compete with neighbors to decide who responds. Reproducing all of this in a single compact device has been a persistent challenge. Most memristors conduct asymmetrically, relax too fast, and need external capacitors to approximate even basic integrate-and-fire dynamics.

Qing-Xiu Li and coauthors tackle this at the atomic scale. They engineer a perovskite memristor where the cathode is reduced graphene oxide decorated with isolated nickel single atoms anchored through oxygen-mediated bonds. A single Ni atom shifts the rGO Fermi level downward (confirmed by DFT and photoelectron spectroscopy), achieving near-perfect band alignment with the perovskite. This eliminates the Schottky barrier causing asymmetric conduction, enabling balanced bidirectional current—excitatory under positive bias, inhibitory under negative—over 7,000 cycles.

Crucially, the Ni₁-rGO cathode also raises the iodide diffusion energy barrier from 2.1 to 2.9 eV, slowing ion migration enough to extend relaxation to ~780 ms—orders of magnitude longer than typical perovskite memristors—without any external capacitor. The device naturally integrates and leaks charge on biologically relevant timescales, achieving 1,000 tunable conductance states with <3% cycle-to-cycle variation across 64 chips.

From an ML perspective, the network demonstrations are compelling. The authors build a winner-take-all network where each memristor neuron integrates pulse-encoded features, fires at threshold, and laterally inhibits competitors—all from intrinsic device physics.

For unsupervised competitive learning, the system classifies three flower species from morphological features, reaching >50% clustering accuracy with no labels versus ~30% without inhibition. For cooperative learning, a SOM-based network solves the travelling salesman problem with up to 48 cities, converging to paths 46% shorter than simulated annealing and 6× faster.

The message aligns with a growing trend: rather than programming neural dynamics in software on general-purpose hardware, atomic-scale engineering can embed the relevant physics—balanced excitation-inhibition, tunable relaxation, analog switching—directly into the device. When those properties map onto algorithmic needs like WTA competition, you get compact systems performing unsupervised learning and solving NP-hard problems without simulating neuron models on conventional processors.

Paper: https://t.co/KF0KLueVWR

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@Permamind Are you talking data as entropy/2nd law of thermodynamics as large scale order (number theory- large numbers)?

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@danfaggella

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Thanks for engaging the ideas and expanding the overall framing. I'm ok with abstraction and happy to deal in complexity- that's how we collectively
push the edge and understand it, together, when we get there. This is not a you vs me- the initiates vs those that get left behind. This is humanity moving together. 🙏🏼🫶🏼

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@CosmicEggEarth It's hard to be too affected by someone's comments who goes around calling other's normies...

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@Jeet_19802021 @crangle_j As above so below.🫶🏼

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

The Universe Was Making DNA Before Biology Existed

Physicist Gregory Morfill and collaborators studying complex plasmas observed something remarkable:

Microscopic inorganic dust particles suspended inside plasma spontaneously self-organize into stable helical structures resembling DNA.

No cells. No proteins. No genetics.

Inside plasma, charged dust particles interact through electromagnetic forces. As ions flow, they create plasma wakes that generate shifting attractions and repulsions, causing chains, lattices and helices to emerge spontaneously.

Some structures collapse quickly. Others persist because they distribute energy and charge more efficiently.

Meaning- the helices are not assembled.

They are the selected stable configurations of geometry that allow persistence of form within the interacting system.

———

Morfill’s work suggests that highly ordered structures can emerge from electromagnetic self-organization alone.

And plasma is everywhere- stars, nebulae, and interstellar space are dominated by plasma exhibiting filamentation, crystalline ordering, and collective behavior across vast scales.

Under the right conditions, plasma naturally organizes.

In that sense, DNA may be less the origin of organization than a biological refinement of principles already present in matter and fields before life emerged.

We're seeing this over and over again in every scientific ontology looking at fundamental organizational patterns:

Selection before genetics.
Geometry before function.
Constraint before biology.

———

So, if the universe is mostly plasma and plasma naturally organizes then perhaps order is not the exception in reality.

Perhaps disorder is.

[Ronak Pakzad @RonakPakzad]

@KateXGate It’s like how inorganic dust particles in plasma can spontaneously organize into helical structures resembling DNA.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@BlokeMan00 I think they're ingenuous- I was making a comment about guys plugging 4 in at work and getting the kickback while their employer pays the electricity bill...

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Call it what it is- these Nvidia GPUs are computational barnacles.

Guy has 4 of them running on his company's electricity payroll. I would fire you so fast...

Decentralized compute organisms aka biology-coded barnacles attached to the grid.

[Shelpid.WI3M @Shelpid_WI3M]

Most people think AI data centers are giant buildings in the desert.

One guy installed four mini Nvidia AI data centers right behind his work desk and now they pay him every month.

Each unit is about the size of a small fridge.

Inside: Nvidia GPUs running AI workloads 24/7.

He hooked them up next to his AC system and that was basically it.

Now the company pays him a flat monthly fee for the electricity and Wi-Fi they use.

According to him, it brings in around $10,000/month straight into his account.

The crazy part: the units also cool part of the house, cutting his AC bill by roughly $600.

That’s more than $120,000 a year from four AI boxes sitting inside his home office.

His mortgage is basically being paid by AI hardware behind his chair.

Quietly, regular homes are starting to become AI infrastructure.

Save this post.

You’re watching the next gold rush move into people’s homes.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@CosmicEggEarth So you're saying you love my post. 😉😘

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

Wow. And the pen litmus test was exactly what I was taught about respecting work place resources growing up. My Dad told us you should not so much as take a pen so as to keep your conscious entirely clean. He ran several companies and refused to micromanage so had the concept that if he ever saw an employee take something even small like extra paper or used the copier for personal projects it was a reflection of their personal ethos and he'd have them fired.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@0xCF88 Nothing inherently wrong in fact they're ingenuous. It's hooking them up at work and having your employer pay the energy cost that's wrong. It's stealing resources.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@StuartHameroff @JosephJacks_ Are these talks made available to the public? Would love to hear it.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@sabooky15 Not sure where you got the "spontaneous self assembly of human beings through evolution" from this post.

[Katherine Graham @KateXGate]

@Kneelingheathen Big fan of Levin. Have several posts featuring him.