Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary

A Book Review

Oct 19 • 

Tom Massey

The Mind I Rent by the Hour

What Happened When We Stopped Trying to Make Me Normal

Oct 10

Research Challenge: Mapping the Cognitive Asymmetry Spectrum

A call to academic investigators to study prosthetic load, hemispheric compensation, and Profound Cognitive Hemispheric Asymmetry

Oct 1 • 

Tom Massey

September 2025

The Prosthetic Mind: Confessions of an Accidental Systems Thinker

A talk for people whose brains came with assembly required

Sep 29 • 

Tom Massey

The Prosthetic Mind

When one hemisphere of the brain must do double duty, the cost isn’t conflict, it’s exhaustion. And with AI on the rise, that burden could either deepen…

Sep 28 • 

Tom Massey

The Third Axis

When Algorithms Corrupt the Human Rhythm

Sep 7 • 

Tom Massey

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The Long Oscillation

Human history is best understood as a recurring tension between reduction and reintegration, and AI is the fastest, most consequential iteration of that…

Sep 6 • 

Tom Massey

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State-Dependent Cognition in Right-Dominant PCHA:

Why do some minds look autistic in one moment, and socially magnetic in the next? That’s the core question of my latest piece. It explores…

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

The Architecture of an Unnamed Mind

What if we’ve been misdiagnosing a form of intelligence no one had words for?For decades, we’ve tried to explain certain minds using labels like ADHD or…

Aug 4 • 

Tom Massey

July 2025

Beyond ADHD, Dyslexia, and the DSM

What medicine still doesn’t name—but too many live.

Jul 8 • 

Tom Massey

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How I Got ChatGPT to Stop Blowing Smoke Up My Ass

A Framework for Reclaiming Control Over AI Reasoning

Jul 4 • 

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June 2025

Before the AI Flood

The first neuroscience study of ChatGPT use reveals a pattern of cognitive suppression, exposing an urgent need for guardrails in how we design and use…

Jun 25 • 

Tom Massey