Independent researcher at Nova University Lisbon, Cairo. I work across neuroscience, physics, information theory, and philosophy of mind — approaching scientific problems from first principles rather than disciplinary convention. My Substack essays (wadamalon) explore the bridge between heuristic intuition and formal understanding, which is how I arrived at empirical questions about consciousness and criticality. Background spans AI systems, Jungian psychology, and communication engineering, which together shape how I read biological information processing as a dynamical systems problem rather than a purely neural one.