THE SEESAW BOARD OF THOUGHT

Every thought you have is the result of many tiny decisions made by your brain, each one slightly biased by your history, your body, and your environment. Imagine a ball falling through a board of tilting seesaws instead of rigid pegs. No single seesaw decides where the ball lands, but the pattern of the board shapes the overall result. This model proposes that consciousness works the same way: structured noise feeding through biased geometry produces predictable patterns without requiring any single part to be in control. The theory bridges agency and predictability meaning your behavior is lawful but not fixed.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-04-10
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19491454
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Embodied and Extended Cognition
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THE SEESAW BOARD OF THOUGHT

Jesse Haskin
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Embodied and Extended Cognition
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THE SEESAW BOARD OF THOUGHT

Jesse Haskin
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Abstract

Every thought you have is the result of many tiny decisions made by your brain, each one slightly biased by your history, your body, and your environment. Imagine a ball falling through a board of tilting seesaws instead of rigid pegs. No single seesaw decides where the ball lands, but the pattern of the board shapes the overall result. This model proposes that consciousness works the same way: structured noise feeding through biased geometry produces predictable patterns without requiring any single part to be in control. The theory bridges agency and predictability meaning your behavior is lawful but not fixed.

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