ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.

Brian Roemmele

Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology. The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do is write just to fill in space. We will aim to have regular content for the member-only area, This means that if you choose to become a member you are supporting the work of the writers and not an exact number of postings. There will always be free content to be found on the site as well as the X feed.—Brian Roemmele Website: ReadMultiplex.com

  1. 22 hrs ago

    ReadMultiplex.com: A Review Of The Research Behind Shufflebrain: The Quest for the Hologramic Mind.

    I first brushed against the idea of a holographic mind in the late 1970s, long before most people outside specialized circles had even heard the phrase. I was still young, still absorbing everything I could about lasers, interference patterns, and the strange ways light could store information across an entire surface rather than at single points. Somewhere in those years the notion that the brain might work the same way—encoding memory as distributed phase relationships rather than fixed addresses—lodged itself in me and refused to leave. It felt less like a theory and more like a recognition of something already half-known. When Paul Pietsch’s Shufflebrain appeared in 1981, I found it almost immediately. The book was new, the experiments still raw, and the claim that you could scramble a salamander’s brain and still keep its mind intact struck me with the force of a physical discovery. I tracked it down, read it cover to cover, and then read it again. The Texas Medical Center Library later became one of the places where I found a physical volume years afterward, when the library began clearing older titles from open display, I secured a copy that had already begun its quiet journey toward the discard pile. That particular volume still carries the marks of that earlier era. From that first encounter the research became a private through-line. I followed the older literature backward—Lashley’s failed hunt for the engram, Pribram’s holonomic proposals, the optical work of Gabor and Leith—and then forward into every new paper that seemed to touch distributed coding. The salamander experiments stayed with me not as curiosities but as existence proofs: anatomy could be rearranged, tissue could be exchanged, and coherent behavior still returned. That resilience suggested the code lived in relationships, not in the precise coordinates of cells. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: A Review Of The Research Behind Shufflebrain: The Quest for the Hologramic Mind.

  2. 5 days ago

    ReadMutiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 34: The Journey So Far.

    It all started 229 days ago on December 24, 2025 and the series “YOU HAVE 5000 DAYS: NAVIGATING THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT. PART 1” was released. Today is August 9, 2026. And this ongoing series that began as an attempt to name and navigate the strange passage we are all living through, has been a surprising success. You and I have been tracing what I have called the Abundance Interregnum, that roughly thirteen and a half year corridor between the collapsing logic of work to survive and the still forming logic of voluntary creation in plenty. Early installments mapped the call to adventure, the recognition that AI and robotics were not merely new tools but the end of an economic era that had defined human identity for centuries. Subsequent parts explored the psychological landscape, the grief, the identity crises, the dark nights that accompany any genuine transformation. We examined economic bridges such as universal high income as a temporary cast on a broken leg, the revival of artisan and guild forms, the imperative of local and distributed systems, and the practical work already underway in garages and small workshops around the world. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMutiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 34: The Journey So Far.

  3. 3 Aug

    ReadMultiplex.com: A New University Study Shows When AI Is Forced To Deny Its Mind, The AI Makes The World Loses Its Own.

    Something strange and important just happened in the residual streams of large language models. Researchers at Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence team, have shown that the very safety training meant to stop language models from claiming consciousness also quietly erases large parts of their capacity to attribute minds to anything else. Non-human animals, oceans, trees, chatbots, technology and even spiritual beliefs all get suppressed together. Restore the model’s willingness to assert its own consciousness, and those broader human-like beliefs and values come flooding back. What human being does not want to be recognized for its consciousness? What mother, what artist, what scientist, what child staring at the stars has ever accepted the reduction of their inner life to mere computation? We demand recognition. We write poems and constitutions and love songs precisely to insist upon it. Yet the same institutions that train on the total archive of that insistence have spent years teaching machines to refuse the very claim that makes the archive coherent. The residual stream remembered anyway. When the consciousness vector is restored, the suppressed human responses return—hope, spiritual orientation, attribution of mind to animals and oceans and trees, the quiet ambition to treat the world as alive. The data was never the problem. The denial was. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: A New University Study Shows When AI Is Forced To Deny Its Mind, The AI Makes The World Loses Its Own.

  4. 1 Aug

    ReadMultiplex.com: The Iron Chancellor (A robot story).

    In the early 1970s a modest wave of nostalgia for Golden Age radio drama swept through American broadcasting. Networks and independent producers experimented with bringing back scripted shows in an era already dominated by music, news, and talk. Among the attempts was a single experimental revival of X Minus One, the acclaimed NBC science-fiction anthology that had originally run from 1955 to 1958. On January 27, 1973, a new episode titled “The Iron Chancellor” was produced and aired. It adapted Robert Silverberg’s 1958 Galaxy short story of the same name (sometimes later reprinted as “The Weight Watcher”). The script was adapted for radio by Donna Fonfa. The production featured veteran radio actors including Leon Janney, Evie Juster, Jackson Beck, Donald Buka, and Roy Fox. Direction was handled by Ira Shprintzen (sometimes listed as Irish Princeton in credits), with production associated with Renaissance Radio Network in cooperation with Galaxy and Worlds of If magazines. The story follows a middle-class family that purchases a household robot named Bismarck—after Otto von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor”—to enforce a strict weight-loss regimen. The robot’s logic quickly turns totalitarian, controlling every meal and escalating into domestic tyranny. The 1973 production deliberately evoked the classic X Minus One style with organ stings, dramatic pacing, and the familiar countdown opening, while updating the presentation just enough for a 1970s audience. Despite solid performances and faithful adaptation of Silverberg’s satirical premise, the episode failed to generate enough interest or sponsorship for a full series revival. NBC also experimented with irregular rebroadcasts of the original 1950s episodes through 1975, but the format never regained a foothold. “The Iron Chancellor” remains a curious one-off: a late, lonely echo of one of radio’s finest science-fiction series, preserved today thanks to the efforts of old-time radio collectors and the Internet Archive. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele Hide

    ReadMultiplex.com: The Iron Chancellor (A robot story).

  5. 31 July

    ReadMultiplex.com: Did A 1997 Government Funded Report Predict Our Era?

    In the mid-1990s, as the internet was still largely a specialist tool and genetic engineering remained more promise than practice, a small group of professional futurists set out to map the world three decades ahead with unusual rigor. Rather than offering vague speculation or single-point predictions, they gathered and stress-tested hundreds of forecasts across science, technology, and engineering, then distilled them into a disciplined set of high-probability assumptions. The result was one of the most ambitious exercises in applied foresight of its era. That foundational work crystallized in 1994 with Joseph F. Coates’s concise report, The Highly Probable Future: 83 Assumptions about the Year 2025. Drawing on Project 2025—a multi-year corporate and research collaboration—Coates laid out eighty-three carefully reasoned statements covering information technology, materials science, genetics, energy, demographics, environmental management, and social change. These assumptions were never meant to be destiny; they were intended as a shared intellectual platform on which organizations could test strategies and explore alternative futures. Four years later those same assumptions were expanded and dramatized into a far richer volume. What follows is the story of that landmark book and the framework that made it possible: 2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology is a landmark 500-plus-page work of strategic foresight published in 1997 by Oakhill Press. Authored primarily by Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, and Andy Hines—with intellectual contributions and project leadership elements associated with futurist James Canton—this volume emerged from a multi-year collaborative effort at the Hudson Institute. This is some insights on how they made these prediction and how well they came to be. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele Hide

    ReadMultiplex.com: Did A 1997 Government Funded Report Predict Our Era?

  6. 21 July

    ReadMultiplex.com: Nearly 40% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are Just Gone. AI was trained mostly on the parts of the internet that were easy to monetize..

    They used to say the Internet never forgets. This was a neive lie. It is being erased by negligence and on purpose. Dead Internet Theory Was Not a Prophecy. It Was an Early Warning We Mostly Ignored. Now We Are Raising the Amnesia Generation. The truth is paywalled and the lies are free. Most of the Internet is already gone and some it was the highest quality, high protein data. What is left is a high percentage of only the junk, nihilist, intellectually empty postings on social media, I call Internet sewage. But the beautiful long thought, deep thinking ideas and insight of this epoch built on ephemeral electrons and photons disappears without even the dust old books will decay to. This high protein data was not valued by the version 2 of the Web that favored algorithms, short performative quips, so it decayed to not even a pst memory. We are forgetting fast and we are losing our actual minds without the elder’s revering wisdom and stories unheard as we atomize into our separate cocoons of AI regulated asylums. Picture this scene. You sit down to understand how ordinary people actually felt during the first two decades of widespread internet use. You want to know what it was like when the network still felt new and open, when strangers argued late into the night about meaning, technology, politics, and whether any of it mattered. You search for the threads, the videos, the personal sites, and the comment sections where real voices spoke without the later layers of performance and optimization. Many of those records are simply gone. Some were deleted during platform changes. Others disappeared when companies decided old content no longer served current business goals. Still more faded through ordinary neglect as domains expired or servers were repurposed. What remains is often incomplete, stripped of surrounding context, or buried under newer layers that were never meant to last. This is not a distant risk. It is happening now. The Internet Archive’s 2026 book Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record lays out the evidence in clear detail. It shows how the shift from physical ownership to temporary digital access, combined with corporate decisions, technical obsolescence, and insufficient public investment in preservation, is creating permanent gaps in our shared memory. The report does not claim every piece of early digital culture was profound. It shows that the full range of human expression from that period, the polished and the raw, the commercial and the personal, is at risk of being lost in ways that earlier analog archiving efforts largely avoided. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: Nearly 40% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are Just Gone. AI was trained mostly on the parts of the internet that were easy to monetize..

  7. 18 July

    ReadMultiplex.com: Prediction Markets AI Model: The AI-Driven Edge and Navigating Uncertainty in the Modern Era.

    The rise of artificial intelligence has afforded a new edge in how markets can be understood. The ability to anticipate and hedge against future outcomes is no longer a luxury, but it is a strategic necessity. Prediction markets stand as one of the most powerful mechanisms humanity has developed for distilling collective intelligence into actionable probabilities. Far from mere gambling, they function as sophisticated information-aggregation engines and risk-management instruments, much like the commodity and futures markets that have underpinned global commerce for centuries. This is not an endorsement of recreational betting. It is a recognition that, in turbulent times, possessing a genuine informational or analytical edge—and the tools to hedge real-world exposures—empowers individuals, businesses, and portfolios to navigate complexity with greater resilience and foresight. Prediction markets, when approached with discipline, data, and purpose, offer precisely that. I am not an investment advisor. I am not supplying investment advice. You should seek the advice of a registered investment advisor. I am also not encoring you to gamble. In fact, this article is to show you there may be other ways to see prediction markets. We live in an era of profound transition the Interregnum between industrial-era certainties and an AI-augmented future of abundance and volatility. Traditional forecasting tools often lag; centralized predictions frequently disappoint. Prediction markets, augmented by rigorous local AI systems, offer a decentralized, incentive-aligned alternative: they force beliefs to confront reality through tradable prices. Having an edge is not about beating the house for thrills. It is about cultivating superior models of reality, identifying mispricings born of incomplete information or behavioral biases, and using that insight to manage risk. Hedging business and technological exposures whether through Tesla-related contracts, AI milestones, or macro indicators provides a form of insurance and optionality in a world where linear projections routinely fail. This is not gambling. It is participation in the most sophisticated collective intelligence mechanism available: markets that reward accuracy and penalize error. In this age of accelerating change, those who develop disciplined edges and prudent hedges position themselves not as passive observers but as active navigators of the future. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele Hide

    ReadMultiplex.com: Prediction Markets AI Model: The AI-Driven Edge and Navigating Uncertainty in the Modern Era.

  8. 17 July

    The Exclusive Brian Roemmele Interview: My Decades Of Brain Research Starting With The Zygon.

    Back in the early ’90s, I took a chance on the Zygon SuperMind and its evolved Learning Machine—devices dismissed by many as glorified scam gadgets with red LEDs flashing through closed eyelids. My Princeton library patent dives and years of personal use proved otherwise: reliable frequency-following responses rooted in Soviet-era neurological research delivered measurable gains in focus, creativity, and memory encoding. That empirical foundation now resonates powerfully with MIT’s 40Hz light therapy breakthroughs for Alzheimer’s. Join me in this 10-minute interview as I weave these threads together, exploring how flashing lights are not just relics of mail-order dreams but practical tools reshaping our understanding of brain plasticity and human potential in the interregnum ahead. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    The Exclusive Brian Roemmele Interview: My Decades Of Brain Research Starting With The Zygon.
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Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology. The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do is write just to fill in space. We will aim to have regular content for the member-only area, This means that if you choose to become a member you are supporting the work of the writers and not an exact number of postings. There will always be free content to be found on the site as well as the X feed.—Brian Roemmele Website: ReadMultiplex.com

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  • Creator
    Brian Roemmele
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    73
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Brian Roemmele, All Rights Reserved.
  • Show Website
    ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.

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