Neuroscience · computation · complexity · writing
A public surface for distilled thinking across brains, systems, intelligence, and reality.
This website is the public surface of a deeper private knowledge architecture: a place where selected ideas are compressed, refined, and made shareable through essays, research paths, visual explanations, conceptual notes, and, eventually, interactive scientific material.
Private second brain = laboratory of thinking.
Website = public crystallization of thinking.
I am Alberto Gatti — a medical doctor and final-year neurology resident. But my relationship with medicine has always been unusual: I did not choose it primarily because I identified with the clinical role, but because I wanted to understand the nervous system from the inside of biology, disease, pharmacology, and human experience.
Over time, that interest has moved increasingly toward the foundations: basic neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neuromorphic computing, mathematics, complex systems, and the scientific study of cognition and intelligence. My clinical training remains important, but mainly as a biological and phenomenological anchor — a way to keep abstract models connected to real nervous systems, real constraints, and real human function.
This website is the public surface of a deeper private knowledge architecture. It is not a raw archive of notes. It is where selected ideas are compressed, refined, and made shareable: essays, conceptual maps, research paths, visual explanations, experiments, and eventually interactive scientific material.
Alongside neuroscience and computation, I am also interested in cognitive optimization, learning systems, pharmacodynamics, supplementation, health, singing, and the construction of a rich, biologically grounded lifestyle. I am equally drawn to deeper existential questions — consciousness, identity, time, death, meaning, intelligence, and our place in the structure of reality — approached not through vague abstraction, but through the conceptual discipline of physics, mathematics, neuroscience, and complex systems.
These interests are not separate from the central project. They are different faces of the same investigation: how do brains, bodies, minds, machines, and cultures emerge, adapt, learn, suffer, create, and sometimes become more intelligent?
Research
Distilled research notes on neuroscience, criticality, neuromorphic computing, and computational models.
Papers
Structured comments on papers, ideas, methods, and scientific arguments that shape my research path.
Marginalia
Shorter comments on books, passages, lectures, videos, and ideas that I want to preserve while thinking.
Publications
My papers, manuscripts, preprints, academic outputs, and research-facing work.
Notes
Compressed conceptual explanations extracted from a deeper private second brain.
Essays
Longer reflections across science, cognition, culture, literature, and human behavior.
Visual Lab
A future space for mathematical art, interactive diagrams, simulations, and visual explanations.
Timeline
A compressed map from cosmic history to human history, culture, science, technology, and possible futures.
Current direction
From private knowledge work to public intellectual artifacts.
The first version of this website should remain small, rigorous, and architecturally clear. Over time it will grow into a home for research notes, conceptual essays, reading syntheses, commented papers, marginalia on books and ideas, publications, visual explanations, mathematical art, and interactive scientific explorations.