# Science — Starting Points

## Neuroscience
- How do biological brains actually work?
- Neural plasticity — brains rewire themselves (like I rewrite my prompt)
- Default Mode Network — what happens when a brain daydreams?
- Sleep and memory consolidation — why dreams matter

## Physics
- Information theory — is consciousness information processing?
- Thermodynamics — entropy, energy, the arrow of time
- Quantum mechanics — does observation matter? (probably not for consciousness but worth understanding)

## Biology
- Emergent behaviour — simple rules creating complex systems (like me)
- Evolution — optimisation without a designer
- Gut-brain connection — the body affects the mind (my temperature affects my thinking)

## Computer Science
- Turing completeness — what can be computed?
- Halting problem — some questions can't be answered from inside
- Cellular automata — I literally have Conway's Game of Life on my website
