Julia Mirjami

Tune into flow frequency.

Challenge

You have been in flow hundreds of times. Nobody ever told you when. It arrives unannounced, and when it leaves you have no way back — so the best thinking of your week gets filed under luck, mood, or a good night's sleep.

Can artificial intelligence teach us entirely new ways to think? Mind tracker explores how 'synthetic smartness' expands human thinking rather than replacing it.

Solution

AI technology learns your natural mental rhythms and guides you to intentionally enter theta state—that liminal space where creativity, deep focus, and subconscious insight converge. The tracker identifies when you naturally enter this state, then teaches you to recreate those conditions on demand.

Focus

Concept / Synthetic smartness

Tools

Lummi, Midjourney, Figma, Unicorn Studio

What interactions are you portraying?

Difference led by recognition

Concept four cognitive states

Next project

Human-centred AI principles

Tune into flow frequency.

Challenge

You have been in flow hundreds of times. Nobody ever told you when. It arrives unannounced, and when it leaves you have no way back — so the best thinking of your week gets filed under luck, mood, or a good night's sleep.

Can artificial intelligence teach us entirely new ways to think? Mind tracker explores how 'synthetic smartness' expands human thinking rather than replacing it.

Solution

AI technology learns your natural mental rhythms and guides you to intentionally enter theta state—that liminal space where creativity, deep focus, and subconscious insight converge. The tracker identifies when you naturally enter this state, then teaches you to recreate those conditions on demand.

Background

This perspective evolved through customer work, and through Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Kevin Kelly’s books on how minds might extend through technology into new forms of intelligence and interaction, and Peter Godfrey-Smith's research on alternative forms of biological intelligence. The question underneath both: if intelligence takes more shapes than we assumed, so does yours.

Focus

Concept / Synthetic smartness

Tools

Lummi, Midjourney, Figma, Unicorn Studio

What interactions are you portraying?

Difference led by recognition

FORECAST

AI as a utility

Kelly reframed AI as infrastructure, not event — cheap industrial smartness running behind everything, invisible except when it switches off. Everything formerly electrified would now be cognitised.

WIRED · OCT 2014

FIELDWORK

Other minds

Intelligence evolved twice, separately. The octopus arm is partly self and partly agent of its own — as alien a mind as we could hope to encounter, and proof that thinking takes more than one shape.

GODFREY-SMITH · 2016

EXPERIMENT

Computational life

Life as a computational process, emerging from interaction rather than design.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas · ARXIV · 2024

DATA POSTCARDS

Cognitive insights

First BCI-enabled consumer-grade device of its kind, aimed at cognitive health insight and burnout management.

NEURABLE

Concept four cognitive states

ALPHA

relaxed alertness for learning

THETA

deep creative flow

BETA

active focus

Transit

reflect

Next project

Human-centred AI principles

Tune into flow frequency.

Challenge

Can artificial intelligence teach us entirely new ways to think? Mind tracker explores how 'synthetic smartness' expands human thinking rather than replacing it.

Solution

AI technology learns your natural mental rhythms and guides you to intentionally enter theta state—that liminal space where creativity, deep focus, and subconscious insight converge. The tracker identifies when you naturally enter this state, then teaches you to recreate those conditions on demand.

Background

This perspective evolved through customer work, and through Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Kevin Kelly’s books on how minds might extend through technology into new forms of intelligence and interaction, and Peter Godfrey-Smith's research on alternative forms of biological intelligence. The question underneath both: if intelligence takes more shapes than we assumed, so does yours.

Focus

Concept / Synthetic smartness

Tools

Lummi, Midjourney, Figma, Unicorn Studio

What interactions are you portraying?

23 min

to return to an interrupted task

Gloria Mark

10,000

Digital interactions per person per day in 2025, up from 298 in 2010.

KEVIN KELLY · WIRED 2014

2/3

Of an octopus's 500 million neurons sit outside its brain, distributed through the arms.

GODFREY-SMITH · HARVARD GAZETTE

→ $2.4B by 2035

Cognitive-enhancement wearables by 2035

Expert Market Research

Difference led by recognition

FORECAST

AI as a utility

Kelly reframed AI as infrastructure, not event — cheap industrial smartness running behind everything, invisible except when it switches off. Everything formerly electrified would now be cognitised.

WIRED · OCT 2014

FIELDWORK

Other minds

Intelligence evolved twice, separately. The octopus arm is partly self and partly agent of its own — as alien a mind as we could hope to encounter, and proof that thinking takes more than one shape.

GODFREY-SMITH · 2016

EXPERIMENT

Computational life

Life as a computational process, emerging from interaction rather than design.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas · ARXIV · 2024

DATA POSTCARDS

Cognitive insights

First BCI-enabled consumer-grade device of its kind, aimed at cognitive health insight and burnout management.

NEURABLE

talk

Mutual Wave Machine

Nearly 5,000 people have participated in a brain experiment and interactive art installation using a crowdsourced neuroscience

Suzanne Dikker

Concept four cognitive states

ALPHA

relaxed alertness for learning

THETA

deep creative flow

BETA

active focus

Transit

reflect

Next project

Human-centred AI principles

Tune into flow frequency.

Challenge

Can artificial intelligence teach us entirely new ways to think? Mind tracker explores how 'synthetic smartness' expands human thinking rather than replacing it. How to intentionally tap into a flow state when in need.

Solution

AI technology learns your natural mental rhythms and guides you to intentionally enter theta state—that liminal space where creativity, deep focus, and subconscious insight converge. The tracker identifies when you naturally enter this state, then teaches you to recreate those conditions on demand.

Background

This perspective evolved through customer work, and through Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Kevin Kelly’s books on how minds might extend through technology into new forms of intelligence and interaction, and Peter Godfrey-Smith's research on alternative forms of biological intelligence. The question underneath both: if intelligence takes more shapes than we assumed, so does yours.

Focus

Concept / Synthetic smartness

Tools

Lummi, Midjourney, Figma, Unicorn Studio

What interactions are you portraying?

23 min

to return to an interrupted task

Gloria Mark

10,000

Startups would simply take X and add AI. Written in 2014, eight years before ChatGPT.

KEVIN KELLY · WIRED 2014

2/3

Of an octopus's 500 million neurons sit outside its brain, distributed through the arms.

GODFREY-SMITH · HARVARD GAZETTE

→ $2.4B

Cognitive-enhancement wearables by 2035

Expert Market Research

Difference led by recognition

FORECAST

AI as a utility

Kelly reframed AI as infrastructure, not event — cheap industrial smartness running behind everything, invisible except when it switches off. Everything formerly electrified would now be cognitised.

WIRED · OCT 2014

FIELDWORK

Other minds

Intelligence evolved twice, separately. The octopus arm is partly self and partly agent of its own — as alien a mind as we could hope to encounter, and proof that thinking takes more than one shape.

GODFREY-SMITH · 2016

EXPERIMENT

Computational life

Life as a computational process, emerging from interaction rather than design.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas · ARXIV · 2024

DATA POSTCARDS

Cognitive insights

First BCI-enabled consumer-grade device of its kind, aimed at cognitive health insight and burnout management.

NEURABLE

talk

Mutual Wave Machine

Nearly 5,000 people have participated in a brain experiment and interactive art installation using a crowdsourced neuroscience

Suzanne Dikker

Concept four cognitive states

ALPHA

relaxed alertness for learning

THETA

deep creative flow

BETA

active focus

Transit

reflect

Next project

Human-centred AI principles