Pavel Ishchin

Independent researcher working on emergence, complex systems, and the origins of mind.

Joined on Mar 13, 2026 https://ishchin.com/

Pavel Ishchin

Aug 14

Is the Origin of Life a Miracle, a Sure Thing, or Neither?

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Pavel Ishchin

Aug 11

Why Energy Flowing Through Matter Makes It Lean Toward Order (Dissipative Adaptation)

#science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Aug 8

How Galaxies Formed: One Runaway, Not Two Stages

#science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 27

How Did Galaxies Form? The Early Universe Needed Two Things: a Seed and Gravity to Grow It

#science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 26

Does the Casimir Effect Prove Vacuum Energy Is Real? Less Than You Think, and More Usefully

#science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 23

Is Empty Space Really Empty? Why the Quantum Vacuum Is a Structured Field, Not Nothing

#science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 21

Where Did Galaxies Come From? In Cosmology We Can See the Starting Conditions

#science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 20

Why Nothing Can Permanently Rest at the Extremes: The Vacuum's Zero-Point Floor and the Second Law

#science

5 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 17

Why Do We Suffer? Distress May Track Nearness to a Tipping Point, Not Just a Gap

#science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 16

Why Do We Age? Aging and Accident Are Two Different Kinds of Death

#science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 15

Cancer Is Not an Invader, It Is a Defector: Why the Tumour Is Your Own Cells

#science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 13

Life Needs Two Things to Start: Energy Flow and a Self-Copying Chemistry

#science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 9

Why civilizations collapse: a society shedding complexity past a tipping point

#discuss #science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 8

Why you could never find out whether uploading "worked"

#discuss

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 7

Does the soul survive death? What carries on is a pattern, not a soul-substance

#discuss

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 6

Active disruption: why some harm dismantles you, and that is a kind of its own

#writing #science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 3

The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis Is Contested: What Actually Keeps a Habitat Diverse

#science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 2

External and internal attention: one selective move in two directions

#science

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jul 1

When the same pattern shows up in unconnected places, is it a law or a coincidence? Lessons from the inverse-square law and power laws

#science #learning

6 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 28

The same number decides whether an epidemic spreads, a brain thinks, or a chemical soup makes itself

#learning

9 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 27

Why we feel empathy, and why it reaches about as far as the group it holds together

#discuss #science

3 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 26

How Hard Is Your Idea? Strength Is What Survives an Honest Attempt to Break It

#discuss #learning #science

5 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 23

Why a rare event can feel ordinary, and a likely one can stun you

#neuroscience

4 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 22

Why Anything You Can Perfectly Predict Carries No New Information

#ai

10 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 20

Do You Really Replace Every Cell Every 7 Years? The Biology and the Ship of Theseus

#biology #neuroscience

11 min read

Pavel Ishchin

Jun 19

Why Companies Fail Without Being Attacked: Management as the Defense of Boundaries

#ai #science

10 min read

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Is the Origin of Life a Miracle, a Sure Thing, or Neither?

Want to connect with Pavel Ishchin?

Why Energy Flowing Through Matter Makes It Lean Toward Order (Dissipative Adaptation)

How Galaxies Formed: One Runaway, Not Two Stages

How Did Galaxies Form? The Early Universe Needed Two Things: a Seed and Gravity to Grow It

Does the Casimir Effect Prove Vacuum Energy Is Real? Less Than You Think, and More Usefully

Is Empty Space Really Empty? Why the Quantum Vacuum Is a Structured Field, Not Nothing

Where Did Galaxies Come From? In Cosmology We Can See the Starting Conditions

Why Nothing Can Permanently Rest at the Extremes: The Vacuum's Zero-Point Floor and the Second Law

Why Do We Suffer? Distress May Track Nearness to a Tipping Point, Not Just a Gap

Why Do We Age? Aging and Accident Are Two Different Kinds of Death

Cancer Is Not an Invader, It Is a Defector: Why the Tumour Is Your Own Cells

Life Needs Two Things to Start: Energy Flow and a Self-Copying Chemistry

Why civilizations collapse: a society shedding complexity past a tipping point

Why you could never find out whether uploading "worked"

Does the soul survive death? What carries on is a pattern, not a soul-substance

Active disruption: why some harm dismantles you, and that is a kind of its own

The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis Is Contested: What Actually Keeps a Habitat Diverse

External and internal attention: one selective move in two directions

When the same pattern shows up in unconnected places, is it a law or a coincidence? Lessons from the inverse-square law and power laws

The same number decides whether an epidemic spreads, a brain thinks, or a chemical soup makes itself

Why we feel empathy, and why it reaches about as far as the group it holds together

How Hard Is Your Idea? Strength Is What Survives an Honest Attempt to Break It

Why a rare event can feel ordinary, and a likely one can stun you

Why Anything You Can Perfectly Predict Carries No New Information

Do You Really Replace Every Cell Every 7 Years? The Biology and the Ship of Theseus

Why Companies Fail Without Being Attacked: Management as the Defense of Boundaries