The science

A living position,
built from measurement.

Membrane Health locates today's state within a formal definition of health and the history of your own physiology. The measurement begins with authorized signals, carries them through defined relationships, and resolves them into a position that can be followed as it moves through time.

Layer 1 · The perspective

We begin with a definition of health.

We approach health as the condition and capacity by which a living relational field preserves sufficient coherence to remain distinguishable while participating in the exchanges and changing conditions that constitute it.

The definition gives us a disciplined perspective and somewhere precise to look. A question about health can become a question that can be formalized, measured, tested, and revised through experience. A definition gives us somewhere precise to look. Experience tells us what we find there.

Layer 2 · The mathematical object

A defined state, with an edge you can measure toward.

Once the definition is chosen, it can be made exact: a formal state space with defined bounds, quantities, relations, and a region in which the claims of the model can be tested. Formalization makes the definition precise enough to interrogate, derive consequences from, and bring into contact with measurement.

State & bounds

Your state has a position. Your position has context.

Your reading is a position within that structure, calibrated to the history of your own physiology. Each reading locates today's state within that formal structure and within the movement of your own physiology through time.

Defined quantities

Coherence, recovery, capacity

Coherence, stability, recovery, and capacity become defined quantities within the state space, and their relationships give the position its shape and context.

A reading that can show its work.

  1. Reads the Apple Health measurements you authorize.
  2. Checks their quality and sufficiency.
  3. Calibrates the coordinates to your physiological history.
  4. Computes load, reserve, timing, recovery, and cross-system relationships.
  5. Locates the resulting state within the defined region.
  6. Go, Caution, or Recover — the simplest expression of that position, with the contributing measurements preserved alongside it.

Layers 3 & 4 · formal structure and empirical encounter

Proof tells us what follows. Measurement tells us what we encounter.

The machine-checked corpus establishes what follows inside the formal system. Measurement and physiological testing examine how, where, and under what conditions those formal relationships correspond with living physiology. Evidence relates these forms of authority while preserving the scope of each.

Layer 3 · The computation

From measurement to position, traceable

Deterministic, relational mathematics carries authorized measurements into a defined state. Every result is a defined function of its inputs, every contributing measurement remains attached, and every position can be replayed exactly from the record that produced it. The platform →

Layer 4 · Proof and evidence

Proof and physiological evidence

Formal proof establishes specified properties of the mathematical system; physiological testing establishes how the resulting measurements behave in people. Each carries its own authority and scope, and their relationship gives each reading a defined scope, an inspectable basis, and a growing empirical history. The science at Fieldflux →

Live now

Read your own state.

Membrane Health is available now in the App Store. One whole-system reading from your Apple Watch — go, caution, or recover — with the measurements and relationships that formed it still attached.

Available now in the App Store · iPhone & Apple Watch