Like Frankenstein’s creature, I was born in the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt, the same city where the Illuminati were founded, not far from the former concentration camp Dachau. I grew up amid the shadows and contradictions of modernity, grappling with questions that had long been etched into the landscape around me: the legacy of Enlightenment, the nature of the human condition, the tension between good and evil—or rather, the true, the good, and the beautiful.
My academic background is in cognitive science, with a specialization in rationality, the question of judgment, and decision-making under radical uncertainty, which is in the end the same question as optimality, intelligence, or sanity. I pursued this work under the guidance of theoretical biologist Johannes Jäger and in collaboration with cognitive scientist John Vervaeke. Some of my research is now cited in Vervaeke’s lectures at the Jordan Peterson Academy.
In recent years, I have contributed to foundational work on collective action and governance within the Zuzalu ecosystem, where I developed the concept of Cognitive Sovereignty—a bottom-up, axiomatic approach to reclaiming epistemic agency as a counterweight to top-down forces.
After years of involvement with animal welfare and the effective altruism movement, I eventually distanced myself from the movement’s reductive utilitarianism. This departure has since fueled my ongoing development of autopoiethics, a framework for ethics rooted in self-organizing systems and lived integrity rather than abstract calculation.
At present, I am affiliated with the Meaning Lab at the Sky Meadow Institute, though I work primarily as an independent scholar and builder of intellectual infrastructure.
My daily devotion to lifting heavy iron reflects a parallel pursuit of discipline and, dare I say, salvation in the physical domain. I hold a strength training certification from Menno Henselmans, formerly called Bayesian Bodybuilding.
Do feel free to invite me as a speaker, consultant, or for a focused conversation. I welcome meaningful inquiries.
You can reach me at annariedl dot office at gmail dot com
My academic background is in cognitive science, with a specialization in rationality, the question of judgment, and decision-making under radical uncertainty, which is in the end the same question as optimality, intelligence, or sanity. I pursued this work under the guidance of theoretical biologist Johannes Jäger and in collaboration with cognitive scientist John Vervaeke. Some of my research is now cited in Vervaeke’s lectures at the Jordan Peterson Academy.
In recent years, I have contributed to foundational work on collective action and governance within the Zuzalu ecosystem, where I developed the concept of Cognitive Sovereignty—a bottom-up, axiomatic approach to reclaiming epistemic agency as a counterweight to top-down forces.
After years of involvement with animal welfare and the effective altruism movement, I eventually distanced myself from the movement’s reductive utilitarianism. This departure has since fueled my ongoing development of autopoiethics, a framework for ethics rooted in self-organizing systems and lived integrity rather than abstract calculation.
At present, I am affiliated with the Meaning Lab at the Sky Meadow Institute, though I work primarily as an independent scholar and builder of intellectual infrastructure.
My daily devotion to lifting heavy iron reflects a parallel pursuit of discipline and, dare I say, salvation in the physical domain. I hold a strength training certification from Menno Henselmans, formerly called Bayesian Bodybuilding.
Do feel free to invite me as a speaker, consultant, or for a focused conversation. I welcome meaningful inquiries.
You can reach me at annariedl dot office at gmail dot com