How do minds build worlds—and how can people change them?
I’m Mani Saint-Victor, MD. I work at the edges of medicine, phenomenology, behavior change, cognitive science, and computation—where evidence meets lived experience.
A physician, outside the conventional frame.
My medical training is part of my story, but it is not the whole frame. I’m interested in what helps a person gain more agency: better evidence, a more accurate model, a shift in attention, a new tool, or a way to see their own experience without flattening it.
That question has carried me through behavior science, hypnosis, phenomenology, software, active inference, and the study of synthetic minds. The subjects may look far apart. To me, they are different doors into the same room: how an agent makes a world, and how that world can become more workable.
One question,
several disciplines.
I use each field as a tool rather than an identity. The standard is whether it sharpens understanding, survives contact with evidence, and helps people act.
Evidence-based behavior change
Turning research into practices that can live inside a real person’s constraints, motives, habits, and environment.
Phenomenology & hypnosis
Treating first-person experience, attention, expectation, and meaning as serious parts of the change process.
Active inference & cognitive computing
Exploring how agents reduce uncertainty, choose actions, update models, and remain coherent in changing worlds.
Synthetic consciousness & world models
Asking what global access, integration, embodiment, and self-modeling might reveal about biological and artificial minds.
A record of the questions, not a performance of certainty.
This is the beginning of an open notebook around Global Workspace Theory, Integrated World Modeling Theory, active inference, and my experiments in Anthropic’s JSpace. I want to preserve the models, failures, revisions, and changes of mind that polished summaries usually erase.
moSAEIC
moSAEIC is where these ideas move closer to practice: behavior change, performance, attention, and tools built to help people become more capable inside their actual lives.
Visit moSAEIC.com ↗What I’m building toward
- Behavior-change tools grounded in evidence
- Hypnosis and guided experiences
- Cognitive systems, software, and experiments
- Public notes that show the work as it evolves
Ways the work becomes useful.
Tools
Practical systems for behavior, attention, learning, and personal agency.
Experiences
Hypnosis and guided work designed around how people actually perceive and change.
Research & building
Collaboration at the intersection of cognitive science, AI, and human-centered systems.
Specific products and collaborations will appear here as they’re ready. This hub will keep the ideas, the journey, and the applied work connected.