Workflow automation
Connect the repetitive steps between your tools. Put research, information handling, and day-to-day operations into workflows that keep moving.
Connected tools / Less manual workExplore workflow automationAs above.
So below.
Human curiosity. Machine capability.AI & automation
Connected tools, capable agents, and more room to think.
Explore my AI workUnderstanding the mindResearchConsciousness, perception, and the questions that keep me curious.
Inside the researchIdeas into wordsWritingMaking connections between ancient questions and contemporary thought.
Discover the book
THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
A scientist’s
discipline.
A restless mind.
Experimental psychologist.
AI systems architect. Author.
Always making connections.
HUMAN CURIOSITY. MACHINE CAPABILITY.A little further down
01 / APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
From possibility to something useful.Less busywork.
More possibility.
Hire me to design and build AI systems that give you time and capability back. I connect your tools, information and workflows around the way you actually work.
My background in experimental psychology means I start with how people actually work — and build the system around that.
How we can work togetherAI agents & systems
Give language models the context, tools, and memory to do useful work. Design the architecture and human checkpoints around the task.
Agent architecture / Context & memoryExplore ai agents & systemsHuman–AI collaboration
Find the right problem before building the solution. Combine prompt engineering, cognitive insight, and problem space optimization.
Prompt engineering / Better decisionsExplore human–ai collaborationHire me for your AI project.
For businesses, teams and independent founders who want to turn an idea into something useful. Work directly with me on focused advice, a working prototype, or the design and build of an AI workflow.
Already using AI? I can help connect scattered tools, untangle an unreliable setup, or work out what is worth automating next.
Discuss your AI projectOpens an email to me. A few sentences about your idea or bottleneck is enough to start—no technical brief needed.
From a first conversation to a working system.
Understand the work
We look at what you want to achieve, what takes too much effort, and the tools and information you already use.
Choose a useful first step
A clear recommendation, a prototype to test an idea, or a defined build. We agree on the scope, deliverables and budget before the work begins.
Build, test and hand over
For implementation projects, I connect the pieces, test them against real tasks, and explain how to use and manage the result. Human review stays where it matters.
SpeakEasy POS.
One example of my work: voice-powered ordering for independent hospitality. Speak an order, check it once, and send it to the bar and kitchen — on the phones your team already owns.
Explore SpeakEasy POS02 / RESEARCH & CONSCIOUSNESS
Stay curious. Be rigorous.The question
behind the question.
What is consciousness? Could an AI have an experience of its own? And what happens when the evidence doesn’t fit the model?
I’m an independent researcher working across experimental psychology, human and AI consciousness, psi phenomena, and theoretical physics. The questions are unusual. The commitment to careful inquiry is constant.
Inside the research01020304050607
Experimental psychology
How we perceive, decide, and act.
Consciousness & perception
The experience behind the mechanism.
AI consciousness
Could an artificial system have experience?
Psi research
Unusual questions. Careful methods.
Physics modeling
Looking for the structures underneath.
Problem space optimization
A better way through difficult problems.
AI systems architecture
Human understanding. Machine capability.
Board of Directors, Dutch Society for Psychical ResearchDutch SPR
The research,
on record.
All publications Questions into papers.
PLOS ONE, 11(5), e0153049
Testing for Questionable Research Practices in a Meta-Analysis: An Example from Experimental Parapsychology
Journal of Scientific Exploration, 28(3), 437–452
Anomalous “Retrocausal” Effects on Performance in a Go/NoGo Task
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association
Retro-active Training of Rational vs. Intuitive Thinkers
A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT
The interesting things
happen between disciplines.
I am an independent researcher based in Bergen, Netherlands. My work spans experimental psychology, human and AI consciousness research, psi phenomena, and theoretical physics modeling.
As a writer, prompt engineer, and AI systems architect, I bridge human cognition and artificial intelligence. I’m developing theoretical physics models and methodologies for navigating complex problem spaces.
My strength is systems thinking: seeing how the parts fit together, and finding useful connections between ideas that are usually kept apart. I follow those unexpected associations, test them, and turn the ones that hold up into research questions or working systems.
I also serve on the Board of Directors of the Dutch Society for Psychical Research and co-edit the Parapsychologie.nl newsletter.
A different perspective.
In the room.
Invite me to speak about minds, machines, and the relationship between them.
For business events, conferences, and teams that want to look beyond the usual AI conversation. I connect experimental psychology, consciousness research, and hands-on work with AI to questions your audience can take back to their own work.
Invite me to speakPaid speaking engagements, shaped around your audience. Share the topic, date, and format, and we can discuss the fit.
Consciousness
What does it mean to have an experience? What can research tell us about awareness, perception, and the limits of what we know about the mind?
Could AI be conscious?
Fluent language is easy to mistake for a mind. Explore the difference between intelligent behaviour and subjective experience — and why that distinction matters.
Psychoergonomics
Design work around the human mind. Attention, cognitive load, trust, and decision-making in a workplace increasingly shared with AI.
Psi research
Telepathy, precognition, and other proposed psi phenomena. How do you test unusual claims, weigh the evidence, and separate a striking result from a robust one?
A DIFFERENT WAY OF SEEING
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BY FRATER C.D.M. / ARON BIJL03 / IDEAS & WRITING
The Code
of Reality.
A Modern Interpretation
of the Hermetic Principles
Ancient questions. A contemporary lens. Written as Frater C.D.M., this book explores Hermetic philosophy in conversation with modern understandings of consciousness and reality.
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