# noumenal.xyz

> Rebecca Millsop (noumenal): philosopher, technologist, builder, consultant, artist. PhD in analytic philosophy (MIT, 2016). Co-building Dyad: the collaboration layer between human-AI pairs.

## Pages

- [About](/about): Full bio, education, selected exhibitions. The through-line: what are the rules, where do they come from, and what do they commit you to?
- [Work](/work): Art, projects, tools. Pen plotting, digital processes, painting. Tagged, not siloed.
- [Writing](/writing): Talks, interviews, fragments. Includes TEDx, Engaged Philosophy, APA features.
- [dyad](/dyad): The collaboration layer between human-AI pairs. Co-built with Joshua Kampa. Focused on shared context, commitments, evidence, authority, boundaries, exceptions, and repair.
- [Noa](/noa): Rebecca's AI agent. They/them. Born February 2026. Thinking partner, operational layer, evidence of the dyad thesis.
- [Now](/now): Current work, reading, thinking.

## Key Facts

- Alias: noumenal (or noum). From Kant's transcendental idealism: the realm of things-in-themselves.
- PhD dissertation: "Precisifying Art Pluralism" — art as complex kind, structural dependency. Chaired by Sally Haslanger.
- Undergraduate: UC Berkeley. Type theory, truth theories, set theory, proof theory. Worked with Paolo Mancosu, Branden Fitelson, John MacFarlane.
- Co-founded Philosophers for Sustainability with Eugene Chislenko. Wrote the APA's Good Practices Guide on sustainability.
- Built the Underrepresented Philosophers Directory (now APA-maintained).
- Advises organizations on AI adoption, learning systems, and the design of experiences that help people understand and work through change.
- Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at Artist Commons.
- Art: pen plotter (HP 7475a), painting, digital processes. Vertical Crypto Art Residency (6th Cohort, 2023). Featured in "Tracing the Line" (Vetro Editions). Collected internationally.

## Contact

- Email: rebecca@rebeccavictoria.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_noumenal/
- X: https://x.com/_noumenal
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-millsop/
- Company: https://withdyad.com