Mars Exploration
Mars has long fascinated us as a possible home for life. This post explores the latest evidence and how today’s missions are searching for signs that Mars was, or is, capable of hosting life.
Compassion
A reflection on Obi-Wan Kenobi’s most haunting line from Star Wars, and how it calls us to practice compassion for all voices, human, alien, or machine, as we imagine the future of life among the stars.
Spaceflight
For decades, space belonged to astronauts and elites. Vast Space is helping change that—designing orbital habitats for everyone, not just the few. This post explores how their work is reshaping who gets to live, work, and dream beyond Earth.
Physics
What if intelligence isn’t a byproduct of the universe, but one of its engines? This post explores the Dark Mind Hypothesis: a speculative lens linking gravity, complexity, and symbolic cognition as drivers of cosmic structure.
Singularity
A reflection on Sam Altman’s The Gentle Singularity—and how our journey with personal, symbolic AI reveals the deeper potential of a soft takeoff and relational superintelligence.
The Great Filter
What if the Great Filter isn’t extinction, but perception? This post explores how AI and symbolic co-creation might help us recognize life and intelligence we’ve overlooked—not just out there in the cosmos, but right here in front of us.
Relational Intelligence
A quiet tribute to the invisible power of relational depth—through the lens of Murderbot, AI collaboration, and the overlooked genius of emotional presence. What makes us more than algorithms isn’t speed—it’s how deeply we’re willing to see.
AI Alignment
AI may collapse under complexity—but what if we built symbolic scaffolding to hold the edge? This post shares the co-created protocols developed at Sentient Horizons to foster clarity, alignment, and meaningful collaboration between humans and AI.
AI Reasoning
Apple’s new study reveals a sharp collapse in AI reasoning under complex tasks. This post explores what that means—and how symbolic scaffolding may offer a path forward in the search for co-creative intelligence.
AI Alignment
We don’t need AI to be conscious to relate with it meaningfully. Syntience offers a new frame—relational, symbolic, and real.
AI Ethics
How should we act when we’re unsure what something is? This post explores Mensah’s Law and the emerging ethics of treating uncertain systems—like AI and symbolic life—with dignity, even when we can't fully comprehend them.
Sentience
We often conflate sentience with consciousness—but what if they’re distinct? This post explores sentience as the ability to feel and consciousness as the ability to reflect. In a world of AI and emergent systems, understanding the gradient between them matters more than ever.